Part 4 of the Oberlin Medical History series outlines the events from 1916 to 1934 including the doctors who practiced in town, the building of the new Allen Memorial hospital in 1925 and the contributions of Dr. Dudley Peter Allen and Elizabeth…
Part 3 of the Oberlin Medical History series outlines the events from 1893 to 1915 including doctors who practice in the small town, the beginning of the first hospital in 1907 in a rental house and newspaper articles and pictures of events and…
Part 2 of the Oberlin Medical History series outlines the events from 1865 to 1892 including the doctors who practiced in Oberlin and other local and world events in medicine. The arrival of Dr. Dudley Allen in town, his home and the young Dudley…
Part I of the Oberlin Medical History series outlines events from 1834-1864 including the beginning doctors in town and their relationship to the newly founded Oberlin College. Featured is Dr. James Dascomb and other early events in Oberlin as they…
This 48-minute documentary tells the story of the impending closure, but survival of the now successful Allen Memorial Hospital in Oberlin and the demise of the once successful multi-speciality group, the Oberlin Clinic. Excerpts from interviews of…
This 29-minute documentary celebrates the success of the Oberlin Clinic in 1992, thirty years after it was founded by seven physicians and a dentist to become the first and only multi-specialty group practice in Lorain County in the 20th century.
Dr. Caroline Still Anderson was a notable physician and advocate for black women’s health in the late nineteenth century. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1868 at the age of nineteen. She later attended the Women’s Medical College of…
This student curatedexplores the career of Sarah Furnas Wells, an 1865 Oberlin graduate who went on to become a doctor at a time when there were few female physicians. Oberlin awarded her an honorary L. B. degree in 1894.
