Medical Case and Instruments

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Medical Case and Instruments is realia, with genre medical equipment & supplies. Its dimensions are 12 in. x 18 in. x 3 in..

It was created around 1900-1930.

Harding Hospital Museum is the Contributor.

Dr. George T. Harding II used this "little black bag" during his medical practice. Its contents seem slim by modern standards, but many items, such as the stethoscope are still in use. Most doctors made house calls, and equipment had to be portable.Dr. Harding II founded Harding Hospital in 1916, then known as the Columbus Rural Rest Home. Orginally located in Columbus, the hospital moved to the fifty-acre Worthington campus in 1919. The name of the hospital changed to the Harding Sanitarium in the 1930s and subsequently Harding Hospital. In 1995 Harding Hospital was integrated into the Ohio State University Medical Center. Harding Hospital pioneered treatments that became standards for the profession while located in Worthington for eighty years.

It covers the topic doctors and medicine.

It features the organization Harding Hospital.

It covers the city Worthington.

You can find the original at Harding Hospital Museum.

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is hhm0011.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on March 26, 2003. It was last updated November 17, 2017.