NOBODY NEEDS TO SEE THIS: 10 DISTURBING ILLUSTRATIONS OF VICTORIAN SURGICAL PROCEDURES

You don't want to look at these. Stop right here. Don't click onwards. It'll ruin your day. These illustrations depicting Victorian surgical procedures are the stuff of nightmares.

Frankly, we don't even know what we're doing showing them to you.

If you are foolish and/or weird enough to want to see them, we've taken the precaution of offsetting their horrific qualities by interspersing them with a series of images depicting the cutest babies we could find. You have been warned...

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10. SOME FINGERS BEING REMOVED IS PROBABLY THE LAST THING YOU WANTED TO LOOK AT TODAY.

AT LEAST THERE'S A CUTE BABY HIDDEN BEHIND THIS REVEAL TO HELP YOU RECOVER:

9. SERIOUSLY, WE TAKE NO ENJOYMENT IN LETTING YOU SEE THIS SORT OF THING.

ON THE PLUS SIDE, IF YOU PRESS REVEAL YOU'LL SEE A BABY, WHICH SHOULD GO SOME WAY TO MAKING UP FOR IT:

8. THIS IS JUST REVOLTING. OF COURSE, YOU COULD STOP LOOKING... BUT THEN YOU WON'T SEE THE NEXT BABY.

THE BABY MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE, ALMOST:

7. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. WE JUST KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY NICE.

ANOTHER ONE OVER. AND HERE'S YOUR REWARD - IT'S A BABY... PHEW!

6. YOU COULD TRY COVERING PART OF THE SCREEN WITH YOUR HAND, AND SEE IF THAT WORKS.

DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE YOUR HAND IN TIME FOR THE BABY, THOUGH:

5. LOOK AT THE HORROR IN THAT POOR MAN'S EYE. OR DON'T. IT'S UP TO YOU ENTIRELY.

NOT LONG TO GO NOW. HERE'S THE NEXT BABY TO TIDE YOU OVER:

4. IF YOU WANT OUR ADVICE, WE'D JUST SCROLL PAST THIS ONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. REST ASSURED, A BABY IS WAITING FOR YOU.

HERE IT IS... HERE'S THE BABY:

3. GOD. THIS... THIS IS JUST WRONG ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER BABY:

2. WHAT ON EARTH DID THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY WERE DOING? MORE TO THE POINT: WHAT DID WE THINK WE WERE DOING WHEN WE STARTED THIS LIST?

THANK GOD FOR THE BABIES:

1. CRANIAL SURGERY NOW. SOMETHING THAT WE PROBABLY SHOULD'VE HAD BEFORE WE CONCEIVED OF THIS LIST. AT LEAST THIS IS THE END OF IT. IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR YOUR FINAL TREAT.

UNFORTUNATELY THE END OF THIS LIST MEANS IT'S ALSO THE END OF THE BABIES:

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