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I collect antique medical items such as old metal syringes, books, diagnostic equipment, etc. I also collect very old medical journals.

I just won this auction on ebay. It's a medical journal from the late 1800's where a doc is apparently complaining that nurses made too much money.

Question for staff... since this medical journal is well over 100 years old can I post the contents when I receive it?

I just had to laugh, they've been complaining about this for over 100 years. You'd think they'd have a clue by now.

Assuming staff are okay with my posting the article (can't be copyright issues now, can there??) is anyone interested? If folks aren't interested I don't want to take the time to copy/type.

I also won another auction for a medical journal where it said that OB nurses were "stupid" and needed more training. Well, perhaps if they would have taught them more than how to make "oatmeal" while in school, they would have been better prepared to deliver babies!

Some docs just don't get a lot smarter with time.

Specializes in M/S, OB, Ortho, ICU, Diabetes, QA/PI.

the story is too long to tell but when I was 14, I drank a glass of milk and whiskey - OMG, it was awful!!! yup, the milk is curdled when it comes back up!!!!!

anyhoo.....now I'm all interested and going to look on e-bay for old medical stuff-sounds interesting - that old stuff is way too neat

Canadian nurses, back me up on this - in Calgary Alberta Canada, there is a place called "Heritage Park" - it's old historical houses and businesses and such all put in one place - way cool to see - it has an old hospital to see and tour and the tour guide is dressed as a nurse from the 1800's or so - there are old instruments and equipment and a room set up with a guy in bed in Buck's traction (still looks the same) - they have a register that you are only allowed to sign if you are a nurse - I was the only one in our tour group of about 20 people or so! also, because I was a nurse, the tour guide let me go into the room and pretend to be doing something to the guy (actually a mannequin) in Buck's (the rooms were for looking in from the door only - they had ropes across to keep people out) - my husband took a picture - pretty funny!!

also, one of my journals that I get have pictures in them from the Burns Collection (don't know if that's the right name) to illustrate the explanation of some disease or treatment from the past - the pictures really bring to life what is being discussed - the picture of the guy with full blown smallpox was just awful!!! has anyone else heard of/seen pictures from this collection? some of the stuff pictured just looks kooky although it was what was considered cutting edge at the time - can you imagine what people are going to think of pictures from now in 100 years or so??

Specializes in Operating Room.
can you imagine what people are going to think of pictures from now in 100 years or so??

Yep..... "They got WHAT and stuck it WHERE?" :rotfl: :chuckle :rotfl: :chuckle

Your story about the old hospital is really neat. There is a park in Dallas, Texas that has a reinactment of Pioneer days. It was really neat going there in a fieldtrip in elementary school.

Specializes in Surgical/Telemetry.

Interesting post about Heritage Park in Canada, maybe I'll have to go there instead of Victoria for my summer trip north. Will just have to do a little research on touristy things in Calgary :)

Thanks for sharing that with us, Bipley! That was very interesting. Do you know what region the notes are from in addition to the time? And if it was home care as opposed to hospital, which I assumed from the 24-hour care for 9 days by same person?

God save us all from douches. Oy.

Specializes in M/S, OB, Ortho, ICU, Diabetes, QA/PI.

God save us all from douches. Oy.

I can't believe, with what we know now, that you can still buy douches in stores.............

don't groan, but I remember as a kid in the '70s, finding my mom's rubber douche bag in a box tucked way back in the bathroom linen closet and actually having the guts to ask her what it was - I don't think I've ever seen her face as red as it was that day that she (sorta kinda) explained what is was for - poor mum!!

:coollook: :clown: :eek:

gotta run and check out the e-bay listings.....................

Specializes in Urgent Care.
Do you?????? I have an early 1900s hemoglobinometer. It's from Merck. It has little papers similar to paper towels. You put a drop of blood on this special paper and compare it to the color chart to diagnose anemia! LOL

I JUST (today) won a home medical guide from 1901. It's 1400 pages long. I had one before but I gave it to my sister's daughter. I have old (verrry old) medical syringes with the cleaning wire. You clean the inside of the needle with the wire and I have a stone used to sharpen the needle before the next use.

I have a book that tells if your son is doing the dirty deed... masturbation. There are something like 19 signs to tell if he's "doing" it. :chuckle Some of the signs are, acne, a barrel chest, wants to keep to himself for long periods of time and not spend time with family, sweaty palms, an intense desire to spend time with female girls his own age, ... the list goes on. It is very funny. The reason they believed masturbation was bad for boys was because they only have so much sperm. If they use it all up before they are married it is cruel to his wife because he won't be able to have children.

I love this stuff. I also collect items from slave trade days as well as ancient Egyptian artifacts. (stuff from tombs)

This medical journal that I won... I bid on 15 of them and won 8. I cut a deal with the seller and anything I missed and failed to bid on (aka snipe) he will sell to me for his listing price assuming it didn't sell. That means, I'm not actually sure what I agreed to buy or how many paychecks it will take to pay this off! But I don't care, I adore this stuff. I can sit and read my old medical books for hours. I can't get enough of it.

What do you have?

Did you know that any antiquities from egypt are actually owned by the egyptian Gov't? If it came from a tomb it belongs to the people of Egypt. Not that I agree with that 100%, but that is the way it is.

On the way back to the US after a 6 month tour of Egypt in the 80's I saw a US soldier arrested at customs for possesing antiquities. Its a very big deal. Dont do it. It is possible to buy authentic stuff, but it is not legal, and there are alot of fakes around.

Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.

old medical equiptment...what an awesome collection! Before now I never thought of it:)

I'm so glad to see other people are interested in this stuff too! I buy some things off of ebay, but I was wondering if you have any other websites or any where else that you buy this stuff?

What a great posting! I have a few little things like old medicine bottles, but I enjoy pictures of nursing and learning about health care in the "olden" days. When I saw the Tut exhibit years ago there was a beautiful gold statue of a godess that was one of three or four found in the tomb. Her head is at a 3/4 turn which is unusual for Egyptian art. Her name is Selkit and she is the godess of nursing and childbearing. If you see a picture of her she's the one with the scorpion on her head with her head turned slightly to the side--beautiful! I have a big poster of her and a plaster bust.

I use a lot of this information when I teach my students--like the fact that the first airline stewardesses were nurses. I've also said that when they start recruiting for the first nurse to go on the space shuttle I volunteer!

There is (or was) a mock set-up of an operating room in the Smithsonian complete with an old balloon pump--not as vintage as your cache but still interesting. They also had an old delivery chair--looked like a commode without the bucket.

Great stuff!

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