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Governor Schmedeman in Wheelchair

Date: 10 26 1934
Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation.
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Cadet Singers

Date: 08 29 1930
Description: Floyd's Cadets (singers), a vaudeville act, in military uniforms standing in a "V" formation with hands on hips on stage at Orpheum Theatre. "First use of ...
Book or Pamphlet

Chapman's Medical School Brochure

Date: 1852
Description: Circular and catalogue advertising Dr. Chandler B. Chapman's "Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery." Madison, 1852.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 01 29 1954
Description: Portrait of Phillip Drotning, executive secretary to Governor Walter J. Kohler, and surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross during surg...
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Blood Donors Keep Patient Alive

Date: 09 10 1959
Description: Tim Farrell and his mother, Mrs. Leslie Farrell, Pine Bluff, entertain "blood kin" Dr. Herbert Howe whose blood helped keep Tim alive during open heart sur...
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Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
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Urea used for Brain Surgery at University Hospital

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: A brain surgery operation is in progress at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. A urea and inert sugar solution developed at the University is used to lo...

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