Med. Medical History

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The collection consists of a single album, containing primarily photographs, as well as news clippings, documents, and mementoes, concerning Dayton pharmacist and physician Dr. Carl Henry Breidenbach (1867-1926) and his family. In addition to family photographs and a few medical scenes, other notable topics of the photographs include the Dayton flood of 1913, bicyclists, and the President Rutherford B. Hayes home in Fremont.

Abstract The Southwest Ohio School Nurses Association (SWOSNA) was founded in late 1967, with a primary purpose of developing strategies to obtain mandatory school health services and certification. It includes school nurses from southwestern Ohio, including Dayton, Springfield, Middletown, and Cincinnati. The organization’s goals include promoting health knowledge and advancing the quality of health services for school aged children in southwestern Ohio; fostering professional attitudes and adhering...

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The collection consists of a single Adobe Spark project entitled “Insta Fresh Corona Thyme #COVID19: The Life of an Instacart Shopper During COVID19.” The project includes 11 photographs, with captions, describing a trip to the grocery store Fresh Thyme, while working as a shopper for the grocery delivery service Instacart, near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in March 2020. The final photograph also shows damage still being repaired from the May 2019 Dayton tornadoes.

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Founded in 1948, the Montgomery County Medical Society Alliance is an organization of physician’s spouses who raise awareness and provide education on medical topics. The collection includes material on a variety of their activities, including meetings, community education, social events, and scholarship fundraisers for local medical students.

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The Health and Welfare Planning Council of the Dayton Area Records consist of nine (9) bound volumes of the Board of Directors' records, including constitutions and bylaws, officer lists, meeting minutes and attachments. The Health and Welfare Planning Council of the Dayton Area, Inc., primarily served Montgomery, Greene, and Preble Counties, and it was an associated agency of the United Fund.

Abstract The majority of the records included are documents that include annual meeting reports, correspondences between past presidents and other individuals, and programs for the annual meetings. The constitution and by-laws are also present. Several applications for membership and dues records have been included as well as templates for the awards the organization presented to its members. One printed copy each of the four different iterations of the organization’s website have also been included....

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This small collection contains letters from C.H. to his sister, Nell, concerning medical issues such as corns and sinus problems as well as personal medical problems and corresponding remedies. One includes a recipe for an ointment.

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M.L. Harter's letter to John J. Weaver, M.D., advising treatment for one of Weaver's patients whose vision has been impaired by an injured nerve.

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Receipt for a book purchased by J.U Fritz from E.L. Barret & Son, Stationers and Publishers of Books, Blanks, and Legal Forms of Springfield, Ohio; advertisement for Cuticura Antipain Plaster said to subdue inflammation, alleviate pain, and kill disease germs.

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This small collection contains two items. The first is a letter from Charles Lindbergh to Charles I. Barron, M.D., expressing his appreciation to Dr. Barron for permitting him to undergo decompression tests in Lockheed Aircraft Company's high-altitude chamber. The second item is Lindbergh's electrocardiogram from a Flight Personnel Examination.