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Today in Smithsonian History: October 14, 1983

Medical sciences curator Audrey Davis poses on a turn-of-the-century Zander exercise machine in the exhibit "Pain and Its Relief" on the National Museum of American History's first floor. (Photo by Jeff Tinsley, as featured in the Torch, June 1989)

Medical sciences curator Audrey Davis poses on a turn-of-the-century Zander exercise machine in the exhibit “Pain and Its Relief” on the National Museum of American History’s first floor. (Photo by Jeff Tinsley, as featured in the Torch, June 1989)

October 14, 1983  The exhibition Pain and Its Relief, an examination of mankind’s attempts to understand, combat, and alleviate pain, opens at the National Museum of American History.

Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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