The Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 saw tens of thousands of people visit the city to view the fantastical exhibitions. With so many people packed in next to the latest (and not extremely safe) technologies, there were plenty of accidents and injuries. The fair’s ambulances superintended by a doctor named Gentles were constantly delivering bruised, bloody, and overheated visitors to the exposition hospital. Over the life of the fair the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day! Some of the funnier concerns treated included:
- 820 cases of diarrhea;
- 154, constipation;
- 21, hemorrhoids;
- 434, indigestion;
- 365, foreign bodies in the eyes;
- 364, severe headaches;
- 594 episodes of fainting, syncope (drop in blood pressure), and exhaustion;
- 1 case of extreme flatulence;
- and 169 involving teeth that hurt like hell
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