Terrifying Old School Medical Tools That’ll Have You Relieved to Live in the 21st Century

Trepanation Kit

These devices from 1771 were used in order to stop epileptic seizures under the claim of ‘letting the demons out.’ This was quite problematic as it sometimes causes more issues such as personality and other medical issues to arise, but it was popular for quite some time. Neurosurgeons use a higher form of it today as a craniotomy.

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