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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: November 14, 2009
Caption: Medical Equipment
Additional Description: Advancements in 19th century medical science not only improved treatments and medications but also medical equipment. Equipment, like this wheelchair, often improved the quality of life for many of the those afflicted by illness and coping with the effects of a debilitating disease. This wheelchair was used by Mattie Oates Macdonald of Blackstock, South Carolina in the late 1800s. Mattie developed chronic osteomyletis (a painful bone infection) of the knee in her late teens. This chair was acquired from an old hospital by her husband and shipped via train from Columbia, South Carolina to Blackstock.
Submitted: November 27, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p87313
File Size: 1.454 Megabytes

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