Medicine in Pennsylvania

‘The Cures (or) Blysters and Clysters and Purges, Oh My!’ from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D. This excerpt are part of a book entitled "Hale Columbia", a medical record of Columbia, PA. from 1893-1905. If you want more of his excellent medical summaries of institutions of Columbia, diseases and "cures"of those days, medical education in the 1800's, and physicians of Columbia, you may purchase his book from the Edward Hand Medical Museum for a $20 donation, which will be given to the Museum by Dr. Lahr. We appreciate Dr. Lahr's philanthropy and support of the Museum and medical history.

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1800’s Medical Education Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D. These excerpts are part of a book entitled "Hale Columbia", a medical record of Columbia, PA. from 1893-1905. If you want more of his excellent medical summaries of institutions of Columbia, diseases and "cures"of those days, medical education in the 1800's, and physicians of Columbia, you may purchase his book from the Edward Hand Medical Museum for a $20 donation, which will be given to the Museum by Dr. Lahr. We appreciate Dr. Lahr's philanthropy and support of the Museum and medical history.

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A Brief History of Bloodletting

Timothy M. Bell, MLS (ASCP)cm

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Calomel and its Critics

Eli Schneck, B.A.

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The Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation Cardiology Exhibit – Exhibit Info and Research Findings

Nathan Leisenring

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Pennsylvania Medicine: Primacy and Mechanics

c. 1971 - Irwin Richman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg

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