Each year around Halloween, Medical Design & Outsourcing puts together a list of antique medical devices that might make you glad to be alive today. Historically, medical devices could be scary and unorthodox. Surprisingly, some people still thought them helpful until the FDA started preapproving devices in the 1970s. There are a handful of museums in the […]
The Bakken Museum
9 early medical devices that will horrify or amaze you
The movie Frankenstein inspired eight-year-old Earl Bakken to consider how electricity could restore life and health to the human body. Bakken went on to invent the first external cardiac pacemaker and to co-found medtech giant Medtronic in 1949. Bakken’s fascination with the effects of electricity on the human body continued throughout his career, and he amassed a collection of […]