| more information on the Touma Museum |
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Touma Museum of Medicine 314 Ninth Street Huntington West Virginia 25701 USA |
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| "A private medical museum that has weird antiquated doctor's equipment, such as foot-driven dentist drills and tonsil guillotines. It's run by Dr. Joseph Touma, who collected all these things." | |||
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| The Touma museum is a private medical history museum in downtown Huntington W Virginia USA. It was created by Dr Touma, a resident of Huntington who still works as a medic. The museum is on the 3rd floor at 314 9th Street You can only visit by prior invite and with an arrangement to be accompanied. I went in Jul 2012 as part of my grand tour. The acoustic ear trumpet display dominates the museum which includes 2 cars The items are laid out in 3 large free standing glass cases and 8 bench top displays If you look hard one more case becomes apparent with some 40 walking sticks. Most of them are acoustic aids, I don't know if all are as clearly I could not touch anything I estimated 400? (I am going to count the pictures) acoustic examples with virtually no duplications Many of them are not in the catalogues that I have seen Quite a few I have only seen at the Touma The displays are not formally catalogued with any descriptions or dates As a piece of social history this display must be protected for future generations My pictures will give you some idea why I thought going thousands of miles was worth my while. | |||
 My helpful minder Mr. Rahall |
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