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Ever wonder how doctors worked in the 1800s? This video explains the work of a typical doctor in a rural area at that time. For the most part, doctors treated patients in their homes with a few instruments and medicines. Check out the tools that are in the doctors bag! The image of Youngstown in 1876 is used courtesy of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society Archives (www.mahoninghistory.org)

This video features a breathing test from the 1940s called a Jones Motor Basal respirometer and a device used to treat tuberculosis by collapsing a lung.

Blood letting was a common medical treatment for many centuries. Learn why and how doctor's did it. This video includes instruments such as a fleam, lancet, and scarificator.

Learn all about this wooden x-ray machine made in 1929! Its a "Ventil Diax" manufactured by the Koch & Sterzel Company out of Dresden, Germany. Did you know it could also be used as a fluoroscope? You might ask: "What's a fluoroscope?!" Watch the video and find out!

Learn about 19th century amputation kits!

Learn about medical history using QR codes! Listen to doctors and nurses talk about how medicine has changed from the 1920s to today.

Learn all about the Iron Lung! This is an Emerson negative pressure ventilator from the early 1950s. Learn about its history, see how it works, and hear it run.

THIS VIDEO IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE TREATMENT FOR TAPEWORMS TODAY. The Rose Melnick Medical Museum makes no claims that this treatment was or is effective. Until the late 19th century most medicine was made by hand using natural ingredients. This simple tapeworm infection remedy was published in the 1881 book "A Medical Formulary" by Laurence Johnson, MD.

This video describes the medical history of the Mahoning Valley (OH) from 1800 to 1960 using exhibits and artifacts from the Melnick Medical Museum. It was made in partnership with the Mahoning Valley Historical Society.