I hope that if reincarnation exists, it's done chronologically, ie. i already lived through the period of time where smoke was blown up drowning peoples asses and foreskins were removed with something that appears to be akin to a jagged butter knife.

At some point don't you just go, "uh, look, we CAN operate... but we'll likely fuck you up way, way worse than you are now, dooming you to a slow painful death wrought with infection, madness-inducing fevers, and lockjaw so... are you SURE you want us to pull that tooth? Yes? Ok. LARRY! GRAB ME THE TOOTHCRUSHER, A QUAFF OF URINE, THE MEDIUM PLIERS AND THE GUMRAPER"

TJ S

#8 – 10:46 AM July 7, 2009

Then: devices that look like they were adapted from things found in a tool shed.

Now: laser-wielding robots, with camera tentacles.

Future: swarm of nano-bots crawling through you to individually repair/remove/destroy cells.

Surgery has never been, and never will be, a fun prospect. Unless you're a sadistic surgeon, in which case, surgery = fun + profit.

Halloween Jack

#9 – 1:39 PM July 7, 2009

The worst thing about these isn't so much what they do (although I hate the sight of blood and the very idea of surgery makes me squeamish), but that so many of these were used before the era of antiseptic surgery and effective general anesthesia.

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