Staying Alive: A Look at the Medical Field in Putnam County

Visiting my inlaws over the holidays, I stumbled upon this nice little exhibit in Cookeville, Tennessee at the Cookeville History Museum on the medical history of the county. There's some stuff I haven't seen before in it, like the X-ray viewer, and some good archival records too. "Staying Alive: A Look at the Medical Field in Putnam County" is on through January 17 2009.














Physician's electrical cabinet








Diagnostic instruments, bandages, splints.






Drugs and pharmaceuticals.


X-ray equipment.


Note the sterilizer iin the corner.


Examination chair.


Birthing table.


Atropine for nerve gas from Vietnam War.


Walter Reed's dinnerware.


Doctors in Vietnam War.








Wheelchair from a doctor's office.