Description

Five glass jars mounted in a metal holder. The five jars contain medical equipment, including gauze, applicators, cotton, bandages and tongue depressors. The original supplies fill all the jars except the one labeled bandages. This equipment was used by Reinald Johnson.Dr. Johnson was born in 1910 in Isanti, Minnesota. He studied medicine at the University of Minnesota and served in WWII. He opened his own practice in St. Louis Park in November 1946 and worked there until 1968. He was appointed County Coroner in 1952 when the sitting coroner was convicted on 229 counts of narcotics violations. Johnson also practiced at Swedish Hospital and Methodist Hospital.