Career

When starting his private practice of surgery in Saint Paul, MN he lived and worked at Anoka State Hospital with Peggy and young children. Anoka housed the criminally insane there and many patients had Tuberculosis. This was the pre-antituberculosis drug and pre-antipsychotic drug era. Many patients required surgery for TB and many had mental illness symptoms that were out of control. It was at Anoka State Hospital that he performed surgeries referred to in his list of publications. He practiced for 40 years at Lowry Medical Arts, died in 1996 of B-cell Lymphoma.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Clinoptikon Visual Guide to Anatomy for Patients

Coleman Connolly saw more Tuberculosis Patients than many as a physician in the 1950s to 1980s. He frequently operated on TB  patients as medications were not available or effective in the 1950s. At Anoka State Hospital he operated on mentally ill patients as well, apparently this was not the usual routine. More about the history of Tuberculosis here: http://www.umdnj.edu/ntbc/tbhistory.htm

 These color plates are from a small Schering Drug Company sponsored book to explain tuberculosis and other lung diseases to patients. It was probably used frequently in a chest surgeon' office.
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