Navy Medicine in the Civil War and Today (featuring CAPT Teresa Dent, NC)
An unofficial blog about the National Museum of Health and Medicine (nee the Army Medical Museum) in Silver Spring, MD. Visit for news about the museum, new projects, musing on the history of medicine and neat pictures.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
RIP Norman Rich
He wasn't a historian of medicine, but his long-term longitudinal followups become a history of some sort. Of interest to us is his preservation of military medical material from the Vietnam War, including booby traps, which are now in the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Fragility of Man photographs
https://www.instagram.com/fragility_of_man
My neighbor Roger, as well as being a firefighter, is an artist. He's more in the momento mori tradition than a medical museum one, but I think readers here will enjoy these. It's a plastic skeleton of course.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Beneath the Sheets: Anatomy, Art and Power exhibit at Thackray Museum of Medicine
The shocking truth behind historic anatomical artDeborah Nicholls-Lee
Deborah Nicholls-Lee
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