John Granger explains the practice of alchemy and its reference in literature beginning with Shakespeare and including popular authors like J.K. Rowlings.
Respirator (or iron lung) manufactured by the J. H. Emerson Co., Cambridge, MA; rebuilt by Lifecare, Boulder, CO, in 1999; and formerly the property of Respironics, Inc., Murrysville (Pittsburgh), PA. Used chiefly for ...
This X-ray machine/flouroscope was manufactured by Koch & Sterzel AG of Dresden, Germany in 1929. It consists of numerous parts including table, which could be turned up-right, stand, mahogany and cherry wood cabinet ...
The Civil War was the first modern war for the United States and resulted in the highest number of US casualties per capita of any war. This presentation discusses the rapid advancements made in American medicine during ...
This photograph depicts a mother giving the Type II Sabin oral polio vaccine to her child during the immunization program in Youngstown in 1962. The program, which was sponsored by the Mahoning County Medical Society and ...
This photograph depicts Ohio Highway Patrolmen with money sacks from the Dollar Savings and Trust Company in Youngstown, Ohio. These sacks, once filled with polio vaccination kits, are full of money. They are assisting ...
This black and white photograph depicts an anesthesiologist anesthetizing a patient using ether. A surgeon, orderly, and several nurses assist in the procedure. This operating room may be the South Unit of Youngstown ...
Sepia photograph of an operating room with surgeon and patient. This operating room may be in the South Unit of the Youngstown Hospital Association around 1912.
African American men and women joined the war effort working at hospitals, on battlefields, and with relief agencies in both the North and South during the Civil War. Serving as surgeons, nurses, hospital attendants, cooks, ...
Sepia photograph depicting a doctor in his office during the early 1900s posing with a static machine. Static machines were the earliest electrical generators used for general diagnostic and therapeutic x-ray work for the ...
WPIC radio personality Mr. Caldwell interviews several families with children who suffered from polio. The recording also includes the sound of the iron lung respirator. Interview occurs January 23, 1952.
A group of student nurses stands on the steps of their dormitory, Stambaugh Nurses Home, in their uniforms and capes. The nurses' home was near the Northside Youngstown Hospital.
This photograph depicts volunteers working in a school kitchen in Youngstown, Ohio, diluting polio vaccines with distilled water in preparation for distribution. The program, which was sponsored by the Mahoning County ...