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Re: History of Med marketing data 

I regretfully have found that the public is by and large ignorant of any type of medical history. 
There is a lot of presumption that med history is not connected to history in general. Part of the 
problem is that the medical field has tried to keep itself secret and guarded itself. There is a 
considerable amount of alchemy involved too. We tend to overdo the big names and events and ignore 
the smaller secondary events like W. W. Ely, MD and the mapping of the Adirondacks, or the life and 
death of Louis Weigel, MD one of the first Martyrs to the X-ray. Medical history needs to be written 
from the "man on the street" point of view not the loftiness of academia 
Philip G. Maples, Director 
Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives 
Rochester General Hospital 
1425 Portland Ave 
Rochester, NY 14621 
Phone: 585.922.3521 FAX: 585.922.5292 
Web: www.viahealth.org/archives 
e-mail: phil.maples@viahealth.org
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