Dittrick Museum

Visit the Dittrick Museum of Medical History’s open house Saturday, Dec. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Attendees can get discounts on books and posters from the museum store. Visit the online store to see available products. There also will be free cookies and punch at the open house....

The Dittrick Medical History Center & Museum will host the annual Rose & Anton Zverina Lecture Friday, Nov. 11, at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Ford Auditorium. Susan Lederer, the Robert Turell Professor and department chair of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wis...

The Dittrick Medical History Center & Museum will hold a Conversations series event on the topic of lead poisoning and industrial damages Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). MOCA exhibit curators and Scott Frank, director of the Master of Public Health p...

Before the 1870s, doctors couldn’t agree about what caused disease and accidentally introduced infection. President James A. Garfield’s death provides one tragic example. After Charles Guiteau shot the president, doctors prodded the wound with unsterilized hands and instruments, introducing sepsis....