Topics in Kansas History: Science & Technology

Health & Medicine

Find resources on health and medicine.

• Crumbine, Samuel

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Bloodletting tools
• Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
• Don't Spit on Sidewalk Brick
• I.Q. test
• John Brinkley ("Goat Gland" doctor) yachting cap & jacket
• Phrenology head

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "The Last Resort," Spring 2002
• "Well Intentioned, Ill Advised," Spring 2002

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

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