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Really, it's useful
Really, it's useful

Really, it's useful

Date9/10/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Really, it's useful: It's not exactly a fashionable thing to wear, but then it wasn't designed to be. The drum is a revolving piece of machinery that gives the same effect as watching telephone poles whizz by as you sit in a train. Doctors at University of Toronto use it to check for brain lesions.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0025586F
Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)
Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)
12/11/1968
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
12/11/1968
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
10/9/1973
Before taking her son home, Mrs. Lierosara has to learn how to change the teflon tube Mark must still wear in his trachea and how to handle the plus i(...)
Before taking her son home, Mrs. Lierosara has to learn how to change the teflon tube Mark must still wear in his trachea and how to handle the plus i(...)
11/1/1968
Help for the Heart, Wearing nose mask that uses his body heart to warm the air he breathes, heart patient Denis Colwell leaves Toronto's Rumsey Road R(...)
Help for the Heart, Wearing nose mask that uses his body heart to warm the air he breathes, heart patient Denis Colwell leaves Toronto's Rumsey Road R(...)
2/4/1970
Whole body counter, one of medicine's most sophisticated machines, scans body of Patricia Bond for radioactivity, and then relays the count to a compu(...)
Whole body counter, one of medicine's most sophisticated machines, scans body of Patricia Bond for radioactivity, and then relays the count to a compu(...)
3/12/1969
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
8/25/1987
Reducing risk: X-ray technician Marie Kiley prepares to do a mammogram on a patient at a Scarborough clinic
Reducing risk: X-ray technician Marie Kiley prepares to do a mammogram on a patient at a Scarborough clinic
1/30/1992
Step three: Dr. Leo Mahoney, director of St. Michael's breast diagnosis clinic, operates a $29,000 infra red, closed circuit TV camera called a thermo(...)
Step three: Dr. Leo Mahoney, director of St. Michael's breast diagnosis clinic, operates a $29,000 infra red, closed circuit TV camera called a thermo(...)
9/17/1973
Microchip contains SP
Microchip contains SP
2/7/1995
First paramedics
First paramedics
4/9/1984
Space-age outfits: Dr. Mohamed Mahdy, right, and technologist Wilson Chaing wear encapsulating suits needed in the event of a spill in the new lab
Space-age outfits: Dr. Mohamed Mahdy, right, and technologist Wilson Chaing wear encapsulating suits needed in the event of a spill in the new lab
8/12/1995