Free museum day, part 3: The Museum of Medical History
Be happy–that you are able to get the medical care we have today. Of the three museums we visited, this was the scariest. When you look at what the doctors of years gone by had to work with, thankfulness and fear comes to the surface. The progress we have made is amazing.
Photographing some of the old tools was difficult because of the small quarters, glare and glass cases. Again, I shot tight. As you look at some of the images, be thankful!
This is an iron lung used when a patient had polio.
An old wheel chair. Comfy?
A machine to test hearing loss.
Old medical books.
This was an instrument for medical research only!
This was a diathermy machine, 1920, that electrically produced heat.
Who remembers asprin packaged like this?
Early baby bottles and a picture of the Gerber baby.
Compounds for mixing.
Medicines.
Microscopes.
A bone saw.
A chloroform mask.
A blood transfusion kit. They would transfer blood directly from one person to another.