Wednesday, September 4, 2019

NMHM and research on Einstein's brain

Expert Interest in Albert Einstein's Brain

SEPTEMBER 03, 2019

MD Magazine

https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/expert-interest-in-albert-einsteins-brain

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

NMHM digitizing bones

Modernizing Medical Museums through the 3D Digitization of Pathological Specimens

Kristen Pearlstein, Anatomical Collections Manager and Brian Spatola, Anatomical Curator | June 6, 2019

https://www.medicalmuseum.mil/micrograph/index.cfm/posts/2019/modernizing_medical_museums_through_the_3d_digitization_of_pathological_specimens

Thursday, August 1, 2019

NMHM 'vampire' skeleton featured in Washington Post

A 'vampire's' remains were found about 30 years ago. Now DNA is giving him new life.

By Michael E. Ruane

July 31 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/31/vampires-remains-were-found-about-years-ago-now-dna-is-giving-him-new-life/

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

AFIP and NMHM mentioned in memo as having aliens from Roswell

'Fake' Roswell alien autopsy video was REAL and CIA scientist saw
proof at Pentagon briefing ...
The Sun
... reveals alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at
Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in
Washington DC ...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Indiana Medical History Museum profiled

Former mental hospital houses medical museum

South Bend Tribune

INDIANAPOLIS — In the shadows of old wooden bookcases sit jars filled with embalming fluid preserving decades-old brains that have signs of ...

https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/former-mental-hospital-houses-medical-museum/article_37504499-04f9-5a9d-bde9-b14b5560fdf8.html

Sunday, March 24, 2019

NMHM and Dittrick curators on medical equipment

Left to their own devices

A look at the evolution of five now-essential medical tools.

Friday, March 22, 2019 |by Lindsay Kalter, Staff Writer

https://news.aamc.org/research/article/left-their-own-devices/

Friday, February 22, 2019

McGill honors Maude Abbott with a plaque

After honouring 99 men, McGill medical building recognizes pioneer Maude Abbott

Refused entry to McGill medical school because she was a woman, Abbott went on to work for the university

Sarah Leavitt · CBC Feb 21, 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maude-abbott-honoured-1.5028047

NMHM sued for access to collection

Innocence Project sues museum for access to archives on 'tragically flawed' bite-mark evidence

By Debra Cassens Weiss

ABA Journal February 21, 2019,

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/innocence-project-files-first-amendment-suit-over-denied-access-to-museums-bite-mark-archives

The Innocence Project has sued the federal government's National Museum of Health and Medicine for denying it access to archival information on the history of bite-mark analysis.....

Friday, February 8, 2019

The Washington Post's Express paper reviews the National Museum of Health and Medicine

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a fascinating nightmare

By Sadie Dingfelder

Who are we?

Mike Rhode was the chief archivist of the Museum from 1989-2011, and is the founder of this blog. I maintain an interest in the course of the museum, and will be posting relevant information.

The Army Medical Museum was founded in 1862 during the American Civil War. After World War II, a parent-child relationship was inverted and the Museum became part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Since then, the Museum has moved around Washington, stopping for years in Ford's Theatre, and on the National Mall where the building it shared with the National Library of Medicine once stood, until it was demolished in 1968 for the Hirshhorn Museum. For 35 years it was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and now is in Silver Spring, MD.

So what about that blog name?

It's historical. I found it in a quote from one of the former curators. World War II confirmed the Army Medical Museum's primary role in pathology consultation. James Ash, the curator during the war and a pathologist, noted, "Shortly after the last war, more concerted efforts were instituted to concentrate in the Army Medical Museum the significant pathologic material occurring in Army installations." He closed with the complaint, "We still suffer under the connotation museum, an institution still thought of by many as a repository for bottled monsters and medical curiosities. To be sure, we have such specimens. As is required by law, we maintain an exhibit open to the public, but in war time, at least, the museum per se is the least of our functions, and we like to be thought of as the Army Institute of Pathology, a designation recently authorized by the Surgeon General."

After the war, it evolved into the tri-service Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

A Repository for Bottled Monsters

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