2019 Rotating Historical Exhibits at the Strauss Health Sciences Library
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Rare Book Profile Artifacts Exhibits
Rare Book Profile
Military Medicine
The Rare Materials Collection of the Strauss Health Sciences Library includes many titles illustrating the history of military medicine, including histories, memoirs, and biographies, manuals and
handbooks, regulations, and more. The work of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, including the publication of this pamphlet following the death of his son at the Battle of Kelly’s Ford, Virginia, facilitated the creation of ambulance service for the entire Union Army. Read more in the library's blog.
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Artifacts Exhibits
CytoscopyModern cystoscopy and endoscopy has its roots in a physician’s need for a better way to examine their patients internally, and the imagination that need drove. The first scope for examination was created in 1804, and developments have not slowed. Read
more in the library's blog.
Blood Pressure
Blood, one of the four humors, which also include black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm, the importance of blood was seen to be paramount to healing. Since Stephen Hales was able to observe and measure the blood pressure of a horse in 1733, the use of blood pressure and pulse have proved to be a key diagnostic for medical professionals. Read more in the
library's blog.
Dr. Kildare Board Game
Dr. Kildare ran for five seasons on NBC from 1961 to 1966. The show starred Richard Chamberlin as Dr. James Kildare, a popular character created by writer Frederick Faust, the subject of a series of MGM films and radio series in
the 30s and 40s.
Dr. Kildare took place at Blair General Hospital and told the story of a young intern learning how to be a doctor. The Strauss Health Sciences Library has a Dr. Kildare game that was released by IDEAL in 1962. The object of the game is to visit the rooms indicated on the Diagnosis Cards and collect Doctor Cards, which mark the rooms you’ve visited. Once you have visited the thirteen rooms
needed to make a diagnosis, you use the wheel to decode what is wrong with your patient. The first one to collect and decipher their cards is the winner.
Read more in the library's blog.
