Henry R. Winkler Center Newletter, Fall 2018

Fall 2018

THIS ISSUE

Chair’s Letter

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Striker Lecture pg 2

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

UC Scholars

ALHHS

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Native Voices

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Lucy Oxley

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Adopt-A-Book pg 8 Collections

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Board Changes pg 9 In Memoriam

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Advisory Board pg 12

FEATURED EXHIBIT Humble Beginnings and Boundless Visions: Early Pediatrics and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, 1880-1935

Dear Friends of the Winkler Center...

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elcome back! I hope your summers were full of rest and reinvigoration and that you are ready to move into autumn. Much has happened at the Winkler Center over the last several months; far too much to put into just one newsletter, but allow me briefly to introduce some of the highlights.

The Winkler Center continues to be a site of ongoing scholarship and learning. It continues to give tours, workshops, and to work with professors across campus to build curriculum materials and provide primary sources for students. For instance, in this issue you will read about a day-long trip to the Winkler Center by 15 high school students from Hughes High School as part of the UC Scholars program.

Philip Diller, MD, PhD; Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at the University of Cincinnati

Also, the Winkler Center seeks to enhance its holdings and this year has added two very sought after collections; the Robert Smith MD Papers and the Lucy Orintha Oxley MD Collection. The Lucy Oxley Collection is detailed below. In addition, the Winkler Center continues to collaborate with other departments and colleges on the health campus to document and preserve their respective histories. In the following pages you will read about two very successful recent outreach events, the Cecil Striker Lecture and the Native Voices Exhibit, which saw collaborations not only with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center but also with the Biological Sciences Department here at UC, the Lloyd Library, Northern Kentucky University, and many other academic and community partners.

Last spring, we saw the passing of two very dear friends. First Billie Broaddus, long-time director of the Winkler Center passed on February 16, 2018. It was Billie who introduced me to the Winkler Center collection and shared that it is one of the top three collections in the United States of medical books from the 1800s. She also pointed me to the Center’s collection of Daniel Drake resources. We owe a great deal to her stewardship and advocacy for the Winkler Center. In addition, on March 10, 2018, we also lost collection donor and perpetual Winkler Center champion, Ira Abrahamson MD, faculty member in the Department of Opthalmology.

Please take a minute to read their obituaries at the end of this issue.

Enjoy this edition of the newsletter. Read below for information on all of the above and much more.

And of course, thank you all for your continued support.

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The Cecil Striker Society Annual Lecture Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions and the Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine hosted the 9th Cecil Striker Society Annual Lecture on Thursday, May 3, 2018. This year’s lecture, presented by Michael Farrell, MD, and Bea Katz, PhD, and titled Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Impacting the Health of Children in Our Community and the World: The Past, Present and Future, focused on the contributions and historical relevance of pediatrics in the Cincinnati region with a primary focus on Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

The evening included the presentation with time for a lively audience Q&A and was immediately followed by a reception outside the Winkler Center, and the opening of the Winkler Center’s new exhibit, Humble Beginnings and Boundless Vision: Early Pediatrics and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, 1880-1935, in the Stanley J. Lucas, MD, Board Room. There were approximately 100 persons in attendance.

The Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions gratefully recognizes the generosity of the following individuals and organizations who have provided significant support to establish the Cecil Striker Lecture Endowment Fund. This endowment fund is a vital permanent resource which exists to strengthen the annual lecture program.

Presenting Sponsor Dr. and Mrs. Carl Fischer Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Dr. John E. Bossert Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Supporting Sponsor UC Health Additional support for the event provided by Dr. and Mrs. William B. Camm, Cincinnati Pediatric Society, Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell, and Cecil L. Striker, PhD.

Bea Katz and Michael Farrell prepare for presentation.

Bea Katz and Michael Farrell pose for a photo before heading into Kresge Auditorium.

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More Images from the Cecil Striker Society for the History Images (Clockwise from top left): Mrs. Penina Frankel, Mrs. Bea Winkler and Mrs. Judith Lucas pose for a photo with Associate Director of the Winkler Center, Lori Harris; Bea Katz and Michael Farrel discuss the future of Children’s Hospital; Dr. Myles Pensak, H.B. Broidy Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, and Dr. Phil Diller, Chair and Fred Lazarus Jr. Endowed Professor of Family and Community Medicine, introduce the evening’s speakers; Audience members engage in post-presentation Q&A; Winkler Center exhibit cases

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Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library University of Cincinnati Libraries

231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574

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UC Scholars The Winkler Center would like to thank Nandita Baxi Sheth (DAAP) and the University of Cincinnati Scholars Program for seeking its participation in the Summer 2018 Scholars Program titled Artifact from the Future: A Trans Disciplinary Critical Inquiry Experience.

We hope the students enjoyed not only their Winkler Center experience, but also the rest of their time here at UC. We hope to see them here in the future.

The Scholars Program brought Hughes STEM High School 10th and 11th grade students to the University of Cincinnati for a two-week residential, immersive summer critical thinking experience that: •

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built skills through problem based and experiential learning activities provided exposure to multiple UC Colleges and pro grams, degrees, and careers provided on campus residential living experience introduced community and industry partners developed mindfulness and self-care practices developed collaborative, leadership, and study skills

The program planned all these learning activities and experiences through a lens of thematic inquiry. The theme of inquiry for the summer ‘18 Scholars was a deep consideration of the future. Using a wide-range of multimedia and disciplinary approaches including the anthropocene, speculative fiction, science fiction, afrofuturism, and technology, students delved into prospective world scenarios and dystopian futures, and were charged with developing artifacts from that future.

UC Scholars look at primary source materials in the Winkler Center.

One stop for the group was the Winkler Center. Here, curator Gino Pasi, gave a workshop for the students which included an introduction to archives, curatorship and public history, and a brief overview of what it is the Winkler Center actually does. Students then were introduced to health science-related artifacts from the past.

After that, four teams of scholars were created and each team received an artifact to examine, describe, and then use in a story, play, poem, or some other written work to be presented at the end of the workshop. The Winkler Center objects given to the students included the “iron lung,” an electro-convulsive therapy unit, a baby incubator from the 1950s, and a “quackery” cure-all from the 1930s called the Electraply. Amazingly, each team described and guessed the proper uses of each artifact without any hints or clues.

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Scholar teams work with their own primary sources

Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library University of Cincinnati Libraries

231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574

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Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 9-11, 2018 In May, Winkler Center Archivist/Curator, Gino Pasi, presented at the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) Annual Meeting, in Los Angeles, CA. The meeting included a number of great panels, papers, and tours of a variety of UCLA libraries and other sites of interests to academics, librarians, archivists and curators working in health history. Gino’s presentation examined the challenges of building a more diverse archive, and repository, as it relates not just to race and gender, but also to the other health sciences.

Poster from the HIV/Aids project in the collection of Archives and Special Collections, UC San Francisco.

Archivist/Curator, Gino Pasi (center), sits on panel with Aimee Madeiros (UC San Francisco), Catherine Arnott Smith (The Information School, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and John Rees (National Library of Medicine.

Russel Johnson (Curator, History & Special Collections for the Sciences) at the Louise Darling Biomedical Sciences Library shows tour-goers a first edition of Darwin’s Origin of the Spieces.

CONTACT INFORMATION Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions

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231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574

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Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness On Thursday, July 26, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness opened at the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library. This traveling exhibit, created and sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, with support from the University of Cincinnati Office of Equity and Inclusion and Community Impact, was on display in the library for six weeks. The exhibit opening was preceded by a keynote address in the atrium of the CARE/ Crawley Building by Suzanne L. Singer, PhD., Mechanical Engineer in the Computational Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A reception followed the address. The attendance far outnumbered even the most generous projections.

Preceding the opening night event was a “soft” opening with the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library collaborating with other UC libraries for a pre-school and kindergarten program highlighting The Kretschmer Collection of Native American Children’s Literature, supported by Rick and Laura Kretschmer.

Following the keynote presentation, six weeks of supplemtary educational programming followed. On Thursday, August 2nd, Rebecca Wingo, PhD., presented Preventing Tuberculosis while Regulating Indigenous Bodies. Wednesday, August 6, Madeleine Fix, led a discussion on Cincinnati’s Public Landing, the Measles, and Wyandot Removal. Other educational programming included Patricia Van Skaik, Ethnobotany and Medicinal Practices in the Pacific Islands; T. Eric Bates, Breaking Bread: A Perspective of Fry Bread and Native Health; and Theresa Culley and Eric Tepe, The Contribution of Native Voices to Medicine through Botany.

Images below (clockwise from top left): Exhibit-goer listens to oral histories at a Native Voices station; Suzanne Singer meets with attendees prior to her presentation; Singer and her father pose in front of a poster for the event. Suzanne Singer presents energy data on Native populations.

CONTACT INFORMATION Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions

Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library University of Cincinnati Libraries

231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574

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Lucy Orintha Oxley Event In November 2017, Ms. Janis Gomez, the granddaughter of Lucy Oxley, MD., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s first African American graduate, visited the Winkler Center with our Chair, Dr. Philip Diller. Ms. Gomez brought materials of her grandmother’s for a possible donation. Later in the spring, Ms. Gomez returned with her sister, Ann Smith, to officially donate the material assessed months earlier. This is an incredible collection donation as it relates to the history of the College of Medicine and African American medicine in Cincinnati. We thank Dr. Phil Diller, Chair of the Winkler Center Advisory Board, for setting up this meeting and connection. There will be an event at the Winkler Center on November 13, 2018 honoring the legacy of Lucy Oxley.

Please look for more information on the event in the coming weeks.

Images (clockwise from top right): Janis Smith-Gomez and Winkler Center Advisory Board Chair, Phil Diller stop for a picture in front of the Lucy Oxley Case in the Lucas Board Room; The grandchildren and great grandchildren of Lucy Oxley look over her materials; Some of the donated items; Photograph of the Freedmen’s Hospital Interns, 1935.

CONTACT INFORMATION Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions

Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library University of Cincinnati Libraries

231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574

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Adopt-A-Book Last year, the Winkler Center participated in UC Libraries' inaugural Adopt-A-Book program. The Adopt-A-Book program provides donors a unique opportunity to help contribute to the preservation of library materials.

Three books and two archival collections were added to the program. A new fundraising event is being planned for spring 2019. The following archival collections and book were all adopted.

The Mary Maciel Collection: Adopted by John and Suzanne Bossert, Dr. and Mrs. William B. Camm, and Peter and Sandra Stern in honor of John J. McDonough, MD. Mary Maciel was a medical illustrator who trained at Johns Hopkins University Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. While there, she studied under Max Brodel who is commonly thought of as the father of modern medical illustration. Maciel spent most of her career in Cincinnati and was instrumental in developing the Medical Illustration department in the College of Medicine here.

Opera omnia anatomica & physiologica, Hieronymus Fabricius of Auquapendente Hieronymous Fabricius (1537-1619): Adopted by Mary Ellen Betz, Dr. Louis Claybon, Robert and Lynne Kanter, and Tracy McMullen. Hieronymus Fabricius was an anatomist, physiologist, and surgeon who spent much of his career at the University of Padua. His works on the aforementioned subjects were numerous. His Opera omnia anatomiea et physiologica is a grand folio of nearly five hundred pages, illustrated by hundreds of figures, engraved on sixty-one full page plates. Thirtythree are devoted to his treatise on the formation of the foetus. The illustrations are marvelously accurate and detailed.

Cincinnati Historic Medical Colleges Collection: Adopted by Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell, and Mrs. Judith E. Lucas. This collection documents the early history of some of the early medical colleges in Cincinnati including the Miami Medical College, the Medical College of Ohio, and their respective mergers with the University of Cincinnati. Included in the collection are lecture cards, correspondence, faculty lists, commencement programs, board of trustees meeting minutes and much more.

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Collection Spotlight As commemorations for the 100th Anniversary of the First World War come to a close this November, we thought spotlighting a piece of history from that time period may be in order. The document below comes from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Patient and Operating Records Collection and is an old Cincinnati Hospital Death Records Ledger from 1918. A collection like this can be prime research material for a number of subjects, e.g. public health, genealogy, urban studies and much more.

Many of the soldiers returning to the United States came into contact with the deadly Spanish Flu, which by 1918 was a world-wide epidemic. The highly contagious nature of this strain of flu and the close proximity of soldiers in the trench warfare of the First World War, allowed the disease to spread rapidly among the military. Soldiers with mild strains of the virus were left in the trenches and those with severe illness were sent home. Making the trip back to the US, soldiers often infected many of those with whom they came into contact.

We don’t know for sure which of the names listed on these registers were those of veterans; that information is not provided. What is certain is that the flu epidemic of 1918 presented one more battle for soldiers and those on the homefront to withstand before the ensuing peace and prosperity of the 1920s.

Page after page in this register is full of deaths due to influenza. 131 people at Cincinnati Hospital in Novem-ber 1918 alone died of what was listed as “pneumonia following influenza.”

Advisory Board Changes This summer, longtime Winkler Center Advisory Board member, Steve Marine, resigned from the board. Steve retired as the associate dean of UC Libraries/executive director of the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions after 25 years at the University in 2015. Thankfully, he continued serving on the advisory board through the transition period of 2016. We thank him for his service and dedication and wish him well in his position now as a full-time grandpa.

With Steve’s departure, we welcome new board member Dr. Corwin “Chuck” Dunn. Dr. Dunn was the first director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Christ Hospital and served as the hospital’s director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1990-2000. He received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago. He pursued a medical residency here at the University of Cincinnati and the General Hospital under Dr. Richard Vilter. A year of infectious disease training under Dr. Morton Hamburger was followed by two years of further training at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. He returned to Cincinnati and completed his infectious disease fellowship under Dr. Gilbert Schiff. He was recruited to Christ Hospital by Dr. Bill Schreiner in the early 1970s and has remained there ever since. Welcome Dr. Dunn.

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In Memoriam

Dr. Ira Abrahamson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a swimming scholarship.

He received his medical degree from the UC College of Medicine in 1948, as did his sister, Margaret, in 1946 and his son, Richard, in 1987. He completed his internship at Cincinnati General Hospital and his residency at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. He served for a year in the U.S. Coast Guard and then in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War. Following military service, he returned to his native Cincinnati to practice with his father, Ira Abrahamson Sr., MD, who also was an ophthalmologist and on faculty at the UC College of Medicine.

A member of the UC faculty since 1964, Dr. Abrahamson rose to full professor before being named an emeritus professor in 2004.

Dr. Abrahamson became one of the first ophthalmic photographers in the world and invented several techniques to photograph the eye. Many of his images were used in his books on ophthalmology and eye care. He also traveled around the world lecturing, teaching and providing Ira Abrahamson at street naming ceremony in October 2016. vision care to disadvantaged children.

Dr. Abrahamson received numerous honors in his lifetime, including the College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008 and the President’s Award of Excellence in 2014 from the University of Cincinnati. In 2001, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of North Carolina, and in 2000 he was named an Outstanding Philanthropist by Boston Children’s Hospital. He was inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame in 2007 for his contributions to advancing the quality of life of others around the world.

He even had audiences with three popes: Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul II. Dr. Abrahamson had a tremendous impact on vision care, education and research for more than 60 years. He worked tirelessly to eliminate preventable blindness in children, not only here in Cincinnati but around the world. In 1995, he created the Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Working with the Cincinnati Rotary Club, the institute started the Vision Screening Program through Rotary International where 800 local chapters eventually joined in the program to detect vision problems in young children.

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In Memoriam The Winkler Center was saddened last February to learn of the passing of former Health Sciences Librarian and Director of the Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center, Billie Broaddus. Billie is remembered fondly by the colleagues who knew and worked with her. “She often used the ‘iron fist in the velvet glove and was able to achieve much through that approach,” remembered senior librarian Sharon Purtee.

From 1961 to 1971, Billie worked at the University of Kentucky Medical Library. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in History in 1973 and a M.S.L.S in Library Science in 1974. She began work at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Library in August 1974 as Head of Reference.

She later became the Coordinator of Information Services and then Head of the Health Sciences Library.

Serving a dual role in 1981, she directed both the Health Sciences Library and the History of Health Sciences Library. Later that year, she applied to become director of the historical collections, a job in which she could merge her love of history with her library experience.

She held the position of Director, UC Medical Heritage Center until her retirement in 2003. Billie was professionally active in several organizations and was elected President of the Midwest Chapter/ Medical Library Association in 2001. Billie was also a member of the Archivists and Librarians in History of the Health Sciences and the Ohio Academy of Medical History, the American Association for the History of Medicine, the Ohio Academy of Sciences, the Society of Ohio Archivists and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine History Committee.

During her tenure as Director, the archives of alumni and faculty including, Drs. William Altemeier, Benjamin Felson, Martin Fisher, and Robert Kehoe were all added to the repository’s holdings. Forging personal relationships with the Sabin family, she was instrumental in bringing the Albert B. Sabin Papers to the center. In addition, Billie supervised the centralization into one repository of the many decentralized historical collections of the departments within the College of Medicine.

She was adamant too that because the Heritage Center served a different audience than the Health Sciences Library, the two institutions keep somewhat distinct identities. In the early 1990s as the UC Billie Broaddus with Heloisa Sabin at the dediLibraries developed an online presence for its collections, Billie made cation of the Albert B. Sabin Historical Marker. sure the Heritage Center was given its own webpage. Under Billie’s leadership, the Medical Heritage Center became a preeminent resource center for the history of the health sciences. She served the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Libraries for almost 30 years and was appointed Librarian Emerita when she retired from the University of Cincinnati in February 2003.

Another colleague, Edith Starbuck, remembers “Billie was a generous colleague [who] shared her knowledge and skills without hesitation…[she] also knew how to bring history to life with her wealth of knowledge and ability to tell the stories about the individuals whose information and artifacts were housed in the Heritage Center.

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2018 Advisory Board Members Philip M. Diller, MD, PhD, Chair Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine William E. Hurford, MD, Vice Chair Vice Chair, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine John Bossert, MD William B. Camm, MD Kenneth Davis, MD Professor of Surgery and Clinical Anesthesia, UC Health, UC Surgical Research Unit Corwin Dunn, MD Stewart B. Dunsker, MD Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati Michael K. Farrell, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Marie Garrison, MSN College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati Dan Hurley Marianne F. Ivey, PharmD, MPH, FASHP Professor Emerita, UC Pharmacy Practice Laura Kretschmer, EdD Professor Emerita of Audiology, College of the Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati Daniel N. Lucas, MD Diagnostic Radiologist, Arizona Medical Imaging Richard A. Pu Assistant Vice President, Public Relations and Communications, UC Academic Health Center Leslie Schick Sr. Associate Dean, Director, Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library and Henry R. Winkler Center Xuemao Wang, MBA, MLIS Dean and University Librarian, University of Cincinnati Libraries Dennis B. Worthen, PhD Adjunct Professor, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati Creighton B. Wright, MD, MBA, FACS, FAHA Vice President, Mercy West

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231 Albert Sabin Way Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574