Star Trek's hypospray was based on (then 1960s-current) technology.
The device allowed for mass injections without the use of needles.
Real Life Hypospray
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Star Trek's hypospray was based on (then 1960s-current) technology.
The device allowed for mass injections without the use of needles.
That's how I got my first school inoculations when I was a kid...
Worked a treat. Didn't hurt at all.
Worked a treat. Didn't hurt at all.
A pneumatic injector was also shown in The Andromeda Strain (1970).
_The idea was a hundred years old_.
A side note, but you can often guesstimate a person's age in the US by the presence of a scar on the arm. A lot of folks thought it was from the pneumatic injector device, but they were used with the Dryvax smallpox vaccine through 1972 which would cause a localized infection and was the actual source of the scar, even delivered via needle.
Millions of people used to have that nickel-sized vaccination scar, some on the arm and some on the upper thigh. You can spot Shirley MacLaine's thigh scar in a scene from What a Way to Go! (1964).
I have the scar as well—I seem to remember the gun hurting.
This medication is right out of Trek.
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And here--we have a medical treatment right out of Guardians of the Galaxy:
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I shudder to think what WarHammer has to offer...
This medication is right out of Trek.
A local anesthetic that doesn't impair motor function could be within reach
All current local anesthetics block sensory signals—pain—but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor from being able to push. Prolonged local anesthesia after orthopedic surgery can leave patients unable...
And here--we have a medical treatment right out of Guardians of the Galaxy:
IgNobel 'Butt Breathing' idea from 2024 moves closer to real treatment
The technique sounds so outlandish that it won an IgNobel prize in 2024. But the science behind rescuing people with blocked airways and clogged lungs by rectally delivering oxygen to the body is no joke.
I shudder to think what WarHammer has to offer...
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We had something in the UK known as a BCG, aimed at tackling tuberculosis, which went in two stages. First there was a multi-pronged thing (at least, in my time at school), which was some sort of prep for the actual vaccine, and then the needle. Some people but not all ended up with a scar (I was lucky, I didn't).
In typical teenage schoolboy fashion, everyone went around then trying to punch everyone else's freshly-sore arm, right on the mark.
