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Title
James
Gardner
and the
Gardner
Chair
Photograph
Subject
Science and Technology
Medicine
Medical equipment & supplies
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Hospitals
Physicians
Chairs
Surgery
Place
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
from the
late
1960s
shows
Dr
.
James
Gardner
in the
operating
room
with a
patient
seated
in his
invention
, the
Gardner
craniotomy
chair
.
It
allowed
neurosurgeons
to
operate
on
parts
of the
brain
that were
difficult
to
reach
when
a
patient
was
lying
down
. The
prototype
of the
chair
was
constructed
at the
Cleveland
Clinic
in the
1930s
;
it
became
standard
equipment
in the
middle
decades
of the
20th
century
. The
photograph
measures
8
"
x
10
"
(20.32
x
25.4
cm)
.
Dr
.
James
Gardner
(1898-1987)
was
born
in
McKeesport
,
Pennsylvania
. He
graduated
from the
University
of
Pennsylvania's
medical
school
in
1924
, and
served
as
chief
of
neurosurgery
at the
Cleveland
Clinic
Foundation
from
1929
to
1962
(emeritus
1974-1987)
.
Gardner
was a
prolific
inventor
of
such
medical
devices
as
pneumatic
splints
,
alternating
pressure
pads
for the
prevention
of
bedsores
, and the
skull
clamp
, the
predecessor
of
modern
traction
devices
used
for
spinal
fractures
in the
neck
area
. He was also
famous
for his
skill
in
surgery
and in
teaching
surgical
techniques
to
neurosurgeons
in
training
.
Date of Original
1960s
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
neg. no. 3286
Submitting Institution
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Rights
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http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1817_1957234_001.tif
Image Height
5654
Image Width
3790
File Size
1200.485 KB
Format
picture
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