Dr. Tracy said the exhibit, which will be located in Geisinger medical school’s Scranton campus, is still in its early stages.
The collection of items includes a 1917 letter written by William Osler, MD, one of the founders of Baltimore-based The Johns Hopkins Hospital; a leather medicine pouch with vials of painkillers now more commonly used as poison; and a Civil War-era dissection kit containing nearly a dozen instruments used to conduct amputations, according to the report.
“That’s the thing I’m most excited about — that we’re drawing a straight line, really, all the way back to Civil War times with this display,” Dr. Tracy told The Times-Tribune.
Dr. Tracy also said the exhibit will highlight influential physicians who made a significant contribution to the study of medicine in northern Pennsylvania.
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