ANN ARBOR, MI — There are old unsterilized knives, wooden canes engraved with graduates’ names, a 1950s-era insulin travel kit and a nurse training manikin named “Mrs. Chase.”

One hundred and seventy five years of medical artifacts and their histories can be found until April 30 in one house in Ann Arbor.

The University of Michigan Medical School opened Sept. 14 an exhibit for the school’s 175th anniversary at the Museum on Main Street, 500 N Main St.

“People come through here with their own history and experience of what’s happened and we don’t expect to see everything on the walls, but we expect to see something that touches what matters to us, and that’s what happens when we tell these stories,” said Bev Willis, an administrator at the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

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