The Wells Room is devoted to the Horace Wells artifacts, early dental instruments, cabinets and a chair from 1895. The display of military surgical kits are from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Medical inventions from the 1850's show the use of electricity, manipulation of joints, development of the stethoscope and the stomach pump. Other features include the 1920 x-ray machine and a Picker flouroscope from the 1970's. The Whalen Room displays are of Louis Pasture Institutes and their research in pathology around the world as well as dental student cases complete with instruments from the 1880's.
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