Medical history is fascinating. I find the fact that substances like cocaine and heroin were used as treatments particularly interesting. I would love to have a vintage bottle of one (empty of course). Also interesting are the old diagrams they used to show medical information. They become even more fascinating when it looks like aliens, and it’s about gynecological exercises.
Yes, aliens.
The Public Domain Review discovered the book, Die Heilgymnastik in der Gynaekologie: und die mechanische Behandlung von Erkrankungen des Uterus und seiner Adnexe nach Thure Brandt and found it contains a fascinating set of diagrams. For those who can’t read German, the title is translated to read, “The physiotherapy in gynecology and the mechanical treatment of diseases of the uterus and its appendages by Thure Brandt.”
That’s not the interesting part. The fact that the hand-drawn diagrams look more like aliens than human beings is the remarkable part They resemble the stereotypical alien given to us by popular sci-fi culture – the grey alien. The Public Domain Review makes the assumption that it was an attempt to “de-sexualize the images.”
Coincidence? I think not. What if this is a document given to us by our ancestors to help further the progress made in women’s health? If our alien ancestors tampered with our DNA and mixed their own foreign genetics with ours, it would make sense they would give us a document drawn as such. Is such a thing even possible?
Yes, it is.
I’ll stop now. Check out images of the diagrams below!
Images and featured image used available in the public domain at the Internet Archive.
H/t: Public Domain Review and Boing Boing.