1-Robert Wadlow is the tallest person in history. Wadlow reached 8 feet 11.1 inches in height. He died in 1940 aged 22.
2-Masks worn by doctors during the Plague. The beaks held scented substances.
3-Baby incubator, circa 1900.
4-A woman wearing a flu mask during the flu epidemic after the First World War, 1919 .
5-Frieda Pushnik was born on February 10, 1923 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Although healthy, Frieda was born without arms or legs.
6-“Walter Reed physiotherapy store” 1920s.
7-A woman using an electric inhaling apparatus which produces a medicated fog used in the treatment of colds and influenza, circa 1929.
8-Blood transfusion bottle, England 1978.
9-A young patient getting fit with a respirator in 1955.
10-Neurological exam with electrical device, c. 1884.
11-Electro-convulsive therapy, or electroshock, has a bad reputation, but medically its efficacy is well documented, even if nobody knows how it works.
12-Railroad First Aid demonstration with a Johnson & Johnson First Aid Kit, c. 1800s
13-Taking an x-ray in 1942.
14-The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion, 1945.
15-Pro wrestler Adrienne Nichols demonstrating her fitness routine, 1948.
16-Until the end of the 1920s, when the electric slit lamp became widely available, candlelight was the best bet, 1910
17-Portrait photos of the oldest Native American to have ever lived...
18-Stella Grassman being tattooed in the early 1900s.
19-Photographed in 1880, Myrtle Corbin was born a dipygus having two separately functioning pelvises and four legs.
20-This 3,300-year-old Egyptian stele is thought to depict a polio victim.
Francisco "Frank" Lentini, the 3-legged wonder.A bottle of Harriet Hubbard Ayer’s Moth and Freckle Lotion. Moth was a Victorian term for a facial blemish.
A man trying out a stretching device which claimed to increase height by 2 to 6 inches in 1931.
A miniature lamp cemented to the lens during an experiment to investigate the reflex movements of the eyes and their association with visual illusions.
In Victorian America, death stayed home. When a family member passed away (usually near or at home), two people were called: the doctor and the undertaker. The doctor declared the dead person truly lifeless. Then, the undertaker set up shop in the kitchen or a bedroom to start the embalming process. Ugh!In 1947, Mount Sinai performed the first kidney dialysis in the United States.
In the late 1800s, these devices were sold as artificial eardrums. They were tiny devices that were inserted in the ear in order to resonate sounds throughout the auditory canal and
In the USA between 1939 and 1951, 18,000 lobotomies were performed on veterans, prisoners, rebels-political opponents, and even misbehaving children.
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an English man with very severe face and body deformities who was first exhibited at a freak show as the Elephant Man
Lucy Hobbs Taylor was the first American woman to graduate from dental school, in the 1860s.
Tanning babies at the Chicago Orphan Asylum, 1925, to offset winter rickets.
Woman with an artificial leg, c. 1890-1900.
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