Calculating Mean Arterial Pressure the old-fashioned way
Made in 1894 in Vienna, this stunning example of medical quackery was invented by Gustav Gaertner, an Austrian pathologist. Gaertner earned
The prodigious experiment of a hand boiler
It’s amazing, simply by holding the device in your hand, you can make water boil? Is it magic? Actually, this could be used as a very crude
Cocaine anyone?
I HAVE COCAINE AT HOME... Yes indeed, in the HealthWorks Collection are several emergency kits, some of which contain such exotic things as
The man behind the science of blood pressure
This photo has been previously mislabeled as being a photo of Samuel Von Basch, but as Von Basch was born in 1837 and the device on the phot
Everything you wanted to know about Hypertension and never dared to ask.
We all die of a broken heart... The moment that the heart stops beating indicates the end of life. The heart is the most important organ in