Identifier: wisconsin12jane (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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d all his spare time toinvestigations in a room at the top ofhis home; which he had fitted upespecially for the purpose, having erect-ed a powerful static machine there. The interior of this chamber was asort of a strange pendemonium, in whichwere collected the most discordant arti-cles. The center table was a fine specimenof mission furniture and several chairswere of the same style. On the shelveswere hundreds of volumes, great Ger-man folios, and others of every size,printed in foreign tongues, covering anatomical subjects covered the walls.This singular room resembled the cellof an anchorite, or the secret den ofsome mediaeval alchemist. Added to this were electrical appli-ances, surgical instruments, and chemi-cal apparatus. The medical world was agitated onthe electrical question, the skiagraph,or Roentgen rays, and the practical ap-plication of its uses in medicine werebefore the public. The most extra-ordinary results were anticipated fromit, adherents even maintaining that by
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The largest and oldest edifice in the vicinity- medical subjects. Many of them wereout of bindings. Skulls of variousraces, articulated skeletons of anthro-poid apes, Egyptian mummies, poison-ous reptiles, excellent representations ofthe taxidermists art, in glass cases,while specimens of diseased conditionswhich affect humanity were preservedand shelved. Horrible parasites fromtropical shores swam in jars of spirits.Botanical productions representing theelements of materia medica were classi-fied, arranged and labeled. Charts of electrical influence life could be re-stored to deceased persons, while thedoubters contented themselves with neg-ative views. Almost every physicianwho had any pretensions to science, pro-cured text books on the subject and sub-scribed for literature containing articlespertaining to numerous experimentswith their surprising results. The ex-periments were conducted on frogs andlower animals. One day Dr. Steinbrenner was calledto attend a young lady who lived

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