What are some of the more bizarre items in the Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection?
Some of the more unusual items in the Edgar McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection are anatomical models of the eye, ear and larynx made from papier-mâché by Dr. Louis Auzoux, a 19th century French physician; an 1850 trephine used to drill holes in the skull for brain surgery; a number of post mortem instruments, and a thumb-operated dental drill from 1873. What types of items are in the Bullough collection? The History of Nursing Collection was established in 1990 by Bonnie Bullough, former dean of the UB School of Nursing, and Vern Bullough, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Buffalo State College. Among the items in this collection are the 1860 first American edition of Florence Nightingale’s “Notes on Nursing ;” Civil War-era nursing books; books covering numerous specific areas of specialization, such as fever, camp, surgical and psychiatric nursing, and early nursing textbooks, some published prior to 1900. How are these collections used? Can a
