Medical instruments and apparatus
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
A JCRS physician examining his patient, after 1955
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.
AeroHalor in Box, circa 1945
Three pieces of an AeroHalor (a dry powder inhaler) used by Dr. Arthur L. Esserman, a pediatrician in Denver, Colorado. The AeroHalor was made by Abbot Laboratories in Chicago, Illinois. Dry powder inhalers were used in the 1940s, primarily for aerosolizing penicillin. Dr. Arthur L. Esserman (born 1898) was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine from 1926 until his death in 1952.
AMC Cancer Research Center - Deep X-Ray Therapy: 250,000 volt machine, circa 1950-1970
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.
Arthur L. Esserman, M.D. Medical Equipment and Papers
Dr. Arthur Esserman was born in 1898 and died in Denver, Colorado on June 18, 1952. He was an intern at Children's Hospital in Denver from 1924 to 1926 and practiced pediatric medicine in Denver from 1926 to 1952. He was also on the staff at Children's Hospital. The collection illustrates the medical practice of a prominent pediatrician in Denver.
Box 1, between 1924-1952
Leather Medical Bag
Box 2, 1924-1952
(8) Various Medical Instruments: ENT Battery Case; Tongue Depressors and cotton swabs in chrome cylinder; Chest piece of Fleisher stethoscope; fractionally distilled water; AeroHaler in box; Hypodermic Syringe in Box; reflex hammer.
Box 3, 1924-1952
Leather Symptom Notebooks, Medical Instruments including stethoscope, and Leather Cases
Box 4, 1920-1952
(3) letter file folders include: photographs and clippings, medical papers, children's hospital memorial entry. (4) framed documents. (1) large file folder of diploma and licenses.
Cancer Treatments - AMC, after 1955
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.