Blackbeard’s Medical Equipment

Archaeologists recover some spooky looking medical tools used aboard Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s ship. Some of the things that they’ve found are urethral syringes used to inject mercury to treat syphilis. You have to remember that these men were under incredible amounts of pain, and did whatever they thought was necessary to make it stop. Originally, Queen Anne’s Revenge was a slave ship, that had doctors, and after Blackbeard captured it, he kept them to help alleviate their wounds.

By: O. Escalante