Let's Look At the Gruesome World of Victorian Medicine

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  @KazRowe · 5 years ago · pinned

  Wow, talk about an editing glitch at the end there LOL. Sorry there's no sources scroll. But the sources are listed in the description along with links where applicable!! Sorry about that folks.

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• VO

  @Vox_Rhododendron · 5 years ago

  “I mean, when you think about it, surgery is just stabbing someone to life.” <br>- Liston, probably

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• FA

  @fake-inafakerson8087 · 5 years ago

  Imagine being ready for surgery, waiting in front of a crowd, when some big muscle man walk in and yells &quot;Time me!&quot;

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• JI

  @jimenatierna3408 · 5 years ago

  Liston: “It is of the utmost importance to attend to the state of the patient’s mind and feelings.”<br>Also Liston: <b>Kicks a door open and drags a terrified patient screaming into the operating room to remove a bladder stone.</b>

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  @sunnyquinn3888 · 4 years ago

  Victorian doctors: &quot;Dirty and rotten things cause illness because of the bad smells.&quot;<br><br>Right answer, but wrong reasoning.

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• FR

  @franciscoandrade8588 · 4 years ago

  This helped me understand why medicine developed a &quot;boys club&quot; atmosphere which is still very present in some areas. The hazing, the competitions, the bravado it all sounds like a frat

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• HA

  @hashtagwoke8506 · 5 years ago

  In another timeline instead of Tumblr editing flower crowns on serial killers they were simping for Robert Liston

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• ZI

  @ziizification · 5 years ago

  Obligatory shout-out to my favorite disabled medical icon Thomas Mütter, champion of the poor (he opened a teaching school specifically so poor people would be able to pay for their treatments via admission), early adopter of sedation and sanitization, and one of the first folks who realized that by keeping people in hospital <b>after</b> surgery he could improve outcomes. &nbsp;He also toured freak shows to buy their medical specimens because he thought learning was a better way to honor the dead than spectacle.<br><br>Said collection is now at the Mütter Museum in Philly, and is well worth a visit if you can handle dead things in jars.

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• VI

  @victoriansquirrel · 5 years ago

  The fact that surgery was made into a public spectacle doesn’t surprise me at all! The need to be entertained by whatever means necessary is so typical for the Victorians lol. <br>Also, I love your outfit a lot!!!

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• VI

  @victornoname7269 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact:<br><br>The first successful operation the remove an ovarian tumor was performed in Kentucky in 1809! The guy who did it was named Ephraim McDowell and he&apos;s sometimes called the father of abdominal surgery. It was totally unheard of for someone to survive that kind of surgery at this time. His success was attributed to the fact that he was described as a super neat and clean man. So, you know, he actually washed his hands and stuff. Big props also to the woman who had the tumor, Jane Crawford. She knew that no one had ever survived this kind of procedure before and this was before anesthesia, but she went through with the surgery anyway. It must have been a terrifying situation.<br><br>I grew in Kentucky so we went to McDowell&apos;s house and office, which are now a museum, on a field trip one year. It was a wild thing to learn about Victorian medicine in elementary school. I still vividly remember them describing to us how he had to drain the goop out of the tumor to remove it and how he actually washed her intestine in water before putting them back in. Super gross to learn about, but super neat!

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  @lemon_boy_dom6208 · 5 years ago

  &quot;Let&apos;s look at the gruesome world of Victorian medicine&quot;<br><br>Me eating a hot pocket at 2 in the morning: <b>yes</b>

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  @nobodyofimprotance7615 · 5 years ago

  Thank you modern medicine, for being so much better then anything else.

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