Keywords: Blood disease
Item 102250
Dana's Sarsaparilla advertisement, Belfast, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Belfast Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Medicine in Times Past
Inspired by Dr. Greenleaf Wilbur's medical box at the Skowhegan History House, this exhibit highlights some Mainers in the medical field of the past and the stories they had.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid
"… all types of horrendous treatments, including blood-letting with blood suckers, and trying to stretch his body."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2
"… Care, Patient and Family Centered Care, Patient Blood Management, Pediatric Services, Pelvic Floor Disorder Treatment, Respiratory Medicine…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
