STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

Re: OR table myth

• Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:10:10 -0600
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: John Zwicky <JZwicky@aap.org>
• Subject: RE: OR table myth
• Message-ID: sc7f99e7.054@aap.org

Hi Sue, 

I know nothing of operating tables, though pathology 
labs contained quite a bit of wooden furniture well into 
the 20th century.  Cabinets of course were wooden, but 
so were the benches on which pathologists and medical 
technologists did their work.  The ASCP archives has some 
historic photos of labs, which show wooden furniture even 
at Bethesda in the mid-50's (the ASCP had a workshop there 
in 1954).  I wonder if Susan Rishworth has any historic 
photos of operating rooms at ACS.

John Zwicky

John Zwicky, PhD
Archivist
Pediatric History Center
American Academy of Pediatrics
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