Want to see some pictures to really make you appreciate modern medical technology?
Check out these historical photos from the Library of Congress’s pilot program on Flickr. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the LOC put up a large variety of old photos with no known copyright restrictions so Flickr users could tag and share and hopefully contribute some meaningful information about the people and places in them.
Click on any of the captions below to go to the original Flickr page, and you can search or browse within the entire LOC collection. Maybe you’ll even recognize something. I did, and using Flickr starts feeling very surreal when it takes place in the realm of the historical record.
Go try labeling some history today–you’ll see what I mean.
Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill.
Reviving mine victims
This one’s my favorite, I think. Check out the emergency medical equipment to the left. What is that, exactly? Advanced for its own time, I’m sure, but in light of what medical devices look like in 2008 it’s sort of frightening.
This is way cool. I love stuff like this!
Me, too, and the whole collection is fascinating. I hope they add more (I think they are.)