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Did you know that March 24th is World Tuberculosis Day? Each year the World Health Organization (WHO) commemorates World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to “raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr […]

Sophie Rabinoff was born in Mogileff, Russia in 1889. Less than a year after her birth, her family immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Rabinoff attended Hunter College, going on to study at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1913.   Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, […]

In the Hospital section, illustrating a panel about the introduction of modern maternity wards, is this charming little picture, captioned simply “The first baby born at Pittsburgh’s Montefiore Hospital after its 1929 renovation.” A close look at the image itself tells us that the young gentleman is Ronald Montefiore Anatole, born July 22, 1929.  Yes, […]

Not every medical patent relates directly to treatment or medicine.  Any invention you want to protect needs a patent, whether it’s a pacemaker or – in this case – a better-fitting nurse’s uniform. Baltimore’s Morris & Co was founded by Edward Morris in 1867 as a men’s underwear manufacturer.  The company moved into production of men’s […]

Many thank yous to a Museum visitor who pointed out something quite important about women’s lives—and especially the lives of career nurses–in generations past. Women who single-mindedly dedicated themselves to their careers had to forgo marriage and family. “They gave their lives to their profession,” this visitor reminded me. They should be named and remembered. […]

The history of the cardiac pacemaker is a long one, with many individuals over the centuries contributing to our understanding of – and regulation of – electrical impulses and the human heart. In Beyond Chicken Soup, we highlight two Baltimore physicians, Morton Mower and Michel Mirowsky, who invented the implantable defibrillator. However, they were not […]

Nurses are a vital part of health care… and they also make great fictional heroes! As these examples show, there’s a long history of nurses starring in novels and comic books. District Nurse (1932), by Faith Baldwin, tells the story of Ellen Adams, a young woman working in a large city for the Visiting Nurse Association. […]

The Training School for Nurses of the Hebrew Hospital (in Baltimore, now Sinai Hospital) was incorporated in 1909. It was a necessity no well-run hospital could afford to be without. Training schools for nurses assured a steady labor supply; without trainees, the wards were impossibly short-staffed. By 1919, however, the nursing school was professional and […]

Standing at the ready behind the nurses’ station is a dress-form displaying a white uniform dress and a blue wool cape, both worn by nurses at Sinai Hospital, Baltimore.  Here’s a little more about the women who owned these pieces. The uniform belonged to Isabelle M. Heyman Laub, R.N., member of the Sinai Hospital School […]

A recent comment left in “Beyond Chicken Soup” mentioned the visitor’s wish to learn more about “polio before the vaccine.”  We mention the disease briefly, but in an exhibit that covers so much ground, we did not have the space to devote more than a photo to the topic. Baltimore has an important link to the […]

March 24 was the 35th annual observance of World Tuberculosis Day, and a spate of articles (including this from the Washington Post) caught my eye. I’m usually the kind of person who skips the “deadly disease” reading, but my research on TB for Beyond Chicken Soup raised my consciousness. So I looked it up: March […]

ELIZABETH D. A. MAGNUS COHEN Elizabeth D.A. Magnus Cohen was born in New York City in 1820. Later, she married Dr. Aaron Cohen and had five children. Her youngest son died from the measles, which inspired her to pursue medicine. When her husband left New York and went to New Orleans to study surgery, Cohen […]

LILLIAN WALD Lillian Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a German-Jewish family. In 1878, her family moved to Rochester, New York, where she soon attended New York Hospital’s School of Nursing. She graduated in 1891, and began medical school at the Woman’s Medical College. In 1893, Wald left medical school […]

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