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Smallpox: A City on the Edge of Disaster
A City on the Edge of Disaster
Vaccination
Homer J. Hartzell Photography Collection
The Corlett Collection
Haunting Images
Group Pictures
Post Cards
Class Portrait
Tomfoolery and Humor
Explore the Artifacts
Kay-Cross oxygenator, 1951
George Crile and the lessons of military medicine in World War I
Dosimeter: Victoreen condenser R-Meter, 1928
Ruben A. Vance and lithotripsy: minimally invasive surgery more than a century ago
Homeopathic Medicine Case
Travenol artificial kidney, ca.1963
Engeln x-ray table 1927
Office Sign of Abner Webb c.1846
Phrenology Bust c.1850
Compression chamber, 1904
Cupping Set c. 1810
Crile transfusion cannula c. 1915
Cambridge Electrocardiograph, 1920
Gustav Weber and the medical impact of the Civil War Amputating Set c.1861
Physician’s surgical chair, 1890
Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy, 1979
Goldblatt clamps for hypertension experiments, 1934
Hirschowitz fiberoptic Endoscope, 1960
Beginnings of antiseptic surgery in Cleveland
Todd’s Head Spanner 1930
Claude Beck, defibrillation and CPR
Saddlebags and Instruments of Peter Allen, c.1820
Photographing Dermatology
Corlett’s Colleciton
Félix Méheux, hand colorist
Leman, hand colorist
Conclusions
Gallery of Photographs
Acknowledgments and References
History of Birth Control
Contraception in America 1800-1900
Contraception in America 1900 -1950
Contraception in America 1950 – Present day
Lake View Cemetery
No 1. Dudley P. Allen and the Cushing Family
No 2. Xenophon Christmas Scott
No 3. William Perry Horton
No 4. Howard Dittrick
No 5. Benjamin Strickland
No 6. John Lang Cassels
No 7. John Pascal Sawyer
No 8. Horace A. Ackley
No 8-A. George Coates Ashmun
No 9. James Henry Salisbury
No 10. Gustav Weber
No 11. Dudley Baldwin Wick, Jr.
No 12. Samuel Kelley
No 13. George Crile Sr., Charles Hoover, and John Phillips
No 14. Homer Hartzell
No 15. Henry Lovejoy Ambler
No 16. Jared Potter Kirtland
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