McGovern Historical Center

One of these is William Bates, 1917.

Bates (1889-1974) was a lawyer and trustee, then chair, of the M.D. Anderson Foundation.

Joseph Schwarting cover “Obsessive compulsive disorder” for the Psychiatric Bulletin, fall 1957.

It’s a lazy rainy day here: Central Market Foodie cards found in MS 125 Robert Guynn. They weren’t obviously relevant to the other contents but for now we’ll leave them there.

Receipt for prescriptions, 1838. Stereotypical physicians’ penmanship hasn’t changed, but this appears to have been written to an Aunt Tabitha Lee for emetic and cathartic pills.

Sneak peek! We’ll have more on this later but we’ve just secured a small collection of material from the Houston Drug Company, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century!

Poster project about the Menninger Clinic museum artifacts by a past intern. These items are from IC 078 Menninger Foundation [Clinic], although they were not in recent use. Map drawer 09.1.

Graphotype machine at Memorial Hospital, 1961. A graphotype is used to emboss characters onto metal plates. These were probably used to label furniture and medical equipment; some of our older furniture at the Library is tagged with little metal plates. This cabinet in our assistant’s office was discarded by UTMB many years ago. IC 103 Memorial Hospital Photographs, P-302-001.

Texas Medical Center founders Frederick Elliott, R. Lee Clark; Julia Bertner standing in for Ernst Bertner, and William Bates, undated but circa 1960s. We aren’t sure what the occasion was but it must have been a big deal. Dr. Bertner died in 1950. MS 002 Ernst William Bertner, MD.

Sylvia Van Vost Ferris and Eleanor Sellers Hoppe, Scalpels and Sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas; Eakin Press, Austin, 1985. This is available at the MHC in the McGovern Reference Collection.