Another wonderful display at the Museum. The Doctors!
The ones who set your broken bones, assisted you and your family as a new child was being born. They removed your gall bladders, and appendix. They were there when sudden illness descended on a family member. Sewed together the deep cuts you got in a car or job-related accident.
Did Dr. Bauer make a house call to your house? Were you born at home!!
Were you a Lundmark Baby? Were you at the reunion of all the Babies Dr. Lundmark delivered that reunion held at the Ladysmith High School?
Was Dr. Murphy your family physician? Was he the Doctor your Mom went to when she was waiting for you to be born?
Or was it Dr. Pagel?
Most of us came into this world with the help of one of these Physicians.
On display at the Rusk County Historical Society...Dr. Bauers Obstectrical Bag and Instructions for the New Mothers...
Dr. Lundmarks Medicine Chest used in his office.
Uniforms !! One worn by Dr. Pagel.
Dr. O Conners Examination table, which many Rusk County residents have sat on. Doctor O Conner started his Medical Practice in Tony, Wisconsin. Welcome to the Museum you never know what you will see or what you will learn. ... See more

1952 was a bad year for Polio...says one of the few remaining survivors that still live inside an Iron Lung.
When I went to school in the 60s I remember a few kids, but not many that had visibly been touched by the disease. The ones of course that were worse off remained at home and some lived their life in an Iron Lung.
When you look inside the body of this machine it's a scary place, but it kept you alive and breathing by using negative pressure to make your lungs take in air.
Can you imagine having to live most of your life inside this glass and metal tube from the age of 6 or 7?
Just remembering the early 1950s and looking at this Iron Lung, brings to mind how those of us that never had to worry about Polio or Infantile Paralysis, how very lucky we really were.
My own Uncle Paul died of Polio never getting past the age of 14.
Dr.Jonas Salk discovered the Vaccine in 1952 or 53, that has kept generations of us safe from this horrible disease that destroys your muscles, takes away your ability to walk and then to breathe.
This Iron Lung is on display in the Vintage Building along with other Medical Devices at the Rusk County Historical Society Museum.
Check the comments below for the Interview with the man still in the Iron Lung
and check out the article from the Ladysmith News from 1952 and the March of Dimes Drive in Rusk County..... ... See more

Native American Raffle winners

Second Prize winner - Chloe Rogers
(set of Michael Perry books)
Third Prize winner – Veronica Prosnicky, Ingram

(“Eagles” driftwood art piece)

Native American Raffle winners