Medical Design & Outsourcing has made an annual effort during “spooky season” to shed light on some early medical devices and innovations and the museums that hold them, but this year is a bit different. Last year, we visited the Earl Bakken Museum’s backroom to get a look at early medical devices. A few years ago, we […]
Mütter Museum
5 medical device history museums you should know
Each year around Halloween, Medical Design & Outsourcing puts together a list of antique medical devices that might make you glad to be alive today. Historically, medical devices could be scary and unorthodox. Surprisingly, some people still thought them helpful until the FDA started preapproving devices in the 1970s. There are a handful of museums in the […]