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    Geneva’s Medical Societies

    August 9th, 2025
    In 1904, Geneva physicians organized the Geneva Medical Society with the object being to meet regularly and discuss interests in their profession. Not only did physicians meet to hear papers or lectures, they also participated in civic duties when advising the Geneva Common Council on matters related to health. Discussions on water quality and filtration, election of a coroner, and advice on how to stop More »
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    Medical Women’s Success

    April 2nd, 2021
    Why did medical women find professional success in the 19th century, only to fall back in the 20th?
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    Who Knew?

    December 18th, 2020
    What do toilet paper, Lysol wipes, hand sanitizer and a product first patented in 1797 have in common?
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    “Waiting Time”

    June 26th, 2020
    "View waiting time as a gift of time."
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    Staying At Home

    June 12th, 2020
    The City Historian reflects on staying home during the pandemic.
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    Thoughts From Quarantine

    May 29th, 2020
    Our office manager shares thoughts on the quarantine.
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    Memory and the Pandemic Experience

    May 8th, 2020
    If you want to remember what is happening now, what you think about COVID-19, make a record now.
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    Everyone Has A Story To Tell

    April 3rd, 2020
    The Executive Director shares her pandemic story.

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    March 9th, 2018
    Brief history of the Church Home Hospital

  • Patent Medicine

    February 23rd, 2018
    Ads for patent medicine

  • Modern Medicine

    June 17th, 2016
    I recently had an opportunity to experience some hand surgery and thought what a different experience citizens of Geneva years ago must have had compared to mine.

  • Uncle Doctor

    April 3rd, 2015
    Robert Swan’s youngest brother Frederick wrote a history of the Swan family in the 1890s. In it, he talks about their Uncle Daniel, or, as they called him, “Uncle Doctor:” [H]e made choice of the profession of medicine, and studied with Dr. John Brooks, then the resident physician of Medford. . . . Early in his practice, his attention was directed to the system of More »
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    Diphtheria Epidemic

    September 27th, 2013
    Chronicle of the 1878-1879 Geneva diphtheria epidemic.

  • Neither shall there by any more pain

    September 24th, 2013
    Discussion of the usage of anesthesia during childbirth in the mid-1800s.
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