. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13. Eari y 1 xhibii on homeopathy showing ii- history; methods and remedies which was installed about 1929. (Smithsonian photo 27049.) including a hypochlorinator for purification of water on a farm was installed in tin- gallery. In 1942, the first Emerson iron lung developed in 1931 by John Haven I .merson I for artificial respiration was acquired by the Division. The Division acquired, in 1944, the first portable x-ray machine known to have been operated successfully n the battlefield, as well as other x-ray equipment and earl) medi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13. Eari y 1 xhibii on homeopathy showing ii- history; methods and remedies which was installed about 1929. (Smithsonian photo 27049.) including a hypochlorinator for purification of water on a farm was installed in tin- gallery. In 1942, the first Emerson iron lung developed in 1931 by John Haven I .merson I for artificial respiration was acquired by the Division. The Division acquired, in 1944, the first portable x-ray machine known to have been operated successfully n the battlefield, as well as other x-ray equipment and earl) medicine chests. Without a doubt, the most outstanding accession in the field of pharmaceutical history during Dr. Whitebread's years of service was the acquisition of the R. Squibb and Suns old apothecary shop. \1ms( ()f the baroque fixtures, including the stained- trlass windows with Hessian-Nassau coats of arms and wrought-iron frames, were part of the mid-18th- century cathedral pharmacy "Minister Apotheke" in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It was offered for sale in September 1930 by Dr. Jo Mayer ol Wies- baden, Germany, who was an enthusiastic collector of antiques, especially those related to the health professions. Earlier that year, a historian of phar- macy and chemistry, Fritz Ferchl of Mittenwald, Germain, had published a series ol scholarly and in- formative articles on the Meyer collection in which the outstanding specimens were beautifully portrayed .mil thoroughly described (see bibliography). As a result of Dr. Mayer's efforts to sell his 1 tion. the impact of Ferchl's illustrated articles, .nn\ the uniqueness of the collection. E. R. Squil>l> and Sons purchased it in 1932 and broughi it to the I taited States "with the thought that it would provide lor American pharmacy, it- teachers and students, a museum illuminating the history, growth, and de- velopment of pharmacy, its interesting backgi and struggle through the ;' It was di
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