MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY
EXHIBIT CLOSED MARCH 7, 2010
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"Medical Diagnostic and Treatment Technology" features some of the larger items in the museum's historical collection, which includes objects ranging in size from a suture needle to a two-ton MRI magnet. The equipment on display in this exhibit includes an iron lung, electrostatic generator, shoe fluoroscope, dental X-ray machine, Dermatex X-ray machine, and Philips Fluoroscope. The museum's historical collection documents changes in medical technology since the early 17th century, and its more than 12,000 historical medical objects also include microscopes, surgical instruments, numismatics, and anatomical models.
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