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unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:09 pm
by 78recordpicker
from the Library of Congress Website:
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:08 pm
by Governor Flyball
I wonder wonder what they would play? The acoustical recording process did not lend itself to call or subtle music.
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:26 pm
by barnettrp21122
Maybe "Uncle Josh Has An Appendectomy?"
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 11:31 pm
by 52089
Can you post a direct link or a scalable copy? I can't read it at all...
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:57 am
by AZ*
Agree. Too small to see.
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:46 am
by JerryVan
I believe the first sentence reads, "Surgical operations are actually being performed to musical accompaniment in Pennsylvania". "A new and valuable agent in surgery"
Like doctors playing music in surgery today apparently. Though perhaps not so sterile...
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:29 pm
by drh
barnettrp21122 wrote:Maybe "Uncle Josh Has An Appendectomy?"
Alas, Rameau's "The Gall Bladder Operation" wasn't recorded back then.
"Mack the Knife," maybe.
Or perhaps the "Wiener Blut" ("Vienna Blood") waltz by Johann Strauss.
One hopes not "If I'm going to die, I'm going to have some fun."
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:28 pm
by Retrograde
Re: unusual medical use for the Victrola
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 4:46 pm
by Phono48
Hopefully "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead!"