Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Historic Medical Video Archive Blossoming on Youtube

Filed under: Net News , the good old days...

The Wellcome Trust recently setup a YouTube channel of historic medical videos, and the collection already has over 250 uploads. Medicine has been one of the most quickly developing sciences lately, and it is absolutely fascinating to see what it looked like throughout the last century. Here are a couple videos to get you started:

British blood transfusion service operations during WWII (1941):

Radical amputation (mastectomy) of the left breast (1930):

Link: Wellcome Film on Youtube...

(hat tip: ScienceRoll)

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