This battery-powered ECG machine registers the electrical activity of the heart. Its widespread availability gave clinicians a powerful tool for diagnosing cardiac heart disease. It…
This American-built therapeutic device delivered a high-frequency electrical current to the body. Following the discovery by 19th century researchers that powerful high frequency currents could…
This pamphlet, extolling the medical virtues of electricity, was produced by the Toronto Medical and Electro Therapeutic Institute in 1877. In 1876, Jenny K. Trout,…
This baby scale was used by Dr. Eli Irvine who practiced medicine in Weston, ON (now part of Toronto) beginning in the 1890s. Emerging in…
Items (a) through (d) belonged to Dr. Albert Cuddy, a family physician who graduated from medical school in 1930. Together, they indicate the wide variety…
Catgut, a fibre made out of the intestinal walls of ruminants, was once widely used as a surgical suture. It naturally breaks down in the…
A stereoscope is a device that allows viewers perceive two side-by-side photographs, taken at slightly different angles of the same scene, as one three-dimensional image.…
This fee schedule, adopted in 1922, indicates the prices that Ontario physicians could charge for particular services provided. The mileage charge (one dollar per mile,…
These lecture cards belonged to the student W.G. Harrison. Medical students at the University of Victoria College used cards such as these as entrance tickets…
The Provincial Lunatic Asylum, located at 999 Queen Street was opened in January 1850. The asylum was constructed with the aim of improving the care…