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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(...)
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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
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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(...)
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Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
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First paramedics
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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
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Dr Mohammed Mahdy & Wilson Chaing in Super-Sealed lab for dangerous exotic diseases
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Brian Lachapelle is given geiger counter test by Dr. R. J. Slater
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Genius or quack?, Bronx zoologist Lawrence Burton stand beside a spectrophotometer he uses to research his controversial cancer therapies. His best te(...)
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Young patient gets an outing, Four-year-old Joann Armsworthy, who's in Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment, gets a ride through Allan Gardens yes(...)
Young patient gets an outing, Four-year-old Joann Armsworthy, who's in Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment, gets a ride through Allan Gardens yes(...)
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A victim of the lung disease emphysema, Hilliard Thompson Biggar walks along the street with his portable oxygen system
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