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Roper Hospital | History of SC Slide Collection
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...
James B. Edwards | History of SC Slide Collection
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
Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection
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...