Season 4, Bonus Episode: “How Far We’ve Come”: A Tour of the Russell Museum
Images 1-4 courtesy of Massachusetts General Hospital; Images 5-6 courtesy of Sam Hurwitz
Earlier this season, we visited the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital to learn about the first public use of an anesthetic in surgery. On this bonus episode of The Object of History, we return to Mass General to visit the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation. MHS Podcast Producer Sam Hurwitz joins the Director of the Museum, Sarah Alger, for a tour where they examine some of the museum’s most significant items related to the history of medicine.
Click the images above to view and learn more about each item.
Episode Special Guest:
Sarah Alger is the George and Nancy Putnam Director of Mass General Hospital’s Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation. She was a founding editor of Proto, a thought leadership publication that was sponsored by MGH for 17 years.
This episode uses materials from:
The Bond (Instrumental) by Chad Crouch (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)
Psychic by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)
Curious Nature by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)
