Small rectangular package containing needle and tubing for drawing blood
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New mini-exhibits in the Allen Memorial Library!

If you've visited our building, the Allen Memorial Medical Library in person this month, you may have noticed two new Dittrick Medical History Center exhibit cases on the 2nd-floor landing. We will regularly display exhibits in progress, unusual combinations of artifacts, and new collections research in these publically accessible "mini-exhibits." One display, At the Dittrick, we're exploring... presents new themes and ideas we're developing for larger exhibits, events, and research projects. The second exhibit, What's New (and Old) at the Dittrick? displays modern medical devices alongside their technological ancestors. Click here to see the online version of our newest mini-exhibit, At the Dittrick,...

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Amanda Mahoney
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The next Chief Curator: Amanda L. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.N.

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that a Search Committee, chaired by Alan J. Rocke (Distinguished University Professor and Emeritus Professor of History at CWRU), recently fulfilled its charge of recommending to Dean Cyrus Taylor a candidate for Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum. Dean Taylor accepted the Search Committee’s recommendation after a personal on campus interview, and offered the position to Dr. Amanda L. Mahoney. Dr. Mahoney accepted the invitation and will begin at the Dittrick on December 3, 2018. Dr. Amanda L. Mahoney brings to the Dittrick ample hands-on museum...

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Chief Curator James Edmonson retires

Reprinted from the Cleveland Medical Library Association Newsletter This will be my last CMLA Newsletter, as I will be retiring as Chief Curator effective September 30. It’s a bittersweet moment for me, as I have been most fortunate in finding a home at the Dittrick in 1981 (egads!). But I felt that it was time to hand the reins over to a new generation. I like to think that I‘m going out on top, having just recently developed a 21st century interactive exhibition, How Medicine Became Modern. I have been helped in that and in all other of our endeavors...

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Skin Deep: Photographing Dermatology, an online exhibit

Here we present material from a Dittrick Museum digital exhibit--Photographing Dermatology: The collections of Dr William Thomas Corlett (1854–1948). William Thomas Corlett was born in Orange, Ohio and educated at Oberlin College from 1870 to 1873. He studied medicine at the medical department of the University of Wooster (forerunner of the College of Wooster), graduating in 1877. After teaching at Wooster for two years he traveled to London and Paris to study skin diseases and later become a Fellow of the London Royal College of Physicians. Corlett returned to Cleveland in 1882 and was appointed lecturer, then Professor of Skin...

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