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Exhibit information: Graveyard of the Midwest: Early Medicine in Northwest Ohio
Photographs of the remains of two former Northwest Ohio communities wiped out by the cholera, books by early frontier doctors, and materials produced by the Toledo Medical Association, the largest medical society in Northwest Ohio.
Top shelf: Gravestones located in the former towns of Providence and Miltonville; book, A Systemic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior of North America by Daniel Drake
Middle shelf: Early medical books detailing various common treatments: by Samuel Thomson; by Daniel Drake; by Dr. Benjamin Rush; by Dr. William Beaumont; and by James Thatcher
Bottom shelf: Minute books of the Toledo Medical Association and North-Western Ohio Medical Association; published by the Toledo Medical Association; and on the Toledo Medical College
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