Medical Case and Instruments

Dr. George T. Harding II used this "little black bag" during his medical practice. Its contents seem slim by modern standards, but many items, such as the stethoscope are still in use. Most doctors made house calls, and equipment had to be portable.Dr. Harding II founded Harding Hospital in 1916, then known as the Columbus Rural Rest Home. Orginally located in Columbus, the hospital moved to the fifty-acre Worthington campus in 1919. The name of the hospital changed to the Harding Sanitarium in the 1930s and subsequently Harding Hospital. In 1995 Harding Hospital was integrated into the Ohio State University Medical Center. Harding Hospital pioneered treatments that became standards for the profession while located in Worthington for eighty years.