title: "A wealth of historical interest": the medical artifact collection at the University of Western Ontario.
abstract: Along with a teaching collection, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, began accepting medical artifacts for a historical museum in the early 1920s, although it never developed into more than an unofficial collection until the 1970s, when it was transformed into the Medical Museum and Archives at the University Hospital. In the 1990s, the artifacts were dispersed among several local institutions. The remaining objects at the university have been now reorganized as the Medical Artifact Collection. While these objects were once used to educate students about the practice and philosophy of medicine, they are now used to teach students about local, medical, Canadian and public history.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: Michelle A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D005544:Forecasting; D006666:History of Medicine; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009144:Museums / Q000266:history*; D009864:Ontario; D014495:Universities