US Navy's BUMED's Office of Medical History interruption in service

Due to a flood over the weekend, th4e US Navy's BUMED's Office of Medical History will have an interruption in archival services. 95% of the collection was completely unaffected, but due to wet flooring and drywall, all of it will have to be packed up and placed in storage for at least a month. A set of 19th century hospital plans and maps did get wet, but are being freeze-dried.

For the next four weeks, limited reference services will be available. Telephone service has been interrupted, and voice mail messages should not be left.

Contacts are Archivist Michael Rhode at michael.rhode@med.navy.mil
or Historian Andre Sobocinski at andre.sobocinski@med.navy.mil

Renowned Vascular Surgeon to Complete Donating His Vietnam War Medical Collection to NMHM

Friday, Aug 09, 2013  Fort Detrick Standard

 Renowned Vascular Surgeon to Complete Donating His Vietnam War Medical Collection to NMHM

 by Melissa Brachfeld, National Museum of Health and Medicine

http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20130809/NEWS03/130809806/renowned-vascular-surgeon-to-complete-donating-his-vietnam-war

 

Additional material being donated by Norman Rich who sent similar material 40 years ago.

800th item uploading to Medical Heritage Library by BUMED

Interview with former POW, LT Francis Barker, US Army survivor of the Bataan Death March and the Oryoku Maru (October 21, 2003)

https://archive.org/details/BARKERFrancisB


Michael Rhode
Archivist / Curator
US Navy BUMED Office of Medical History
703-681-2539
michael.rhode@med.navy.mil

mailing address:
7700 Arlington Blvd
Falls Church, VA 22042

physical address:
BUMED Detachment, Falls Church.
Four Skyline Place, Suite 602,
5113 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA

  

 

Museum Bridges Gap between Medicine of the Past and Medicine of the Future

by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John K. Hamilton NSAB Public Affairs staff writer

http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20130801/NEWS11/130809982/museum-bridges-gap-between-medicine-of-the-past-and-medicine-of-the

Thursday, Aug 01, 2013  The Journal

600th item uploaded to Medical Heritage Library by Navy Office of Medical History

https://archive.org/details/NavyMedicalNewsletter19621221

United States Navy Medical News Letter Vol. 40 No. 12, 21 December 1962

Circulating Now blog, from the NLM's History of Medicine Division

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of
Medicine, I am pleased to invite you to the launch of our new blog,
Circulating Now, which is intended to encourage greater exploration and
discovery of one of the world's largest and most treasured history of
medicine collections.

Circulating Now will bring the NLM's diverse historical collections to
life in new and exciting ways for researchers, educators, students, and
anyone else who is interested in the history of medicine. Whether you are
familiar with NLM's historical collections, or you are discovering them
for the first time, Circulating Now will be an exciting and engaging
resource to bookmark, share, and discuss with other readers.

Kicking off Circulating Now will be a series of posts that draws on the
NLM's historical collections and associated others to reenact in a unique
way a tumultuous event in medical and American history which occurred 132
years ago this summer: the assassination of, and attempts to save, our
nation's twentieth President, James A. Garfield.

Come visit Circulating Now at:

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
Coordinator of Public Services
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, MD

301-435-4995
greenbes@mail.nih.gov<mailto:greenbes@mail.nih.gov>

 

DOD Live at National Museum of Health and Medicine

National Museum of Health and Medicine | DoDLive It's not a freak show, it's all at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Read More. Posted in Armed With Science Saturday, DoD News | Tagged 25 million ... www.dodlive.mil/.../national-museum-of-health-and-medicine/

7 medical museums

7 unusual medical museums -

in addition to the NMHM, there's a couple on here I didn't know about.

Medical trade literature

One of the strengths of the NMHM's archives is it's trade literature / advertising material in the GMPI collection. Here's Steve Heller's Daily Heller blog pointing out the designer of Upjohn's Scope magazine
5.31.13 / Will Burtin's Beauty
The May-June 1955 issue of Print magazine, co-edited by Leo Lionni, was pretty special. In addition to Lioinni's bi-monthly injection of art and art history into the editorial mix of the magazine, an insert written and designed by Will Burtin titled "A Program in Print: Upjohn and Design" is seamlessly folded into the magazine. http://www.printmag.com/designer-profiles/will-burtin/

Stanley Burns speaks Friday at Seminar at the MET

http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/workshops-and-courses/gallery-seminars/study-day-american-civil-war

Eben Smith, Civil War amputee

Eben Smith's case is well-documented because he's one of the rare survivors of an amputation at the hip. More images can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99129398@N00&q=eben

"Indomitable Will" saved local Civil War amputee Fenceviewer Photo Courtesy Surgeon Genera;'s Office, Army Medical Museum FRANKLIN — Bayview Cemetery is the final resting place of a Civil War soldier who survived ...

Slate finds some posters from the Medical Museum

As far as I can tell, these were never put into production

Four WWII Posters That Taught Soldiers How To Identify Chemical ... Slate Magazine The advent of chemical warfare during WWI was traumatic, and the stories from the front ... Thanks to Eric Boyle of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

With all due respect to my friend, Eric, back when I was the archivist of the Museum, I put these and other pictures of chemical warfare up on Flickr in 2006 at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99129398@N00&q=mustard 
 
Since I left in the fall of 2011, they haven't added any images to the almost 4,000 I loaded here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/ 
 
Similar World War II posters can be seen at the National Library of Medicine's Images in the History of Medicine website.

CNN's World's 10 weirdest medical museums

World's 10 weirdest medical museums CNN International In honor of International Museum Day on May 18, here are the world's weirdest medical museums. Bart's Pathology Museum, England A university collection ...

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Body Worlds plastination exhibit opens in NYC

Comfortable Out of Their Own Skin

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

New York Times May 10 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/arts/design/body-worlds-pulse-at-discovery-times-square.html

Three rare photographs of the US Navy Museum of Hygiene

All three images are bound in a copy of "Catalogue of The Exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy." Compiled by Philip S. Wales, Medical Director, U.S.N. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893 now held in BUMED's Office of Medical History.

The Museum. Present Home. 1707 New York Avenue, N.W. 1887-1893.
13-0103-003
The Museum. 2nd Home. S.E. Corner 18th & G Sts, NW. 1882-1887. 13-0103-002 The Museum. Birth-place. 18th + K Sts, N.W. 1879-1882. 13-0103-001

Posters at the National Library of Medicine

'Could you poison your child?': images from a century of medical propaganda; Health, history, and design collide at the National Library of Medicine

 By Amar Toor

The Verge April 12, 2013

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/12/4214262/national-library-of-medicine-online-image-archive-health-psa-posters

The first image, about a sailor blinded at Pearl Harbor, is by the noted cartoonist Alex Raymond.

Medical museum in Bangkok

Bangkok's macabre museum of death New Zealand Herald By Emily Gibson Emily Gibson discovers the gruesome displays on offer at Bangkok's Siriraj Medical Museum - the Museum of Death.

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Contamination under new medical museum building

Army finds contaminants, not source, at Forest Glen Annex

Study identifies high levels of chloroform, arsenic

by Sylvia Carignan
http://www.gazette.net/article/20130503/NEWS/130509415/1022/army-finds-contaminants-not-source-at-forest-glen-annex&template=gazette

Luckey Hospital Museum in Indiana

Luckey charm KPCnews.com Today, he volunteers at the museum. WOLF LAKE — Since 2003, the former Luckey Hospital has been a medical museum, with apartments currently on the second ...

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New medical museums article out

Stephen C. Kenny. "The Development of Medical Museums in the Antebellum American South: Slave Bodies in Networks of Anatomical Exchange." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87.1 (2013): 32-62.