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by Alethea Drexler
\narchives assistant
\nI’m sure you’ve noticed that I like to link to other pages in my blog posts.\u00a0 Phil and I have come across some very interesting, and often very fun, websites–usually while trying in vain to uncover the identity of a Thingamajig–and he suggested that we do a post to share some of our favorites.
\n1. Close to home:<\/strong>
\nThe Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library<\/a>: The library that we serve.
\nThe John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center<\/a>: Our official name and online home.
\n2. Archives<\/strong>
\nThe Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions<\/a>:\u00a0 Baltimore, Maryland.
\nRochester Medical Museum & Archives<\/a>: Rochester, New York.
\n3. Blogs<\/strong>
\nHistorical Notes from OHSU<\/a>: From the Oregon Health Sciences University Historical Collections and Archives.
\n4. Museums<\/strong>
\nArkansas Country Doctor Museum<\/a>: Lincoln, Arkansas.
\nThe Bakken Museum<\/a>: Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u00a0 This is actually a museum of electricity, but of course many of our devices are electric, and many attempt to use electricity for medical purposes.
\nThe Electrotherapy Museum<\/a>: Mr. Behary helped us identify our Fischer x-ray power source.
\nIndiana Medical History Museum<\/a>: Indianapolis, Indiana.
\nInternational Museum of Surgical Science<\/a>: Chicago, Illinois.
\nJohn P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science<\/a>: Right here in Houston.
\nMedical Antiques.com<\/a>: Lots of wonderful pictures.\u00a0 This gentleman built his own medical museum<\/a>!
\nMobile Medical Museum<\/a>: Mobile, Alabama.
\nMuseum of Human Disease<\/a>: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
\nMuseum of Nursing History<\/a>: Springfield, Pennsylvania.
\nMuseum of Questionable Medical Devices<\/a>: Now part of the Science Museum of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
\nM\u00fctter Medical Museum<\/a>: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 I was here a couple of years ago when I went to Philly for a family event.\u00a0 It’s nightmarish, but it’s also fascinating.\u00a0 The displays are largely medical specimens: Bones, preserved oddities and dissections, wax moulages.
\nNational Museum of Civil War Medicine<\/a>: Frederick, Maryland.
\nNational Museum of Dentistry<\/a>: Baltmore, Maryland.
\nNational Museum of Funeral History<\/a>: Just north of Houston in Spring, Texas.\u00a0 The NMFH has a display of a 1920’s embalming room, a Civil War era embalming tent, mourning memorabilia, exhibits on the funerals of several presidents (including an accurate replica of Lincoln’s casket), and an incredible collection of hearses.
\nNational Museum of Health and Medicine<\/a>: Washington, D.C.
\nRose Melnick Medical Museum<\/a>: Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio.
\nSouthern California Medical Museum<\/a>: Riverside, California.
\n5. Other areas of interest<\/strong>
\nAmerican Association for the History of Nursing<\/a>.
\nBlue Ridge Sanatorium<\/a>: Charlottesville, Virginia, vicinity.\u00a0 Opened in 1920 and currently under consideration for redevelopment.
\nA graphic biography of Dr. J.R. Brinkley<\/a>, notorious quack who made a fortune pushing the “goat-gland operation” in the 1930’s.\u00a0 The original Carter Family were regulars on the high-power radio station he ran out of Del Rio, Texas.
\nEssex Mountain Sanatorium<\/a>: Formerly in Verona, New Jersey, but now demolished.\u00a0 This is a lurid site aimed at ghosthunting enthusiasts, but there are some good pictures, site maps, etc.
\nSome good pictures of an iron lung<\/a> at the Kansas Historical Society, Topeka.\u00a0 The KHS also has some examples of medical quackery<\/a> and more medical quackery<\/a>, bloodletting tools<\/a>, a belt vibrator<\/a> (weight-loss quackery), a “Don’t Spit<\/a>” brick, and a quarantine sign<\/a> from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
\nPiedmont Sanatorium<\/a>: Burkeville, Virginia, vicinity.\u00a0 This was the counterpart to Blue Ridge, for African-Americans.
\nRailway Surgery<\/a>.org: A website dedicated to railroad hospitals.\u00a0 Houston’s Thomas Street Clinic, formerly the Sunset Hospital run by the Southern Pacific Railroad, is included.
\nWaverly Hills Sanatorium<\/a>: Louisville, Kentucky.\u00a0\u00a0 Another ghosthunting site, but it includes a history of the Sanatorium and some good pictures.\u00a0 It is also of interest that the building is being restored instead of demolished, as is usually the fate of old hospital buildings, which tend to be large and expensive to maintain, and quick to go out of date and need extensive and costly renovations as technology changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alethea Drexler archives assistant I’m sure you’ve noticed that I like to link to other pages in my blog posts.\u00a0 Phil and I have come across some very interesting, and often very fun, websites–usually while trying in vain to uncover the identity of a Thingamajig–and he suggested that we do a post to share […]<\/p>\n

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