Operating room, "B" building, Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln
Description
Two nurses wearing full-length gowns, gloves, and surgical caps stand inside an operating room in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The room is furnished with an operating table, an instrument table, a table holding anesthesia supplies, a table holding linens, tow carts holding multiple basins, a glass-front cabinet with additional surgical instruments, a five-shelf unit holding various bottles and supplies and a sink.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Twenty-third Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 240-241.
Historical Notes
Patients at the hospital received medical care as well as treatment for their mental conditions. Hydrotherapy was a popular treatment. During the 1915-1916 biennium, the reported causes of death in 140 patients included apoplexy, tuberculosis, paresis, senility and nephritis,.
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