This year, one of the major hospitals in Youngstown, OH celebrates its centennial anniversary. The Rose Melnick Medical Museum is pleased to provide artifacts to support an exhibit that documents the history of Saint Elizabeth Health Center. In 1909, the citizens of Youngstown met to discuss the possibility of opening a hospital operated by nuns.… Continue reading Great local hospital turns 100
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Harvard teams up with other medical libraries to create digital collection
The Center for the History of Medicine has joined with peer libraries to initiate a digital Medical Heritage Library. The Center will receive $400,000 over the next two years to digitize 10,000 rare books from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that relate to the intersection of medicine and society. The initiative is funded by… Continue reading Harvard teams up with other medical libraries to create digital collection
Fading Art of Physical Diagnosis
A while ago, I wrote a post about the long history of the physical exam and how the advances in technology have changed that practice. For the past 100 years, physical examinations have been the cornerstone of diagnosis with expensive tests and machines supplementing the doctor's direct observations. These tests became popular in the early… Continue reading Fading Art of Physical Diagnosis
Light the Wick
The Rose Melnick Medical Museum has been featured on "Light The Wick," a weekly video newsletter about people and events on Wick Avenue, Youngstown State University's (YSU) arts corridor. The show typically includes profiles of students, staff, faculty, visiting artists, and administrators in the YSU arts scene as well as coverage of noteworthy events. The… Continue reading Light the Wick
Sometimes gross but fascinating…
One of the blogs on the Melnick Medical Museum's "blogroll" is Morbid Anatomy. The blog is written by Joanna Ebenstein. For more than two years she has used it to explore the intersection of anatomy and art. As a photographer and graphic designer, Ebenstein has an eye for visually interesting images. She is interested in… Continue reading Sometimes gross but fascinating…
Polio survivors face new challenges
On Monday, National Public Radio aired a story about Dr. Lauro Halstead, a doctor who published his research about what would come to be known as post-polio syndrome (PPS) 25 years ago this month. Halstead's research described PPS as a condition that affects polio survivors decades after they were first struck by the disease and… Continue reading Polio survivors face new challenges
AMA anniversary
Today, May 7th, is the 162nd anniversary of the founding of the American Medical Association (AMA). The mission of the organization was to advance the science of medicine, to improve the standards for medical education, to develop a program of medical ethics, and to improve the health of the public. The AMA was organized in… Continue reading AMA anniversary
Interesting Smithsonian exhibits on medicine
Common Threads exhibit by Jean Shin at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art: This exhibit is made out of a collection of similar everyday objects. For example, "Chemical Balance III" makes lighted stalactite- and stalagmite-like sculptures out of empty prescriptions containers. According to the artist, this part of the exhibit speaks to a dependency on… Continue reading Interesting Smithsonian exhibits on medicine
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880–1930
Throughout medical history, the practice of dissection has been controversial. During some periods of history it was distasteful or even illegal. At other times it served as the cornerstone of anatomy classes. Public opinion and differences in religious beliefs often meant that some cultures accepted the practice while others did not. The Dittrick Medical History… Continue reading Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880–1930
Medical library being cataloged!
The Rose Melnick Medical Museum is excited to annouce the beginning of a library cataloging project. We are in the process of creating catalog records for the hundeds of books and periodicals in our medical library collection. These records will be available in Youngstown State University's Maagnet catalog and on the OhioLink catalog. These catalog… Continue reading Medical library being cataloged!
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