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A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Strange Tale of Mr. Williams the Oculist and His Kingston Connection
A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Strange Tale of Mr. Williams the Oculist and His Kingston Connection
A Mere Appendix: Pioneering Surgery in Grand Valley Ontario
The appendix represents quite a mystery. For many years it was believed to be a vestige of our distant ancestors; the trace of a cecum, a part of many animals large intestine. This theory was put forward by Charles Darwin, but was mostly refuted in 2013.
Artificial Placenta Project
The Museum of Health Care receives a wide variety of gift offers over the course of a year. Many of these donations relate to healthcare themes more generally, but in special cases, some document the careers of individual practitioners.
Fenwick Operating Theatre: a life-saving surgery in Edwardian Kingston
At the heart of this story is young William Benjamin Stalker, who was born in 1891. The clinical details of his misadventure and life-saving surgery are preserved in the surgeon’s report detailing the boy’s accident and medical treatment in the January 1902 Kingston Medical Quarterly.