I didn't have time to even open a box from the Ball Collection today, so these are left over from yesterday. They're all from “Miniatur-Abbildungen der wichtigsten Akiurgischen Operationen,” a book illustrating Dieffenbach's operations, by Dr. H. E. Fritze. (1838) The descriptions are transcribed and I don't have a translation. It's a fairly delicate book, which is why you can see shadows at the gutter.
Table 1: venaescetio (obviously not ophthalmic, but I liked it anyway)
Table 5: Suturae cruentae; Staphyloraphe; Operatio labii leporini
Table 10: Paracentesis sacci lacrymalis oper. Catar. Et trichiasis; Operatio blepharoptosis et pterygii
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
A few more from Ball
Labels:
Ball Collection,
medical illustration,
ophthalmology
Cochlear implants evolving
The Washington Post had an interesting article on cochlear implants - "One Implant Made an Impact. Might Two Do Even More? For Family, Second Cochlear Surgery Was a Difficult Decision," By Anne Dooley, Special to The Washington Post, Tuesday, January 6, 2009; Page HE05. The article discussed how the use of the implants and the number used is changing (from one to two for various reasons) after the requisite fights with insurance companies.
If anyone has one of these to donate to the museum, even non-working, please let us know.
If anyone has one of these to donate to the museum, even non-working, please let us know.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Wellcome War & Medicine exhibit open through February
War and Medicine (22 November 2008-15 February 2009) is on display in London. I imagine this is a good exhibit. Be sure to check out the image galleries which in particular have a couple of nice shell shock images. You can see this one of ours on our flickr site as well as some mustard gas images. We recently put some facial reconstruction models on display very similar to the one seen in the photos on the Wellcome site, except ours are colored.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Jan 7: Museum exhibit manager Steve Hill speaking on Resolved exhibit design
This is one of AFIP's professional education lectures, but I imagine if one wanted to attend, one could.
The following lecture is presented by the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Date/Time: 07 Jan 09/1100am
Location: Dart Auditorium
Speaker(s): Steven Hill
Exhibits Manager
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Title:
“RESOLVED: Turning a good idea, clinical expertise, and field experience into a museum exhibit”
Objectives:
To explain how a scientific/health museum exhibit is created from the ground up
Description:
Talk will cover all aspects of turning an idea—in this case the United States’ commitment to individual identification of its war dead—into an museum exhibit. Subtopics will include differences between museum exhibit and other forms of communication/education, how concepts are refined and broken down into topics that can be visually presented in a museum setting, selection and security of artifacts, exhibit design and visitor flow, construction and installation.
The following lecture is presented by the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Date/Time: 07 Jan 09/1100am
Location: Dart Auditorium
Speaker(s): Steven Hill
Exhibits Manager
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Title:
“RESOLVED: Turning a good idea, clinical expertise, and field experience into a museum exhibit”
Objectives:
To explain how a scientific/health museum exhibit is created from the ground up
Description:
Talk will cover all aspects of turning an idea—in this case the United States’ commitment to individual identification of its war dead—into an museum exhibit. Subtopics will include differences between museum exhibit and other forms of communication/education, how concepts are refined and broken down into topics that can be visually presented in a museum setting, selection and security of artifacts, exhibit design and visitor flow, construction and installation.
More from the Ball Collection
Here are a few more scans from the Ball Collection. For as long as we've had it, we've thought the name was James Moore Ball. Today we discovered his middle name is Moores, with an s on the end. Just tuck that trivia away. You might need it one day.
Acc. 18873 Morbi Conjunctiva palpebrarum et bulbi. Diseases of the ocular and palpebral conjunctiva. Colored plate I from Dr. Friedrich August von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Acc. 18874 Diseases of the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva. Colored plate II from Dr. von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Acc. 18875 Diseases of the cornea. Colored plate III from Dr. von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Acc. 18873 Morbi Conjunctiva palpebrarum et bulbi. Diseases of the ocular and palpebral conjunctiva. Colored plate I from Dr. Friedrich August von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Acc. 18874 Diseases of the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva. Colored plate II from Dr. von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Acc. 18875 Diseases of the cornea. Colored plate III from Dr. von Ammon's book (vol. 1).
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Less pharmaceutical advertising fun
No Mug? Drug Makers Cut Out Goodies for Doctors
By NATASHA SINGER
New York Times December 31, 2008
The pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on branded promotional items.
Well, darn. I like the geegaws, although I'm in a constant debate with historical collections over whether or not to keep them. I'm in favor since they are part of medical history of a type.
By NATASHA SINGER
New York Times December 31, 2008
The pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on branded promotional items.
Well, darn. I like the geegaws, although I'm in a constant debate with historical collections over whether or not to keep them. I'm in favor since they are part of medical history of a type.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Photographs of Museum specimens on French blog
Morbid Anatomy tipped me to E-l-i-s-e's blog post on photographs of specimens taken at the Museum. It looks like some of these were shot behind-the-scenes as even I don't recognize some of the specimens (not that it's my department...)
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Whatever Happened to Polio? exhibit photos
When the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History closed in 2006, one of the things that went with it was Katherine Ott's excellent exhibit "Whatever Happened to Polio?" I don't know if the exhibit is in the re-opened museum, but when I ran across my pictures I figured I'd share them here.
Would a vaccine work? panels
Will there always be polio? panels
What do these devices do? panel with crutches.
What is polio? panels
What could your dime do? (for the March of Dimes) panel
How did polio change us? panels
What happened in a polio epidemic? panel
Interactive station
Iron lung.
Model showing how iron lung reduced pressure to enable lungs to fill with air.
What do these devices do? panel with braces.
Would a vaccine work? panels
Will there always be polio? panels
What do these devices do? panel with crutches.
What is polio? panels
What could your dime do? (for the March of Dimes) panel
How did polio change us? panels
What happened in a polio epidemic? panel
Interactive station
Iron lung.
Model showing how iron lung reduced pressure to enable lungs to fill with air.
What do these devices do? panel with braces.
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
More from the Ball Collection
Some original drawings I scanned from the James Moore Ball (ophthalmology) Collection. I'm making what I hope is a final pass through the 89-page finding aid, checking every folder to make sure the spelling is right. I just wish I had time to scan everything, there are such interesting images there.
Also check out our latest Flickr account for another couple from Ball.
These were done by Margaretta Washington:
Acc. 18696 Lacrimal fistula
Acc 18697 Trachoma
Acc 18698 Um, I don't remember. This might be tuberculosis.
Acc 18699 Acute catarrhal conjunctivitis
Also check out our latest Flickr account for another couple from Ball.
These were done by Margaretta Washington:
Acc. 18696 Lacrimal fistula
Acc 18697 Trachoma
Acc 18698 Um, I don't remember. This might be tuberculosis.
Acc 18699 Acute catarrhal conjunctivitis
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