The Doctor's Office contains a lot of physician equipment and drug store items, including bottles, labels, pills, salves, soap, and medicine. On the wall near the back is a pill maker. The doctor would mix up a paste and put it in the holes. When it dried, the paste would be removed, and the hardened paste would be the pills the doctor would dispense.
The instrument on the far right was for bloodletting. Sometimes, they did not know what else to do, so they would just poke a hole in your skin and hope the "bad blood" would escape. The chair is Doc Stewart's examining chair. It folds out so that you'd be in a reclining position. Your feet went in the stirrups. The desk belonged to a minister in Middle Lancaster. It was purchased in 1900 when he graduated from the seminary.
The switchboard was used in Zelienople until 1963. A section of it is in Harrisburg, as Zelienople was the last town in Pennsylvania to switch over to the dial system.
The chair is from a barber shop in Evans City. Haircuts were $.25 in 1914. Men frequently went to get shaved, leaving their mugs with their names on them at the shop. On the bottom shelf is a mustache cup. Men could drink using this without getting their mustaches wet or hair in their coffee.
The doctor's black bag with more pills and medicine are in the case. The amputation kit contains small knives and saws. A joint or limb might have to be removed if it can't be stopped from spreading an infection. You would be lucky if you had whiskey or liquor to ease the pain.
