• Online Exhibits
• Audio and Video Archives
• Smallpox Outbreak
  • 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

Explore the Artifacts

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