Hello! Our names are Megan and Michelle. We are interns from
Image from Sadler TW. 2006. Langman's Medical Embryology, 10th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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.
Hello! Our names are Megan and Michelle. We are interns from
Image from Sadler TW. 2006. Langman's Medical Embryology, 10th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 1171
War Department,
Surgeon General’s Office,
Washington, Nov. 9, 1895.
My dear Doctor:-
I am not aware that anything has been done with reference to the souring of hams, to which you refer. It is an interesting subject of investigation and I shall be glad to know what results you arrive at. If you could send one of the hams by express to me I would have some investigations made in the laboratory at the Army Medical Museum in this city.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Geo. M. Sternberg.
Dr. W.T. White,
Kansas City Medical College,
Kansas City, Missouri.
Reeve 43604 | Army Medical School, Walter Reed Hospital, Officer of the Day. [Illustration. Cartoon.] |
This cartoon is almost incomprehensible to us now, so I’ll do a quick read of what I think it means. The Walter Reed medical center baby is trying to reach a toy labeled for the Army Medical School Officer of the Day – implying I think that the hospital base wanted administrative control over the medical school, which had moved onto the campus in 1907. The school eventually became the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and will be our neighbor when we move up to Forest Glen, Md next year.
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 1171
Kansas City Medical College
Kansas City, MO., Nov 5” 1895
Dr Geo M Sternberg
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Your communication at hand I would have been willing to acted as partner in your laboratory but since thee is no opening of any kind, I can only thank you and say I am sorry.
I am now trying to investigate the cause of “hog hams souring” Swift + Co one of our packers looses (sic) about $8000\00 per annum and I am quite sure it is due to bacterial origin. I have worked two weeks without making much headway and have six weeks left until I make a report. If you will kindly express me any literature on the subject I will take excellent care thereof, and return at your pleasure + my expense. Hoping you can help me I am yours very truly
WT White
17 + Bellview
K.C. Mo
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