15 Reasons To Be Glad You Didn't Go To The Hospital In The 1800s

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Your first x-ray would probably be your last.

Used effectively today to diagnose all sorts of problems, the initial x-rays pioneered in the 1890s weren’t as fine-tuned as the ones in modern medicine. Remember that “radiology” is connected to “radiation.” While they produced exceptionally clear images for the time, they also caused hair to fall out and blisters, and many patients later got cancer.

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