{"id":32462,"date":"2025-10-04T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32462"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:04:38","slug":"on-collecting-old-medical-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/on-collecting-old-medical-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"on collecting old medical photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32463\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dag-Boston-Hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32463\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dag-Boston-Hospital-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1847 Daguerreotype by Southworth &amp; Hawes in the Mass General operating Room<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. One of the earliest medical photos around seems to be this re-enactment of the first operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital under ether (taken by \u00a0Southworth &amp; Hawes). According to the Massachusetts General Archives, a second re-enactment was taken by an unknown photographer.<\/p>\n<p>More recently Dr Mike Robinson of <a href=\"https:\/\/centurydarkroom.com\/\">Century Darkroom<\/a> in the east end of Toronto took a modern day Daguerreotype of another re-enactment (Mike is a past president of both the PHSC and the Daguerreian Society).<\/p>\n<p>Back in February of last year, I did <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/two-chairs-no-waiting\/\">post on a variation to this group &#8211; dentistry<\/a> photos. The photo used is from Cindy Motzenbecker&#8217;s collection some of which was shown to us in an earlier ZOOM meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our next 2025 event, the famous fall fair to see many great items for your collection, perhaps not a medical photo, but certainly great items! Our PHSC News newsletter for July (<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PHSC_News_25_7.pdf\">25-7<\/a>) has details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. One of the earliest medical photos around seems to be this re-enactment of the first operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital under ether (taken by \u00a0Southworth &amp; Hawes). According to the Massachusetts General Archives, a second re-enactment was taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/on-collecting-old-medical-photos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[34,1021,279,220],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair","tag-cameras","tag-ephemera","tag-lenses","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32468,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions\/32468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}