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And thanks to the RHSV newsletter back in August, I have now seen the surviving Amherst #TB chalet! It is now being cared for by the Talbot Arts and Communications Museum/Talbot Arts & Historical Museum, in central Victoria. The museum doesn't seem to have an online presence, sadly.
(But, neither do the two chalets at St John's Park, in New Town, Hobart!)
I'm not sure if I keep finding about decorative uses for teeth, or if they keep finding me. But please enjoy the floor of the 1870s-built grotto at Werribee Mansion.
That's not a mosaic tile floor, it's sheep vertebrae, and apparently sheep and human (children's) teeth!
I had no idea about this!
The latest Royal Historical Society of Victoria newsletter has a piece about the Amherst hospital, including an extant #TB chalet.
It's been preserved and is now up in Maryborough! I only knew about the surviving chalets in New Town, Hobart (pictured in 2017).
Check it out here: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/publications/history-news/
Has anyone written about the fashion/#industry of #Acacia aneura (mulga wood) timber #knickknacks in (I'm guessing) early 20th century Australia? I can't find much at all, but they're near omnipresent in op shops these days!
Images from Museums Victoria's collections. Cribbage board photographed by Taryn Ellis.
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1557631
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1741065
(Be aware that the above links go to pages discussing a racist slur used in the items' brand name.)
If you're curious about the sputum bottles, there is an amazing website dedicated to the topic: https://blauerheinrich.jimdofree.com/
(Photo of a "Mignon" flask, from the Rätisches Museum in Chur, Switzerland. By Paebi, Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RM_Blauer_Heinrich.jpg)
Der Erfinder dieses praktischen Hilfsmittels war der Arzt Peter Dettweiler (1837-1904), der 1876 die Leitung der neu gegründeten Lungenheilanstalt „Falkenstein“ im Taunus übernahm und sich dort für die Etablierung der Liegekur Verdienst erwarb. 1889, nur wenige Jahre nach der Erstbeschreibung der Tuberkulosebazillen, stellte er auf dem 8. Kongress für Innere Medizin in Wiesbaden das von ihm entwickelte Fläschchen vor. Hergestellt wurde es von der Firma Noelle & Co. in Lüdenscheid, die es für 1 Mark 50 vertrieb. Vermutlich sind zwischen 1889 und 1940 mehr als eine halbe Million Taschenspuckflaschen hergestellt worden. Nur sehr wenige Exemplare sind erhalten geblieben.
And then there's this line drawing of a Blauer Heinrich (blue Henry), a style of pocket spittoon for people to keep the things they cough up, rather than spitting it anywhere.
(Is there a similar name in English, to the Blauer Heinrich? I don't know!)
Photo of Dr Dettweiler's Pocket Spittoon copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY.
I can't stop thinking about this newspaper article's artwork, about the hazards of tuberculous people spitting, and how to clean it away, which it had taken from the London Daily Mail. I want to know what the other images were!
"EXPECTORATION." The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930) 27 June 1903: 10. (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237546339)
When this century opened scientists of all countries declared a, war against two of mankind's greatest enemies, cancer and tuberculosis. The announcement was received ...
