77 results for: Medicine and Health Care
Pair of green leather portières from the home of Melvin Albert Weed, 1902
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy which became Weed's Pharmacy in 1910, operating in the same Central District location until 1958. A portière is a hanging curtain placed over…
ID Number:1971.5220.2
Date:1902
Oxyoline Machine, used to aid in curing colds, pneumonia, and other ailments, ca. 1909
In the early 20th century, it was thought that administering oxygen to patients would ease various respitory ailments and other health issues. This machine was purchased and used by Mrs. Oscar Ameline who was born in Seattle in the 1880s and lived there all her life. The Oxyoline was also used by her children. According to a pamphlet that came…
ID Number:1972.5515
Date:1909
Photograph of President Warren Harding posing for World War I veterans at Cushman Hospital by Seattle photographer Martin A. Grady, 1923
President Harding went on a tour of the western states arriving in Tacoma on July 3, 1923. He visited the WWI veterans at Cushman Hospital which was originally the Puyallup Indian School established in 1860, then renamed the Cushman Indian School in 1910, and then became the hospital in 1918. On July 5, Harding sailed to Alaska, returning to Seattle…
ID Number:1974.5977.9
Date:1923
Victor chest X-ray machine, ca. 1918
This x-ray machine was used by Dr. E.W. Rawson in Seattle. It may have been used to x-ray patients with influenza.
ID Number:1980.7077.8
Date:Circa 1918
Glass plate x-ray of abdomen, 1920
This x-ray was taken at the office of Dr. E.W. Rawson, MD, in Seattle most likely by the Victor chest X-Ray machine also in MOHAI's collection. The patient is unknown.
ID Number:1980.7077.14
Date:1920
Operating room auxiliary table, ca. 1920
This table was first used in Seattle General Hospital (established in 1895) from about 1919 to 1939. It was located adjacent to the Operating Room and held sterile wraps, gloves, towels, drapes, and various instruments for ready use. Dr. Erroll Rawson purchased the table in 1940 and used it as an instrument cart until the 1970s when he retired.
ID Number:1981.7389.22
Date:Circa 1920
Container of Powdered Orris Root from Bartell Drug Store, ca. 1900
Bartell Drugs, established in 1890, was one of the oldest and long-standing family-owned stores in Seattle until it was sold to Rite Aid in 2020. George H. Bartell Sr. (1868–1956) purchased the Lake Washington Pharmacy at 2711 South Jackson Street in Seattle's Central District in 1890, and that was the beginning of a long-lived and beloved Seattle business.
ID Number:1985.29.28
Date:Circa 1900
Portrait of Dr. Kathryn Harrison at age 85 by Herbert P. Muehlenbeck, ca. 1944
Dr. Kathryn Harrison was one of the first physicians specializing in obstetrics in Seattle. She was arrested twice in 1912 at the age of 50. The first arrest was for the murder of a young woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who probably died from complications from an abortion. The second arrest was part of a national sting operation against doctors…
ID Number:1990.25
Date:Circa 1944
Lifepak 33 D.C. Pulse Defibrillator Cardioscope from Physio-Control, Inc., 1968
Physio-Control, based in Redmond, Washington, and founded in 1955, invented the first portable defibrillator used by first responders and the general public.
ID Number:1991.23
Date:1968
The della Robbia Bambino plaque from the original Children's Orthopedic Hospital on Queen Anne, ca. 1946
Children's Orthopedic Hospital was established in 1907 by Anna Herr Clise and 23 Seattle women wanting to address the health care crisis. This plaque was given to the hospital by a former Italian prisoner-of-war, Giuseppe Tomarchio of Genoa, who was interned as a gardener and handy man working on the hospital grounds in the 1940s. The Bambino was the emblem…
ID Number:1996.24.2
Date:Circa 1946