C. Healthcare Institutions

Photograph of the Interior of TB Sanatorium | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Tuberculosis was a serious disease of the 19th century that claimed many lives. Known also as "consumption," it was highly contagious, as well as requiring complete rest for recovery. South Carolina's...

Nurses Stand in Front of the Baker-Dick Infirmary | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Health care required the training of medical personnel. A number of hospitals in South Carolina offered programs in nursing training early in the 20th century, mostly in an apprenticeship system of...

Roper Hospital | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

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Roper Hospital, named after a Charlestonian who willed extensive real estate to the Medical Society of South Carolina (see The Medical College Of South Carolina) for the establishment of a hospital...

South Carolina Baptist Hospital | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

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South Carolina Baptist Hospital, 1519 Marion Street, Columbia, as it appeared around 1960. The hospital had its beginnings on Marion Street as a private infirmary operated by Dr. Augustus B. Knowlton...

The Medical College of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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The Medical College of South Carolina, postcard view in 1909. Physicians in Charleston organized a Medical Society of South Carolina in 1789, and the organization became an important promoter of many...

Contents of a Physician's Black Bag | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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The contents of a physician's black bag are spread out in the medical supply room in Beaufort when the Red Cross set up emergency relief headquarters after a devastating hurricane in 1892. Courtesy of...

James B. Edwards | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

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James B. Edwards was a dentist before he was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican Governor of South Carolina in 1974 (see Inauguration Of James B. Edwards). At the end of his term as...

Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 8

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African herbal medicine traditions remained an important part of health care practices in the slave communities. Even after the war, when the Freedman's Bureau and northern educators tried to teach...

The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

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Hookworm was a serious medical problem for the rural poor in South Carolina. The parasite infected individuals who picked it up through barefoot contact in infested soil; open-backed privies helped...

Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Many of the endemic diseases that had killed children and young adults were gradually eliminated through better sanitation and medical immunization by the mid-20th century, but others remained. Here...

Richard Furman's Recipe to Cure Dysentery | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 11

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Endemic disease in 19th century South Carolina, and the general primitiveness of medical knowledge, led to high death rates. Here is Richard Furman's recipe for pills to cure dysentery: "A Recipe for...