Images from The Illustrated Family Doctor, London, 1935. I love these pictures, I find them both quaint and poetic. And they make me think of the work of the Belgian artist Michael Borremans, which is always a bonus.
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Ohh... these are absolutely brilliant Sandra. Love love love!
Whoa! They're brilliant! Slightly sinister in some cases though. What's with the kiddies in the steel vats? It's all a bit City of Lost Children to my mind. And the posture pic has made me sit up straight! jxx
I thoroughly enjoyed this post. I'm just so fascinated with old timey medicine in all it's forms. What is he up to with that rod, I wonder? Reminds me of my Dad's wonderfully creepy old D.I.Y dentistry books.
Amazing pictures... and so is Michael Borreman's work!
I'm so glad that you all like them -- I like them more every time I look at them; I think they're remarkable. And I purposely left any explanations out so that the images could speak on their own.
Jen, the kids in the vats are having muscular therapy, poor loves. Yes, I agree it does look really strange.
Rigel -- that rod is for electric shock therapy.
Medicine was clearly pretty advanced in the 1930's but I am pretty happy that it has gone alot further since!
Slightly sinister is indeed what this era (and earlier) was all about, I loved researching this type of stuff when i was studying sculpture in uni (go figure!). As Rigel said, her Dad's DIY dentistry books were in the same zone... did you say DIY???!!! Yee-oww. But as creepy as they are, they're fascinating.
Me too, I find this stuff irresistible. Vicarious pleasure, knowing that we are in safer hands in 2010 -- we hope?
Hmmm...my father, having been an army dental assistant in the early 1960's, has been known to trim his front teeth using a file, and I don't mean the sort that you keep paper in.
Hooly dooly... I guess that's one way of doing it! In safer hands in 2010?... I think it's just all got very very tiny.
Safer today! Well I got some stories I could tell....
Thanks SE for all your great comments on my blog... and yes you will have to come to Sleeping Beauties on the 4th!! SW
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