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.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
St. Elizabeths hospital exhibit at National Building Museum
MARCH 25, 2017–JANUARY 15, 2018
http://nbm.org/exhibition/architecture-asylum-st-elizabeths-1852-2017/
I'm sure this will be a good exhibit and I plan to go see it. The hospital treated mentally-ill soldiers for much of the nineteenth century and there's a Civil War graveyard on the site.
St. Elizabeths had a historic collection, or museum, that was broken up in the 1990s with material going to the National Archives, the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Howard University, and at least two other places.
Here's the Medical Museum's description of its holdings:
SAINT ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL COLLECTION, 1861-1990
No finding aid,21 boxes, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
Material transferred when Saint Elizabeth's closed its museum due to being transferred from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Includes books, photographs,paintings, patient art, certificates, and pamphlets. Most photographs and paintings are portraits of staff. Objects also in Historical Collections.
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Additional material transferred to the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, Howard University,Department of the Interior Museum, Department of Health and Human Services' SAMSUS, Smithsonian Institution Castle, National Archives, and the Octagon House.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
March 21: Shelley McKellar speaks on artificial hearts at NLM
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Search for new Director - Florence Nightingale Museum in London
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Edward Jenner Museum in financial trouble
Jan 31, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Medical illustration blog at National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Military Medical Illustration: A Civil War Invention?
by JTH Connor and Michael Rhode
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Ukranian pharmacy museum profiled
Under the Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum
Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/
Monday, January 23, 2017
Michael Sappol on medical photography
Anatomy's Photography: Objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950
https://remedianetwork.net/2017/01/23/anatomys-photography-objectivity-showmanship-and-the-reinvention-of-the-anatomical-image-1860-1950/
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Alexandria's real Civil War hospital featured on NLM blog
Mercy Street's Mansion House Hospital
By Stephen J. Greenberg
January 19, 2017
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/01/19/mercy-streets-mansion-house-hospital/#like-10817
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Dittrick Museum featured
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Aug 20: Stanley Burns speaks at new Gettysburg PA medical museum
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
National Museum of Civil War Medicine criticized for logo
D.C. tourism guide rejects Frederick museum's ad containing Confederate Flag
July 22nd 2016
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/ad-doesnt-fly-in-dc
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
A somewhat skewed article on the Army Medical Museum
Four More Heads for the Indian Trophy Room
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/15/four-more-heads-indian-trophy-room-164780
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
June 22: NLM James H. Cassedy History of Medicine Lecture
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Wednesday, June 22, from 2 pm to 3pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. For this year's James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture, W. Bruce Fye, MD, MA, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, will speak on "The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic from 1864 to 1939: A Minnesota Family Practice Becomes an International 'Medical Mecca'"
This presentation will describe the origins and international impact of the Mayo Clinic through 1939, the year that William J. and Charles H. Mayo died. Multispecialty group practice was invented at Mayo at the beginning of the twentieth century. A visiting Canadian surgeon wrote in 1906, "Specialization and cooperation, with the best that can be had in each department, is here the motto. Cannot these principles be tried elsewhere?" Dr. Fye will address the Mayo Clinic's major (and underappreciated) role in the development of rigorous postgraduate (specialty) training. Unlike traditional academic medical centers that emphasize research, Mayo's main mission has always been patient care. This patient-centered activity has been undertaken in an environment enriched by extensive programs devoted to specialty training and clinical research. The clinic's long-standing culture of collaboration is cited as one of the key ingredients of its success.
This lecture will be live-streamed globally, and subsequently archived, by NIH VideoCasting:
All are welcome.
Sign language interpretation is provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate may contact Stephen Greenberg at 301-435-4995, e-mail greenbes@mail.nih.gov, or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).
In addition, we warmly welcome you to visit our blog, "Circulating Now," where you can learn more about the collections and related programs of the History of Medicine Division of the NLM:
http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/
Here also you can read interviews with previous lecturers:
http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/tag/lecture/
Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NLM Visitors and Security website:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html
Sponsored by:
NLM's History of Medicine Division
Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, Chief
Event contact:
Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
Coordinator of Public Services
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine, NIH
301-827-4577
Friday, June 10, 2016
Job opening at NMHM
There is a rare opening at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) for someone with the right combination of skills (osteology, anatomy, museum collections management.) Application period closes June 22.