Quote Originally Posted by SAnd View Post
Not much talk of medical stuff.

Blood pressure gauges that manually operated and used a mercury column.

Eye exams where they used a funny an eyeglasses frame and a rack with a gazillion different lenses to try out. The eye doctor looked into your eye with a simple magnifying glass and a light reflector. When he dilated your eyes it took most of a day to get back to normal. Eye pressure measured with a plunger on a gauge that actually touched your eye.

Eye glasses that were actually glass and all bifocal/trifocals had lines in the lenses.

Injection Needles were routinely bigger diameter than now. I seems like a LOT bigger.

Mercury medical thermometers that you stuck under your tongue or up you bum (rectal).

Blood and other test results that sometimes took weeks to come back.

X rays that had be developed and could take several days to get back if they weren?t high priority. And it was the only imaging available.

Non scope type surgeries with the long incision scars and the much longer recovery and hospital stays that were needed with them.

Sutures / stitches that were actual sewing type stitches with thread or animal lines.

I guess some of these aren't that uncommon but things sure have changed.
I believe all of these are still in use at Air Force Clinics and Hospitals.