If you wanted to get blotto and you knew your onions, it was duck soup to go to a croaker and dip the bill without resorting to a blind tiger. … More Prescription for Getting Owled: Prohibition and the Medical Establishment
A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Strange Tale of Mr. Williams the Oculist and His Kingston Connection … More A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Strange Tale of Mr. Williams the Oculist and His Kingston Connection
According to my mum, I had a really bad bout of scarlet fever when I was around four years old. From what I am told, I developed strep throat, which led to a rash, which led to a four-year-old kid who was too sick walk into the doctor’s office. After that dramatic visit to the family … More Would I Have Died? Scarlet Fever
In 2006 the Museum of Health Care received this fascinating artefact donation. This machine generated an electrical charge with the turn of a crank and could be used with various instruments for electrotherapy or to produce x-rays. … More Collections Corner: Electrostatic Generator
To open up the Museum of Health Care’s artefact collection we are participating in WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge. Based on WordPress’ randomly chosen themes, we’ll offer a serendipitous peek into our collection. Check in each week for a new curiosity. … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Self Portrait
To open up the Museum of Health Care’s artefact collection we are participating in WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge. Based on WordPress’ randomly chosen themes, we’ll offer a serendipitous peek into our collection. Check in each week for a new curiosity. … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration
To open up the Museum of Health Care’s artefact collection we are participating in WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge. Based on WordPress’ randomly chosen themes, we’ll offer a serendipitous peek into our collection. Check in each week for a new curiosity. … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting
The Main Building of the Kingston Hospital was built between 1833 and 1835, however due to lack of operating funds did not open until 1845, with incorporation in 1849 when a lay board was appointed. … More History of Health Care: Transformation of the Hospital
At the heart of this story is young William Benjamin Stalker, who was born in 1891. The clinical details of his misadventure and life-saving surgery are preserved in the surgeon’s report detailing the boy’s accident and medical treatment in the January 1902 Kingston Medical Quarterly. … More Fenwick Operating Theatre: a life-saving surgery in Edwardian Kingston
While doing a long overdue sorting and clean-up of the Museum’s small research library recently, I came across a fascinating little book.This slim volume is a form of medical diary, where an individual writes down his or her health history from birth until old age. … More The Book of a Life
