We found out you can heal people by stabing their brain with a piece of steel

by Helpwithmyname

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  1. We found out bones were getting in the way of the bits we wanted to touch so we invented the chainsaw.

    We did a few other things, here and there.

  3. Paulescu invented insulin but his political opinions were a little too based so he didn’t share the nobel prize

  6. Francis Rynd in Dublin made the hypodermic needle to help the Scots enjoy drugs.

  12. Robert Liston

    “the fastest knife in the West End. He could amputate a leg in 21⁄2 minutes.”

  14. We invented disposable syringes and epidural anesthesia and discovered neurons.

  16. Why is it that back in the day people would die from a scratch but were so eager to stick pointy objects into their brain for no apparent reason.

    I think I read something about Egyptians drilling holes into people’s skulls to cure sinus congestion. Like I get sinus headaches too sometimes and they suck but damn.

  18. Antibiotics

    At last, a cure for the French disease, if not the French themselves

  19. Opioids and the contraceptive pill were invented in Belgium. Mix in a few of our beers and you never have to have sober sex ever again.

  20. Invented the vaccine for typhus and polio, discovered vitamins, discovered adrenaline

  22. Something about measuring skulls and stuff. Nothing important 🤷🏼‍♀️

  24. Some fellas figured out if you drink enough whiskey then problems go away so that’s our contribution sorted

  26. The idea of medicine as a whole, I find it funny when people take the Hippocratic oath and live on the other side of the planet and never have heard of the guy.

  27. Semmelweis discovered that disinfecting your hands after playing with the dead and/or fatally ill before you fiddle around a birthing woman’s vulva was a rather splendid idea.

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