University Daily Kansan, October 13. 1981 Page 3 Doctors' black bags are medical tradition By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter When people think of a physician, they usually visualize someone in a white lace coat with a stethoscope, carrying a little black bag. Did you ever wonder where those little black bags come from, and what doctors carry in them? "I think it was something that just evolved." Bernice Dean Jackson, Glendening History of Medicine librarian, said Friday. She said that the bags had been around in one form or another as long as there had been physicians, perhaps ancient Greek physicians, and apocrites, the ancient Greek physician. "Doctors have always needed something, even if it was just a hand-kerchief, to wrap their equipment up and in carry it with them," she said. JACKSON MANAGES a small medical history museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center, along with the library. "We don't have much room here, so I have to rotate the displays about every three months," she said. "I put the collection of doctors' bags on display in winter. For some reason, it just seems like a winter-type display to me." Among the oldest bags in the collection are saddlebags from the late 1800s. Jackson said, however, that the earliest object in the museum that could be called a doctor's bag was a murderer. Roman vial from the time of Jesus. "The Roman barber-surgeon would put his instruments in it and strap it to his belt so he could carry it into battle with him," she said. FROM A BRONZE tube to sad- debaens to the little black bag. But the modern bags aren't always black, and they aren't always little, said Kathy Crump who stocks and sells the bags at the Med Center bookstore. "I have them in different sizes," she said. "They come in leather or vinyl, in black, brown or a new color, burgundy." Crump said that the bag sizes ranged from 12 to 16 inches and that there was a popular taller style bag called a "Boston bag." "Don't ask me why they call it that," she said. For all anyone knows, the name of the bag just evolved, like the style of the dress. THE BOOKSTORE sells the diagnostic equipment and the bags as sets at a special rate to first-year students who are required to buy them, she said. The cost of a bag without the equipment varies from $35 for a small leather bag to $54 for a burgundy Boston bag, Crump said. "They come to us at a suggested retail price, and that's what we sell them for," she said, "but some schools mark them up." Commission ponders development plans Two of the proposals call for an expansion of the city's department stores, while the third proposal favors an enclosed cluster of shops near Sgt. Preston on the North, 815 New Hampshire St. By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter The Lawrence City Commission will consider adopting a comprehensive plan for the development planned tonight at its regular meeting. "This plan is not chosen, concrete," he said. "Any developer that we choose has to have the ability to work within the plan and any changes that may be made after it is adotted." The plan, which contains three different proposals for downtown, was approved by the Lawrence Planning Commission last month. The Commission will also review a request by the Kansas Public Service Gas Company, 733 Massa St., for a 2.9 percent rate bikes. If the Commission accepts the plan, the proposals will be returned to the planning commission for final approval as an amendment to Plan '86. Hank Booth, chairman of the commission, said yesterday. Plan '95 is the city's master plan to which developments must conform. "I think that this is the plan we BOOTH SAID that any changes in the plan the Commission might make would be reviewed by the Board and will not be adopted at its next meeting, Oct. 28. will use to develop the downtown," Booth said. "The two options that call for more enclosed structures for shopping will probably be necessary in opposition from the East Lawrence Nigborhood Association." Another planning issue the commission will review is a request by Penn House, a non-profit neighborhood assistance center, to tear down its building at 1035 Virginia St. and build a new one. The Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the Commission Room at City Hall. EVERY TUESDAY Burrito Tostada Pintos 'n Cheese 39¢ each 1408 West 23rd St. good only at this location Sundundy Tauerkurzaty 10.000 A M; 1.000 A M; Frisufrid and Sundundy 10.000 A M; 2.000 A M Sunddundy Tauerkurzaty 10.000 A M; 1.000 A M; Frisufrid and Sundundy 10.000 A M; 2.000 A M Finals Begin in Eight Short Weeks! Will YOU Be Ready? The Academic Skill Enhancement Workshop will help you find time to study, read more effectively and get the most out of your remaining classes. Can you afford to miss it? Thursday, October 15 6:30-10:00 p.m. Strong Hall, Room 300 No Registration Necessary. Please bring a textbook. For more information call or come to the Student Assistance Center, 864-4064, 121 Strong Hall. FALL PERFORMANCE With Kurt Sigman, Composer/Guitarist Stephanie Hume, Soprano Jayne Casselman, Mezzo Soprano William Hiten, Ternor Jeffrey Note, Bartone Shirley McKamee and Randy Bush, pianist KAW VALLEY DANCE THEATER Kristin Benjamin Artistic Director Saturday Oct.17 8pm Sunday Oct.18 2pm Central Ir High School Aud 14th & Massachusetts Lawrence Central Jr High School Auditorium Adults $ 300 Senior Citizens & Students $: Children $ 20.0 this program is presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, in state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. a federal agency a non-profit organization On the record Burglaries stole $353 worth of property from a KU student's car at 1425 Tennessee St. early yesterday morning. Lawrence police said the stolen items included textbooks, clothing, two checkbooks, a backpack and a suitcase There are no suspects in the case and there is not known how the burglar entered the house. BURGLARS BROKE into two cars early Sunday morning, one at 1941 Stewart Ave. and one at 1918 Stewart about $800 worth of stereo equipment. Police said a screwdriver probably was used to open the car door in both burglaries. There are no suspects in either case. Senate shrinks by two seats The number of seats available in the Student Senate elections will be two less than the number Senate now has, elections officials said yesterday. Abbott said the changes were based on enrollment figures from the office of admissions and records. Gail Abbott, co-chairman of the Senate Elections Subcommittee, said that the number of seats would drop from 58 to 56. The group with the largest gain is the Nunemaker group, which consists of freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The number of Nunemaker senators will raise from 13 to 17. The number of senators there will drop from 12 seats to nine. The biggest drop in the number of senators for a school is in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which is made up of the juniors and seniors in "For every 400 students in each school, there is one representative in Student Senate," she said. Each school has a total count of one student representative. KINKO'S Other changes in the schools are: Education, from three seats to two; Fine Arts, from three seats to two; and special students, from two seats to one. That's us. And our xerox machines make the best quality copies in the world. For just 4c a page. And for dissertation copying, binding, or passport photos, no one else is as fast and good as us. No brag. 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We feel as though the intensity with which we are addressing our large work load is second to no program in the U.S. Our performance will be truly entertaining. We appeal to anyone interested in telming at our home meets to attend an organizational meeting at 3:30 pm, Oct. 14 (Wed) outside the "New" swim pool in the Robinson addition. If you are unable to attend this meeting but would like to help, please leave your name & phone # at: 864-4877 as soon as possible. Until then, cut out the schedule provided and fit the Hawks into your schedule. Finally, the Swim team wishes you success in reaching your goals and aspirations.