by Alethea Drexler, archives assistant mcgovern@exch.library.tmc.edu We got a visitor on Monday who brought us a new gadget. Meet the pneumothorax apparatus:   (double-click on image for a larger version) This machine, which is a little over a foot tall and has a cylinder about six inches in diameter, was used to induce artificial pneumothoraces… Continue Reading […]

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by Alethea Drexler Archives assistant Phil Montgomery is setting up a display of vintage medical machines today in the main library.  I thought I’d share one of them with our blog readers.  If you’re in the library, I hope you’ll go see it in person. This is the Sanborn Viso-Cardiette, model 51, a portable (“portable”… Continue Reading […]

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