Letter of the Day: March 22

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 08224

War Department,
Office of the Surgeon General,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington

March 22, 1905.

To the Surgeon General, U.S. Army

Sir:

I have the honor to report that Mr. C. J. Myers, clerk, Class IV, of the Museum and Library Division, died at 9:15 A.M. this day.

Very respectfully,
C. L. Heizmann Col. Asst. Surgeon General, U.S.Army
In charge of Museum and Library Division

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Medical museum is on the move
By Suzanne Kubota
Senior Internet Editor
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 21, 2011

Tim Clarke, Deputy Director of Communications, National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Medical Museum to Close Exhibits on April 3, 2011

MEDICAL MUSEUM TO CLOSE EXHIBITS ON APRIL 3, 2011
TO PREPARE FOR MOVE TO SILVER SPRING, MD

February 28, 2011, Washington, D.C.: As part of the relocation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine from its present location to its new home in Silver Spring, Maryland, exhibits at the present location will phase out over the coming weeks. The last day that the public may visit any exhibits at the Museum in its present location will be on Sunday, April 3, 2011. All of the Museum’s exhibits are expected to remain available to visitors through April 3, 2011.

The Museum is open to the public daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including weekends and holidays), on the campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Admission and parking are free. Adults must present government-issued photo identification to gain entry to the Walter Reed campus, and vehicles are subject to search. Learn more about planning a visit to the Museum on the campus of Walter Reed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/planning/index.html.

NMHM will complete its relocation to the Forest Glen Annex during the summer of 2011 and looks forward to welcoming the public at its new location in the fall. Stay tuned to the Museum’s website, Facebook page and e-newsletter for details.

During this transition period, while the Museum is closed to the public at its present location on the Walter Reed campus, Museum public programs staff will be working to continue their activities at other locations in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for details.

Questions should be directed to Tim Clarke, NMHM Deputy Director for Communications, (202) 782-2672.

About the National Museum of Health and Medicine

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862, inspires interest in and promotes the understanding of medicine—past, present, and future—with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. As a National Historic Landmark recognized for its ongoing value to the health of the military and to the nation, the Museum identifies, collects, and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs, and scientific, historical, and medical research. The Museum is presently located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum or call (202) 782-2200 for more information.

 

Letter of the Day: March 21

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 08225

Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
H.J. Patterson, Director

College Park, Prince Geo. Co., Md.
Mar. 21, 1905

Dr. Carroll
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir-

I take the liberty of asking you a question which concerns or has bearing on some work we have been doing at this station during the past winter on certain conditions affecting the milk, which are supposed to come from a diseased condition of the udder. What I would like to know is whether fibrin is usually associated with pus due to inflammatory conditions.

Very truly yours,
C.F Doane, Dairyman.

Letter of the Day: March 20

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 04453

War Department,
Surgeon General's Office,
U.S. Army Medical Museum and Library,
Corner 7th and B Streets SW.,
Washington

March 20, 1900

Colonel A. M. Miller
Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
Office of Washington Aqueduct.

Dear Sir:

I enclosed tabulated list of the results obtained with the gas producing organisms isolated from Congressional Spring water, collected February 7, 1900.

The average count was 78 per cc.

Of 6 fermentation tube inoculated with 2 cc of the water, 1 gave 68% of gas and 5 were negative.

Of 6 tubes charged with 4 cc of water, 2 gave 20% of gas and 4 were negative.

Nos. 6 and 7 of the table are almost typical colon bacilli; they differ from it only in their slow fermentation of lactose.

Very truly yours,
James Carroll
Acting Asst. Surgeon,
U.S. Army.

Medical Museum to Close Exhibits on April 3, 2011

MEDICAL MUSEUM TO CLOSE EXHIBITS ON APRIL 3, 2011
TO PREPARE FOR MOVE TO SILVER SPRING, MD

February 28, 2011, Washington, D.C.: As part of the relocation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine from its present location to its new home in Silver Spring, Maryland, exhibits at the present location will phase out over the coming weeks. The last day that the public may visit any exhibits at the Museum in its present location will be on Sunday, April 3, 2011. All of the Museum’s exhibits are expected to remain available to visitors through April 3, 2011.

The Museum is open to the public daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including weekends and holidays), on the campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Admission and parking are free. Adults must present government-issued photo identification to gain entry to the Walter Reed campus, and vehicles are subject to search. Learn more about planning a visit to the Museum on the campus of Walter Reed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/planning/index.html.

NMHM will complete its relocation to the Forest Glen Annex during the summer of 2011 and looks forward to welcoming the public at its new location in the fall. Stay tuned to the Museum’s website, Facebook page and e-newsletter for details.

During this transition period, while the Museum is closed to the public at its present location on the Walter Reed campus, Museum public programs staff will be working to continue their activities at other locations in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for details.

Questions should be directed to Tim Clarke, NMHM Deputy Director for Communications, (202) 782-2672.

About the National Museum of Health and Medicine

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862, inspires interest in and promotes the understanding of medicine—past, present, and future—with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. As a National Historic Landmark recognized for its ongoing value to the health of the military and to the nation, the Museum identifies, collects, and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs, and scientific, historical, and medical research. The Museum is presently located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum or call (202) 782-2200 for more information.

 

Letter of the Day: March 19

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 07378

War Department,
Office of the Surgeon General,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington

March 19, 1904.

1st Lieut. Thos. Devereaux
Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A.
U.S. Army Transport "Sumner"
Pier 12, East River
New York, N.Y.

Dear Doctor:

I wish to thank you for the tape worm you so kindly sent me, which arrived yesterday. It has been very useful for class demonstration.

Sincerely yours,
James Carroll
1st Lieut. Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A.
Curator, Army Medical Museum.

DC government to get, and demolish, Walter Reed Hospital

D.C. sees big development potential with more land at Walter Reed
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03/18/11
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Exhibit Design Concept for Downtown Silver Spring

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Letter of the Day: March 18

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 08215

War Department,
Office of the Surgeon General,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington

March 18, 1905.

To the Surgeon General,
U.S. Army

Sir: I have the honor to request the authority to purchase for deposit in the Army Medical Museum:

A series of twelve wax preparations showing stages of diphtheria in children, at a cost of $180.00.

to be paid for from the Museum appropriation.

Very respectfully,
C. L. Heizmann
Col. Asst. Surgeon General, U.S.A.
In charge of Museum and Library Division

Medical Museum to Close Exhibits on April 3, 2011

MEDICAL MUSEUM TO CLOSE EXHIBITS ON APRIL 3, 2011
TO PREPARE FOR MOVE TO SILVER SPRING, MD

February 28, 2011, Washington, D.C.: As part of the relocation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine from its present location to its new home in Silver Spring, Maryland, exhibits at the present location will phase out over the coming weeks. The last day that the public may visit any exhibits at the Museum in its present location will be on Sunday, April 3, 2011. All of the Museum’s exhibits are expected to remain available to visitors through April 3, 2011.

The Museum is open to the public daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including weekends and holidays), on the campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Admission and parking are free. Adults must present government-issued photo identification to gain entry to the Walter Reed campus, and vehicles are subject to search. Learn more about planning a visit to the Museum on the campus of Walter Reed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/planning/index.html.

NMHM will complete its relocation to the Forest Glen Annex during the summer of 2011 and looks forward to welcoming the public at its new location in the fall. Stay tuned to the Museum’s website, Facebook page and e-newsletter for details.

During this transition period, while the Museum is closed to the public at its present location on the Walter Reed campus, Museum public programs staff will be working to continue their activities at other locations in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for details.

Questions should be directed to Tim Clarke, NMHM Deputy Director for Communications, (202) 782-2672.

About the National Museum of Health and Medicine

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862, inspires interest in and promotes the understanding of medicine—past, present, and future—with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. As a National Historic Landmark recognized for its ongoing value to the health of the military and to the nation, the Museum identifies, collects, and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs, and scientific, historical, and medical research. The Museum is presently located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum or call (202) 782-2200 for more information.

 

Letter of the Day: March 17

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 01334

March 17, 1896

Messrs Schering & Glatz,
55 Maiden Lane,

Gentlemen:

Your letter of the 16th instant has been received. We have been using formalin at this Museum, and in the shape referred to in your letter, for more than two years, as a preservative and as a hardening agent for the tissues, and have obtained admirable results from the same, and expect to continue its use. Upon inquiry I find that we have a sufficient quantity on hand to last for several months. When next we desire a supply you will receive an invitation to bid.

The Commissioner of Education, Interior Department, this city, can most probably furnish you with a list of Museums and educational institutions in the United States from which you would select such as you consider desirable.

Very respectfully,

Walter Reed,
Surgeon, U.S. Army,
Curator.

Letter of the Day: March 16

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 01334

C. Gottlob Kolb
Carl F. Stiefel

Schering & Glatz,
Importers of Drugs & Chemicals
No. 55 Maiden Lane.

New York, March 16, 1896



Major Walter Reed, Surgeon U.S. Army,
Curator Army Medical Museum, Washington, D.C.

Dear Doctor:-

Being desirous to bring into more general use Formalin as a preserving agent of anatomical and historical specimens, etc. we intend to submit offers, similar to the enclosed to Museums of Natural History, etc.-

We would be under great obligations to you if you could furnich [sic] us with the addresses of some museums and institutions in the United States, who likely have use for the article.

Any expense connected therewith will be cheerfully refunded by

Yours very truly,
Schering & Glatz

Enclosure:
Stamped envelope

Museum's April 3rd closure noted in local media

Last Day to Visit the NMHM at Walter Reed is April 3

  by William F. Zeman on Mar. 10, 2011

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/03/10/last-day-to-visit-nmhm-is-april-3/

Medical Museum to Be Creepy Elsewhere

By CARISSA DIMARGO

 Mar 15, 2011

http://www.nbcwashington.com/the-scene/events/Medical-Museum-to-be-Creepy-Elsewhere-118005664.html

Letter of the Day: March 13

De Camp General Hospital, U.S.A.,

Davids’ Island, New York Harbor,

Mar. 13^th 1866

 

My dear Doctor,

 

I have sent by Adams Express Co. to the address of the Surgeon General, a box containing some photographs of surgical cases, and the histories there of rather imperfectly obtained by me from personal interviews with the patients and statements given by others. The box also contained a humerus and bullet relative to one of the cases. I likewise sent three additional photographic views of this Hospital which will complete the series taken, five of which have been previously forwarded by me to the Army Medical Museum.

 

Will you oblige me by forwarding a copy of Circular No 6 to the following address: Dr. S.F. Morris care of R.L. Morris, M.D., Pelham, P.O. Westchester Co., N. York.

 

Yours very truly

 

Warren Webster

 

Dr. Otis, +c. +c.

Letter of the Day: March 15

Fort Wingate N.M.

March 15^th 1870

 

Surgeon General U.S.A.

 

Gen.

 

I have the honor to enclose for Army Medical Museum Ten Photographs of Navajo Indians and one reduced copy of a sketch of one of the Mogin villages.

 

They are all very poorly taken and printed, but the best that can be got here, and may be of some interest as illustrating the Navajo dress, features +c.

 

On Feb. 11^th I forwarded a small collection of crania and weapons to the Museum and sent Catalogues with Receipt of A.A.Q.M. for packages by mail on same date.

 

Very respectfully

Your Obedient Servant

R.S. Vickery

Asst. Surg. U.S.A.

Medical Museum to Close Exhibits on April 3, 2011

MEDICAL MUSEUM TO CLOSE EXHIBITS ON APRIL 3, 2011
TO PREPARE FOR MOVE TO SILVER SPRING, MD

February 28, 2011, Washington, D.C.: As part of the relocation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine from its present location to its new home in Silver Spring, Maryland, exhibits at the present location will phase out over the coming weeks. The last day that the public may visit any exhibits at the Museum in its present location will be on Sunday, April 3, 2011. All of the Museum’s exhibits are expected to remain available to visitors through April 3, 2011.

The Museum is open to the public daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including weekends and holidays), on the campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Admission and parking are free. Adults must present government-issued photo identification to gain entry to the Walter Reed campus, and vehicles are subject to search. Learn more about planning a visit to the Museum on the campus of Walter Reed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/planning/index.html.

NMHM will complete its relocation to the Forest Glen Annex during the summer of 2011 and looks forward to welcoming the public at its new location in the fall. Stay tuned to the Museum’s website, Facebook page and e-newsletter for details.

During this transition period, while the Museum is closed to the public at its present location on the Walter Reed campus, Museum public programs staff will be working to continue their activities at other locations in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for details.

Questions should be directed to Tim Clarke, NMHM Deputy Director for Communications, (202) 782-2672.

About the National Museum of Health and Medicine

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862, inspires interest in and promotes the understanding of medicine—past, present, and future—with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. As a National Historic Landmark recognized for its ongoing value to the health of the military and to the nation, the Museum identifies, collects, and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs, and scientific, historical, and medical research. The Museum is presently located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum or call (202) 782-2200 for more information.

 

Letter of the Day: March 14

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 07377

War Department,
Office of the Surgeon General,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington

March 14, 1904

Dr. Roger P. Ames,
Contract Surgeon, U.S.A,
Fort McIntosh, Texas

Dear Dr. Ames:

The box containing mosquito larvae arrived this morning in good condition and most of the animals are alive. Although the water was quite cold and they were benumbed, they are now fairly active. They are just in time and I thank you very much for sending them. With kind regards,

Yours very truly,
James Carroll
1st Lieut. Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A.
Curator, Army Medical Museum

Medical Museum to Close Exhibits on April 3, 2011

MEDICAL MUSEUM TO CLOSE EXHIBITS ON APRIL 3, 2011
TO PREPARE FOR MOVE TO SILVER SPRING, MD

February 28, 2011, Washington, D.C.: As part of the relocation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine from its present location to its new home in Silver Spring, Maryland, exhibits at the present location will phase out over the coming weeks. The last day that the public may visit any exhibits at the Museum in its present location will be on Sunday, April 3, 2011. All of the Museum’s exhibits are expected to remain available to visitors through April 3, 2011.

The Museum is open to the public daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including weekends and holidays), on the campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Admission and parking are free. Adults must present government-issued photo identification to gain entry to the Walter Reed campus, and vehicles are subject to search. Learn more about planning a visit to the Museum on the campus of Walter Reed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/planning/index.html.

NMHM will complete its relocation to the Forest Glen Annex during the summer of 2011 and looks forward to welcoming the public at its new location in the fall. Stay tuned to the Museum’s website, Facebook page and e-newsletter for details.

During this transition period, while the Museum is closed to the public at its present location on the Walter Reed campus, Museum public programs staff will be working to continue their activities at other locations in the Silver Spring, Md., area. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for details.

Questions should be directed to Tim Clarke, NMHM Deputy Director for Communications, (202) 782-2672.

About the National Museum of Health and Medicine

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862, inspires interest in and promotes the understanding of medicine—past, present, and future—with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. As a National Historic Landmark recognized for its ongoing value to the health of the military and to the nation, the Museum identifies, collects, and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs, and scientific, historical, and medical research. The Museum is presently located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum or call (202) 782-2200 for more information.

 

Letter of the Day: March 12

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 04449

War Department,
Surgeon General's Office,
U.S. Army Medical Museum and Library,
Corner 7th and B Streets SW.,
Washington

March 12, 1900

Mrs. Benjamin Cushing
Percival Ave.
Dorchester, Mass.

Dear Madam:

I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt, through the kindness of Dr. Robert T. Edes, of a pair of forceps and a Laennec stethoscope, used by your husband, the late Dr. Benjamin Cushing, and to thank you for these interesting contributions to the collections of instruments in this Museum. They have been deposited as Nos. 2559 and 2560, series of instruments.

Very respectfully,
JC Merrill
Major & Surgeon,
U.S. Army