Fascinating pictures from America's oldest public hospital show how far treatment has come in just 60 years

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The weird and wonderful world of 'modern' medicine: Fascinating pictures from America's oldest public hospital show how far treatment has come in just 60 years

• Bellevue on First Avenue in Manhattan, New York first opened its doors in 1736

Healing waters: Patients are lowered into the rehabilitation pool at Bellevue Hospital on 1st Avenue in Manhattan by nurses

 

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Standard procedure: An elderly man is strapped in and rotated in a large circular contraption at the New York hospital

 

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Spin cycle: A student nurse massages the old man's knee as his therapy session sees him being rotated through 360 degrees until he is upright

 

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On the mend: A young boy with polio adjusts his leg braces in a wheelchair (while patient Helen Feldman carries out gait coordination training

 

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Talk therapy: Three men are pictured deep in conversation during mealtime on the rehabilitation ward at Bellevue. The man in the wheelchair (left) is an amputee

 

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Duty of care: The wards at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan teem with patients as the medical center pledged to look after anyone regardless of where they came from or their ability to pay

 

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Pioneers: Bellevue Hospital was known for its pioneering techniques and producing some of the finest doctors and nurses in America with its training

 

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So this is what Obamacare will look like. Thanks Beets

 

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Thanks! It's interesting to know

 

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