This and other medical trivia, plus fascinating bits of Buffalo lore, can be found in a newly published collection of photographs and facts titled "Another Era: A Pictorial History of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1846-1996."

Published in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the medical school, it is available at sesquicentennial events and at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. The volume is as much of a compendium of 19th- and 20th-century life in Western New York and the development of its important medical institutions as it is the history of the medical school.

Among other questions the book answers:

Q. How long was President William McKinley in surgery after being shot in Buffalo in 1901 at the Pan American Exposition?

A. 91 minutes.

Q. What Western New York community lost two-thirds of its population in an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1843?

A. North Boston

The 292-page, hardcover volume contains 250 photographs, including images of Park operating at the turn of the century; The Buffalo General Hospital's women's ward circa 1886 with its potbellied coal stove, and scenes in Buffalo during the nation-wide influenza epidemic of 1918-19. It chronicles the early days of medicine in Western New York, beginning with the arrival in 1801 of Cyrenius Chapin, the city's first physician, through the founding of the UB medical school in 1846 as the first component of the University of Buffalo. It transports the reader, via photos and short text, through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, detailing the development of Buffalo's hospitals, important medical discoveries by Buffalo physicians and medical advancements.

The pictorial history was produced by an eight-member committee headed by Ronald E. Batt, UB clinical professor of gynecology and obstetrics, and was published by The Donning Co., Virginia Beach, Va. It is dedicated to the medical-school faculty, both volunteer and full time, and to all UB medical school graduates. The book sells for $39.95.