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The items in this exhibit have been generously provided by: Find out more information about the Pima County Medical Society’s Centennial Anniversary by consulting the information sheets near the exhibit case, directly behind the reference desk in the Arizona Health Sciences Library Exhibit prepared by Karen Ulehla, Steve Nash and
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Hearing tube — an early hearing aid Circa 1880 Courtesy of Sharon Levin, great-granddaughter of Ida Sluder of Wayside, Texas Nasal atomizer Double cell Faradic battery. The Faradic battery was used to administer high voltage electrotherapeutic treatments. It was thought that such treatments could cure everything from deafness, loss of smell, and asthma to cataracts, hysteria, and cancer. A Faithful Account of the Life and Death of Doctor John Charles Handy by Alberta Cammack (booklet). Dr. John C. Handy was Tucson’s foremost physician and surgeon from 1871-1891. Dr. Handy died of a gunshot wound on September 25, 1891. Doctor’s leather saddlebag with medicine vials US Government Medical Corps standard surgical needle set Sutures including a catgut suture kept in liquid in sealed glass tube Electric needle sterilizer Electrodyne pacemaker (early 60s). This is the first pacemaker device used at St. Mary’s Hospital. Direct person-to-person blood transfusion device Fleam—a bloodletting device Dating back to antiquity, bloodletting was considered to have therapeutic value. MD license plate tag; PCMS automobile tag. License and automobile tags allowed physicians to park anywhere and to speed. The use of such tags fell into disuse in the 1960s because addicts would break into physicians’ cars looking for drugs. Early medicines Suppository maker and suppository molds Pneumothorax apparatus owned by Alden Bertruc “A.B.” Thompson, Tucson’s first black physician. Dr. Thompson (1899-1964) practiced in Tucson from 1929 until his retirement in 1962. Patterson X-Ray Screen—a hand-held fluoroscope from the 1920s to the 1940s, Patterson screens were the recognized standard in the U.S. With the x-ray beam on, the physician would stand on the far side of the patient and view the image produced on the fluorescent screen of the fluoroscope. Doctor’s home delivery bag with equipment. Typical contents
might include stethoscopes, medical instrument kits, shaving razors,
gowns, syringes and needles, enema bags, anesthesia kits, bandages,
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Pima
County Medical Society
