Here’s a bookplate based on the Museum’s photograph #Reeve 85182-82 “Avoid Pickups”. You should get 4 per 8x10 page. Write your name in the white box and glue one into your book and you should get it back, or perhaps not even have the book borrowed in the first place.
Happy holidays
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 1872
Mssrs Richard Kny & Co.,
17 Park Place,
New York.
Gentlemen:
Will you have the kindness to inform me at an early date of the prices at which you will furnish the following preparatioins:
Osteological Preparations, Catalogue III
p. 3. Skull disarticulated, mounted according to Beauchene, bones untied by polished metal strips, screw movement.
p. 3 Ear with two cuts, internal and median.
p. 15. Skull of monkey, mounted after Beauchene.
Biological Preparations, Catalogue No. V, pp. 20 and 21.
I. Dissected Preparations.
Mus decumanus
Columba sp.
Lacerta agilis.
Rana fortis.
Tinca vulgaris.
Bombyx mori.
Astacus fluviatilis.
Helix pomatis.
II. Injected preparations.
Mus decumanus.
Columba sp.
Lacerta agilis.
Rana fortis.
Tinca vulgaris.
Astacus fluviatilis.
Helix pomatis.
Hiruda medicinalis.
III. Nerve Preparations.
Mus decumanus.
Columba sp.
Lacerta agilis.
Rana escuelenta.
Melolontha vugaris.
Hydrophilus piceus.
Astacus fluviatilis.
Very respectfully,
D.L. Huntington
Deputy Surgeon General, U.S. Army,
In charge of Mus. and Lib. Div.
Additional
Hiruda medicinalis, nerve prep.
Helix pomatis, “ “
Rene Le Berre, 78
Entomologist saved millions of Africans from river blindness
By Emma Brown
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121407707.html
Pictures of the disease from the MIS Library –
GSA relinquishes claim to Walter Reed property
By Jonathan O'Connell
Monday, December 13, 2010; 4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121006109_pf.html
This would include the AFIP Building (and its Museum space), the Rumbaugh parking garage and the hospital among others.
I’m posting about three pictures a day to Flickr from the Contributed Photographs collection. Many of these images are from the Civil War -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/sets/72157614294677868/
Smithsonian Institution, Dec. 8, 1869.
Dr. Geo: A. Otis;
Army Medical Museum
Dear Sir:
A gentleman in New York has offered us a Series of valuable Indian relics provided we can obtain for him a collection of the “Photographs of injuries to bones, and other surgical illustrations,” prepared under the direction of the Army “Medical Museum.” If you can furnish us with such a collection you will place us under an obligation which we shall be happy to reciprocate, as the series of relics offered contains many objects that we earnestly desire to posses.
Your obdt. Servant
Joseph Henry
Secty Smithn. Instn.
A.M.M. 6579 Section I
Santa Fe, N.M.
December 7th 1875
Surgeon General U.S.A.
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that I have this day delivered the remains of the hands of Srgt. Wm. Summers Co. “I” 15th Infy, for the Army Medical Museum, to Capt. J. H. Belcher Asst Quarter-Master Santa Fe, N.M. for transportation.
Very Respectfully
Your obedient serant,
T.A. McParlin
Surgeon U.S.A.
Vicksburg, Miss.
Dec 7 1868
Dear Col.
I have collected more than three hundred specimens, some of which are valuable, while others, I fear, may be deemed quite worthless. The pottery is fragile and the skulls are exceedingly frail, and though I have packed these articles which much care I am unwilling to forward them to you as ordinary freight without first asking your advice. While some of them may go safe enough I feel that others should be intrusted (sic) to the care of an express agent.
The field of observation in this valey (sic) is exceedingly large and I find I have only just broken ground. I feel assured of being able to make many and very valuable discoveries even with the means at my disposal. I have thus far procured details of soldiers and have expended about eighteen dollars. I think I could use five hundred to advantage. The fifty has not been received.
Very Respectfully
Yours +c
Eben Swift
Surg U.S.A.
To Geo. A. Otis
Bt. Lt. Col. + A. Surg U.S.A.
Curator Army Med + Surg. Museum
Washington D.C.
U.S. Army General Hospital,
McKim’s Mansion, Baltimore, Dec 6 1862
Surgeon Brinton U.S.A.
Sir,
I send to day per Express a box of specimens (dry). I have but 2 wet specimens, and I will send them when I get enough to make it an object. Most, if not all the specimens from the National Hospital have no name attached to them by which to designate the operator. But in Dr. Bartholon’s [?] time he performed all the operations himself. The specimens for this hospital are by myself. Those for the other places are also appropriately marked. I waited for my boxes to mount the dry specimens, but as they did not arrive I was unwilling to keep you without the preparations any longer. I shall be pleased to take particular pains in the future to collect every specimen that can be collected. No history can be obtained relative to the bones contained in a single package from the National.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
Lavington Quick
Surg. U.S.A.
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David’s Island N.Y. Harbor
Dec. 1. 1872
Sir,
Your communication of June 25th 1872, requesting the pathological specimen in the case of Pvt. Burroughs Co F. 7th Inf was not received until to day, it having been send to Fort Buford – thence misdirected to Fort Shaw, again forwarded to Fort Buford and finally sent from that post to me through the Surgeon-General’s Office.
In reply I would respectfully state that the pathological specimen in question, after having been dissected by Dr. Barbour and myself was retained some days while we endeavored to find a jar at once suitable for its preservation and safe transportation. The specimen being large we did not succeed and finally disposed of it by burying on the prairie at some distance from the post. It would now be impractical to recover it.
Very respectfully
Your Obedient servant
W. Matthews
Asst Surg. U.S. Army
Asst Surg Geo A. Otis. U.S.A.
Curator A.M.M.
Washington. D.C.
U.S. strategy for treating troops wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq: Keep them moving
By David Brown
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112702875.html
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by NPR Weekend Edition Sunday November 28, 2010
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-and finally the original short report –
Sheng Z-M, Chertow DS, Morens D, Taubenberger J. Fatal 1918 pneumonia case complicated by erythrocyte sickling [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Dec; http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/12/pdfs/10-1376.pdf
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November 22, 2010
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The "Contributed Photographs" collection, as it came to be known, consists of photographs donated or contributed to the Museum. Photographs arriving during and after the war were usually added to the Surgical Section and numbered like the bones were. Many photographs were sent by doctors who wished to see their cases included in the History. Doctors such as Reed Bontecou of Harewood Hospital in Washington, J.C. McKee of Lincoln General Hospital in Washington (who also provided surplus photographic equipment after the Museum's burglary), and J.H. Armsby of Ira Harris General Hospital in Albany, New York, contributed dozens of photographs at the end of the war. They received photographs from the Museum in exchange. Most of the photographs given to the Museum were albumen prints, but infrequently a tintype (a photograph printed on thin metal) was donated. (Otis to Lyster, May 11, 1866) Tintypes were never as popular as other photographs. (Welling, p. 117) Their dark background made medical subjects harder to see and reproduce in print.
Otis frequently wrote to surgeons requesting a photograph of a specific case which he would then have engraved for the History. He also wrote to patients asking them to have their wound photographed. Otis wrote to Charles Lapham, who had been with Co. K of the 1st Vermont Cavalry:
The interesting report of your case, which is recorded
in this office, leads me to desire to possess if possible, a
photograph which shall farther illustrate it. The Surgeon
General possesses photographs of a number of the very rare
cases in which patients have survived after the very grave
mutilation of the removal of both thighs, and has instructed
me to request you to have a photograph prepared, the expense
to be defrayed by this office.
It would be well to have two pictures taken: one
representing the stumps, the other the appearance with
artificial limbs attached.
The photographer might take two or three prints of each
to be retained by you, and then should forward the
negatives, carefully packed to this office, by express,
enclosing at the same time the bill for his services.
I enclose copies of a photograph of the size desired.
(Otis to Lapham, May 25, 1865)
Lapham had the work done and two photographs were added to the collection.
Otis commissioned physicians such as E.D. Hudson of New York City to take photographs for him. Writing to Hudson, Otis said "I am anxious to obtain photographs of double amputations of the thigh or leg and of other cases of unusual interest, and am willing to pay for such. I hereby authorize you to have photographs taken of cases of especial interest. As near as may be they should be uniform in size with those taken at the Army Medical Museum, of some of which you have copies." In the same letter, Otis sent a list of soldiers who had survived the operation of the excision of their humerus. Hudson, a maker of prosthetics, undoubtedly appreciated Otis' fulfilling his request for the names. Otis and Hudson's arrangements to look out for each others interests, resulted in striking photographs such as the two of Columbus Rush, a young Confederate from Georgia who lost both legs. (Otis to Hudson, February 7, 1866) Otis and Hudson cooperated so closely that Hudson was able to display his prosthetics in the Medical Department's exhibit at the Centennial fair. (Otis to Hudson, March 8, 1876)
For many years, these photographs received a Surgical Section number and were bound in volumes labeled Photographs of Surgical Cases. (Otis to Washburne, April 4, 1866) The photographs donated to the Museum were often rephototographed to be included in the Surgical Photograph series. Roland Ward's plastic surgery after the destruction of his lower jaw (SP 167-170, 186) is an example. Columbus Rush's photograph, in which he demonstrates his Hudson-made artificial legs, was copied and sent out as part of the series. Otis also purchased photographs from studios, buying "two dozen of the war views for the Museum" from E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (Otis to Anthony, September 25, 1865)
Contributors of photographs like Hudson also used the pictures themselves. Dr. Gurdon Buck is particularly noteworthy for his use of photographs. He had engravings made of "before and after" photographs for his 1876 text on plastic surgery, Contributions to Reparative Surgery. In the engravings, Buck used drawn lines to explain his operation. Buck deposited a set of his photographs in the Army Medical Museum soon after the end of the war.
About 1876, as photographs of many sizes and from many people continued to arrive, the collection was removed from the Surgical Section and named the Contributed Photographs. Otis no longer had the photographs bound in albums. All of the photographs were renumbered from the beginning in red ink with the identifying "Cont. Photo." or the initials "C.P."6 Some of the best photographs were copied in the Museum and published as part of the Surgical Photograph series. Others were engraved for the History. Some photographs almost certainly taken by the Museum such as the one of Neil Wicks, probably by Bell,7 were added to the collection after the original negatives disappeared. Unfortunately, many photographs were given away by Daniel Lamb in 1915 including scores to Reed Bontecou's son.
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 317
November 19, 1894
Dr. Judson Daland
319 S. 18th St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
My Dear Doctor:
Can you give me any information concerning a centrifugal machine which is considered superior to the Litten centrifugal? Dr. Gray has just informed me that you are using a superior machine for urinary and blood analysis, and hence I write to ask you that you will be kind enough to enlighten me on this subject, especially as Surgeon General Sternberg is considering the matter of supplying certain of the larger military posts with the latest and most improved centrifugal apparatus.
Very sincerely yours,
Walter Reed
Major and Surgeon, U.S. Army,
Curator Army Medical Museum.
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 7132
November 18, 1903.
Mr. Henry Reens,
409 Fourth Ave.,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with your request of the 17th inst. 6 copies of printed circular of Museum photograph 177, recovery after fracture of the right ilium by a musket ball (from your own case), are herewith forwarded.
Very respectfully,
C.L. Heizmann
Col. Asst. Surgeon General, U.S.A.
In charge of Museum & Library Division
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Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 7132
N.Y. Nov. 17. 03.
Geo. A. Otis. Esq.
Asst. Surgeon +c.
Dear Sir.
Will you be kind enough to forward to me at your earliest convenience 6 copies of Circular Photograph 177, Recovery after fracture of the right Ilium by a musket ball, +c. and oblige.
Very Respectfully,
Henry Reens.
Late Private Co. I.
30th Regt. Mass. Vols.
409 4th Avenue
N.Y. City. c/o. Wilson
10/17 [1863]
Doctor
A box containing a stone jar redolent of alcohol was left by the Express, at my house yesterday.
It evidently is intended for the Cabinet and not the Cuisine, please send for it.
JKB [Joseph K Barnes, the Surgeon General of the Army]
Scovill Manufacturing Company
423 Broome Street.
Direct All Communications On Business To The Company.
New York Nov. 17th 1885
Copy.
Prof. A. Graham Bell
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Having seen in the N.Y. Tribune, a notice of a paper by Dr. Billings which was read by you at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Albany, on the 10th inst. on the Craniaphore used for taking composite photographs of skulls, +c we take the liberty to request that you will favor us with a copy of said paper for publication in The Photographic Times.
If you can thus oblige us, You will very much please
Yours Truly
R.S. Lewis.
Pr. E.R.
