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Celebrating 100 Years of The Texas Medical Center Library: 1915-2015

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  4. Hydrotherapy Machine: Therapeutic Bath, 1937
Hydrotherapy Machine: Therapeutic Bath, 1937
Pendleton & Arto, Inc. Medical Supplies, 1930
Physician on Street Corner with Bag, 1932
Infant respirator used at Memorial Hospital, 1932
Student in Doorway (1932)
Student and Vent Outlet, 1932
Memorial Hospital Fever Box, 1935
Memorial Hospital Nursing Station, 1935
Nurses and nursing students in a hall at Memorial Hospital, 1935
Hermann Hospital School of Nursing graduating class (1936)
Maternity Ward Room, 1936
Hermann School of Nursing Class of 1936 Group Photo
Oldsmobile ambulance, Memorial Hospital, 1936
Flash board, 1936
X-ray viewing box at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Iron lung, Memorial Hospital, 1937
Hydrotherapy Machine: Therapeutic Bath, 1937
Memorial Hospital Tissue Room and Lab (1937)
Radiology Department at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Radiology Department at Memorial Hospital 2, 1937
X-ray Viewing Box at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Children in Front of Memorial Hospital's Cottage for Sick and Crippled Children on Christmas Eve (1937)
Iron lung machines in use at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Memorial Hospital from the air, circa 1928-1938
Aerial View of Jefferson Davis Hospital and Nurses' Home, Houston, Texas, 1938
Vivian Maddox, medical records librarian, and hospital “sweetheart”, 1938

Hydrotherapy Machine: Therapeutic Bath, 1937

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Memorial Hospital System

01-01-1937

Public donations also purchased this Hubbard tank. The tank’s shape, with its narrow “waist”, allowed attendants to work with the patient without removing him or her from the bath. The water in this w..

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Public donations also purchased this Hubbard tank. The tank’s shape, with its narrow “waist”, allowed attendants to work with the patient without removing him or her from the bath. The water in this was likely heated and agitators provided a gentle “massage”. This is probably being used to treat a joint disorder such as juvenile arthritis. The man at the far right appears to be Robert Jolly, superintendent of Memorial Hospital and husband of Lillie Jolly of nursing fame.

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