Topics in Kansas History: Business & Industry

Health

Find resources on health.

• Crumbine, Samuel

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Bloodletting tools
• Carry A. Nation: The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher (online exhibit)
• Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
• Don't Spit on Sidewalk Brick
• I.Q. test
• Iron lung
• John Brinkley ("Goat Gland" doctor) yachting cap & jacket
• Medical quackery
• Phrenology head
• Sign, Better Health Association
• Sign, Public Health Films
• Sinners and Saints: Vice and Reform in Kansas (online exhibit)
• Straitjacket
• Waconda Springs jug

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• County Health Department Retention Schedule
• Kansas Physicians and Midwives Index, 1881-1900

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "'Apply Salt, Gunpowder, and the Yellow of an Egg': The Treatment of Rattlesnake Bites by the Western Kansas Settler," Spring 1998
• "Army Medicine on the Plains: George M. Sternberg's Life on the Kansas Frontier, 1866-70," Autumn 1998
• "From Country Doc to Pioneer Surgeon: Profile of A.C. Johnson, D.O.," Autumn 1996
• "Pure Food and Water for Kansas: E.H.S. Bailey, the State Laboratory, and the State Board of Health during the Progressive Era," Spring 1997
• "Women, Medicine, and Science: Kansas Female Physicians, 1880-1910," Spring 1998

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

" Revisit 1900 as we Ride into the New Millenium," December/January 2000