Doctors Used Questionable Equipment And Gadgets To Cure Patients
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By YEET MAGAZINE | Updated 1408 GMT (2208 HKT) September 29, 2021
These widespread practices in the Wild West show how wild the times really were
Questionable gadgets
In addition to the treatment of charlatans, the doctors of the American West used equipment of a quality and a effectiveness more than questionable.ADVERTISING
For example, they used a gadget called a pulsometer which was nothing more than a glass container with colored water in it and with bulbs at each end. The patient grabbed the pulsometer to take his pulse, and bubbles rose in the liquid. But what was this device actually measuring? Well, nowadays we can say, quite frankly, that he was measuring absolutely nothing at all.