With the miracles of modern medicine and medical equipment, we can transplant an organ, and the patient doesn’t feel anything during the procedure. However, this was not possible before; for some patients, the cure was often as harrowing as the disease. Even when the development of new drugs and early days of surges and operations, they were not as effective and painless as they are now. The treatment was expensive and patients were not treated properly; some diseases were incurable and the patients suffered until death.

These photographs depict the horrible procedures of treatment, terrifying medical instruments, and haunting conditions of hospitals from the past.