Already in the first half of the 20th century in the hospitals and clinics have begun to actively implement a variety of instruments that were to become an integral part of the diagnostic and treatment process.
Scientists and doctors have experimented with different, sometimes very strange medical devices and instruments, which sometimes look intimidating and even now can lead to horror ordinary patient. Judge for yourself:
Preceded by positron emission tomography, developed by the Department of Instrumentation at Brookhaven National Laboratory, studying the brain.
Increased human eye model, which is controlled by two small motorchikami. Was created by researchers of aviation medicine.
Personal pressure chamber Winston Churchill, in which he could make flights at high altitude in complete safety.
Three plastic dummy filled with a solution of sodium chloride, which are used to measure the level of radioactivity.
Armchair for electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of psychoneuroses the officers of the First World War.
Artificial kidney (1950).
Toy horse for X-ray images of children.
A device for stimulation of blood circulation in the legs.
Chemist Wright Lenhem laboratory of Los Alamos with a plastic dummy, which he used for experiments to measure the effects of radiation on humans.
Electroretinogram: This medical device was developed to measure the electrical potential of the retina.
The woman inside the electric bath at the Institute of Light Care (1900).
The first electrocardiograph, presented by Cambridge Scientific Instruments.
A woman in a mask during a flu epidemic that broke out after the First World War (1919).
Children around the UV lamp at the Institute for radiotherapy.
Measurement of brain activity using an electroencephalograph (1940).
Portable respirator, or "iron lungs", designed for ambulatory patients (1955).
Dr. G. Byford stands under optokinetic drum, wearing lenses with miniature bulbs, during the experiment to study the reflex eye movements and their relationship with visual illusions in the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Farnborough (1960).
This costume of the wires is designed to measure body temperature when exposed to high speeds during space flight (1960).
Installation for cobalt cancer therapy revolving around the patient (1955).
The doctor adjusts the path of the beam X-ray machine in the 2 million volts for deep therapy used to treat cancer patients in the hospital Francis Delafield in New York.
Cobalt irradiation "bomb" in a Paris clinic.
Medical device installed in 1955 in a hospital in Oak Ridge, use sources of radioactive cesium-137 to destroy diseased tissue, emitting a maximum dose of radiation to the malignant area and minimizing the impact on healthy tissues.
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