Misericordia Hospital

...edical teaching programs, which would allow students to be exposed to more treatments of various diseases.The last class of nurses graduated in 1971 due to the closing of the the nursing program.[15] The hospital would continue to expand with a new cancer treatment center opened in 1992 and and an

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Medical Mission Sisters

...a woman unless it was his wife, which left many women without any medical treatment.[3] Medical Mission Sisters Photograph album https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7368 While Dengel saw the use of trained religious sisters as filling the void in India and other countries to care for the sick, there was a major problem. According

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Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...ty, which at the time was very interested in the use of electricity and magnetism for medical treatment. Pamphlet with information on how to use Coad's galvanic battery during surgical procedures, 1844 Broadside publicizing Coad's lectures, undated The collection includes some of Coad’s correspondence, his lecture notes and medical remedies,

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