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Strong Medicine: the Healing Response to the 2013 Marathon Bombing
Stories, images, and communications from the Boston medical community's experience of the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013 and its aftermath.
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Objects and Images from the History of Anesthesiology in the Collections of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Center for...
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Lucien Morris, Copper Kettle Patent Illustration
One of Lucien E. Morris' illustrations for his "Anesthesia Apparatus" filed with his US patent application in 1953. Patent number US2890696 was…
Boyle apparatus / British Oxygen Company
Henry E. G. Boyle, OBE, FRCS, DA (1875-1941) introduced this anesthesia machine in 1917. It was a modification of the American-made Gwathmey-Woolsey…
Learning how to give a spinal anesthetic
Instructor teaching how to give a spinal anesthetic, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1974.