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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.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Brain awareness week at NMHM
Medical museum and library staff quoted on 10-year Iraq war
Medical care, front-line tactics aid recovery rates
By Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service
March 16, 2013
The article quotes Alan Hawk of the medical museum and Ken Koyle of NLM.
Another version is here.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
New issue of The Grog, A Journal of Navy Medical History and Culture
It is with great pleasure that we present to you the latest edition of The Grog, A Journal of Navy Medical History and Culture. In this issue, we offer our readers an original assortment of stories, essays, trivia and book reviews covering the topics of: the life and lessons of the heroic World War I nurse Edith Cavell; a look back at Hennesey, the only Navy Medicine-themed TV sitcom in history; the Navy's 115-year history of Global Health Engagement; Navy's Medicine and the Knickerbocker Theater Disaster; an illustrated look at service with the FMF; oral history interviews and their application to the arts; notes from the Navy Medical Archives; and a short review of Larry Berman's book, "Zumwalt." As always we hope you enjoy this tour on the high seas of Navy Medicine's past.
Issue 36, 2013
http://issuu.com/thegrogration/docs/the_grog_issue_36__2013
Very Respectfully,
André
André B. Sobocinski
Historian/Publications Manager
Office of Medical History
Communications Directorate (M09B7C)
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)
Monday, March 11, 2013
Another staff departure at NMHM
Saturday, March 9, 2013
National Library of Medicine featured in Washington Post
By Peggy McEwan,
Washington Post March 6 2013
- there's a picture of my friend Paul Theerman in the Incunabula room too.
National Museum of Health and Medicine - a parent's review
The National Museum of Health and Medicine: Fascinating, but not ... Every once in a while, our adventures around the DC-Metro don't go so well. An exhibit disappoints, a show can't hold the preschooler attention span, ... kidfriendlydc.com/.../the-national-museum-of-health-and-med... |
Friday, March 8, 2013
Navy Medicine's 1993 John Wilkes Booth issue online now
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Here's a cute article about a mini-medical museum
Hospital receives book with 5000 19th century remedies Idaho State Journal SODA SPRINGS — The Mini-Medical Museum at Caribou Memorial Hospital received a book from a descendent of Dr. William H. Anderson, who was a registered ... |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
PR: Wellcome Library launches Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics
genetics, the Wellcome Library's new digital resource which contains over
a million pages of books and archives relating to the history of genetics.
A further half million pages will be added over the coming weeks from the
holdings of the Wellcome Library and our partner institutions at Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Library, King's College London, University
College London, Glasgow University Archives and the Churchill Archives
Centre.
Codebreakers contains twenty archives including the papers of Francis
Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, as well as
archives of the Eugenics Society, made available by kind permission of the
Council of the Galton Institute, the papers of J B S Haldane, and the
collections of Guido Pontecorvo and his students Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
and James Renwick at Glasgow University.
Codebreakers also contains over a thousand digitised books covering the
science, history and social and cultural aspects of genetics and related
disciplines, mostly from the 20th century.
You can find out more about Codebreakers and the collections we have
digitised on our website http://wellcomelibrary.org
Phoebe Harkins
Communications Co-ordinator
Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Trust
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7611 8628
Mob:+44 (0) 7739 194907
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7611 8369
The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England, no. 210183. Its
sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in
England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BE, UK.
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/
http://wellcomelibrary.org
Interesting article on medieval dissection
Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science
Doctors in medieval Europe weren't as idle as it may seem, as a new analysis of the oldest-known preserved human dissection in Europe reveals
By Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grotesque-mummy-head-reveals
March 12: NLM History of Medicine Lecture
Thursday, February 28, 2013
"Do you know where the National Museum of Health and Medicine is located?"
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine However, you'd have a hard time answering the following question, "Excuse me, do you know where the National Museum of Health and Medicine is located? www.americanguesthouse.com/.../the-national-museum-of-hea... |
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
New medical museum opens in Kansas
New medical museum opens Shawnee Dispatch The museum tells that story through exhibits focusing on different countries, Native Americans, diseases, medicines, medical specialties and other areas of ... |
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Mutter museum article
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Bits on medical museums on 2 continents
Why 'Lincoln' should win an Oscar for Best Picture...
Upcoming lecture on Medical Museum in NY
Monday, February 18, 2013
American Registry of Pathology retains museum staff contract
Monday, February 11, 2013
Index to "Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens" online now
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
African-American Civil War Surgeons in the NLM Collections lecture
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Newspaper profile of the Mutter Museum
See Albert Einstein's brain and other matters of medical history ... Allentown Morning Call The nation's finest and oldest medical museum — celebrating its 150th anniversary March 4 — bills itself as "disturbingly informative" and that is ... |
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Medical Museum in Lincoln movie
Staff departures, catching up again
Apparently the exhibit designer position left by Navjeet Singh has been filled.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Medical illustration and history of medicine at Belskie Museum
It appears as though they may hold his papers which might make an interesting research project. Belskie worked on a Birth Atlas in 1940. The museum publishes a small booklet about him that's available at the information desk.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
New Zealand medical museum opens
Medical 'house of horrors' for Northland New Zealand Herald By Hannah Norton Dr John Swinney, left, and Kiwi North director Stewart Bowden seated in a couple of wheelchairs that feature in the new medical museum. |
The Post interviews Brad Meltzer
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Another Brad Meltzer interview on mysterious medical museums
Kiel Phegley,
Comic Book Resources January 15 2013
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43191
Medical museum spurs thriller idea
Brad Meltzer's new thriller gets Oval Office insight
By Kurt Anthony Krug
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/14/entertainment-us-books-bradmeltzer-idUSBRE90D15P20130114
"Meltzer explained that the idea for the book came during a visit to the little-known U.S. Army-run National Museum of Health and Medicine near Washington."
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Who's buried in John Wilkes Booth's grave?
A deathbed claim Enid News & Eagle Elements of the 16th New York Cavalry tracked Booth and an accomplice to a .... and since have been preserved at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. |
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Staff departures, catching up
Another departure is imminent, I'm told.
History of drugs - article of interest
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Ancient pills found in shipwreck offer rare insight into early ... KGWN The results offer a peek into the complexity and sophistication of ancient ... |
NLM History of Medicine Lecture
Jan 16: Comic book & thriller writer Brad Meltzer at Politics & Prose
Why should you care? On his website, Meltzer writes:
In this case, it began with a government employee who told me that I needed to come to a secret museum that almost no one knew about. Naturally, I was suspicious, so I asked him what they had at this so-called museum. Then he told me: We have pieces of Abraham Lincoln's skull, the bullet that killed him, and even the bones of John Wilkes Booth, if you want to see them.
Brad Meltzer - The Fifth Assassin
Friday, December 28, 2012
Staff departures at NMHM
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Einstein's brain samples
Einstein's brain: Even on the surface, extraordinary - latimes.com Los Angeles Times One hundred sixty of the slides, made from 240 "blocks" of Einstein's brain, are at Princeton's University Medical Center, and an additional 560 slides are housed at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, until recently on the grounds of Walter ... |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Voice of America visits medical museum
Visit to a Medical Museum; Plastic Surgeon Makes Healing Trips to ... Voice of America The museum also has anatomical collections of bones and preserved human organs. The National Museum of Health and Medicine opened as the Army Medical Museum ... |
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Einstein's brain app
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
VOA on National Museum of Health and Medicine
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US Museum Showcases National Medical Collection Voice of America The National Museum of Health and Medicine originally opened as the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War. It's celebrating its 150th anniversary with a ... |
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Google Alert - "National Museum of Health and Medicine"
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine: America's hidden ... The National Museum of Health and Medicine. It's not large like Mount Rushmore , iconic like the Statue of Liberty, or symbolic like The White House. It's small ... www.timetravelturtle.com/.../national-museum-health-medicin... | ||
DCMilitary.com: NMHM Holds 25th Annual Forensic Anthropology ... bySubmitted by: National Museum of Health and Medicine. Franklin Damann, Anatomical Collections Curator at the National Museum of Health and Medicine ... www.dcmilitaryed.com/.../nmhm-holds-25th-annual-forensic-... |
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Museum-related publication is notable.
AFIP swan song book picked as notable
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The tragic death of President James Garfield
The tragic death of President James Garfield
CBS News' Sunday Morning July 1 2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7413480n
In 1881 James A. Garfield became the second U.S. President to be assassinated. As Mo Rocca learns, however, his death could have been avoided.
[Book author Candace Millard did research in the Museum, and former Museum curator Jeff Reznick appears]
Monday, July 2, 2012
Google Alert - "National Museum of Health and Medicine"
Artifact History: NĂ©laton probe « BoothieBarn The collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) contains several objects relating to Presidential health and care. In regards to the ... boothiebarn.wordpress.com/.../artifact-history-nelaton-probe/ |
Friday, June 22, 2012
What Would Sickles Do?
The NMHM's public affairs office has moved the Museum's website and taken down a lot of material the Guide to the Collections (which listed over 500 large groupings of material for researchers), any articles written by staff, all the transcripts of the AFIP Oral histories, the Archives annual reports and probably more.
They did take the time to go through the Archives annual reports, cull all the users of the Archives over 20 years, and put it in one big list. They converted all the finding aids to pdfs, which probably makes them less visible to search engines. The also broke all the links in the History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium search engine hosted by the National Library of Medicine.
You can still find the Guide to the Collections at the Internet Archive or buy a print copy at cost from Lulu. Fortunately Internet Archive had crawled the site and you can find all the useful missing material here. However, search engines will no longer pull this up for you apparently, based on a quick test for the Foreword to Photographic Atlas of Civil War Injuries (which you can still read here).
*Actually we didn't because he was a bit of a loon - see Gettysburg, battle of or, Key, Philip Barton, murder of.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Bruce Guthrie's NMHM opening pics
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Walt Whitman in the Civil War article online
Remains of War : Walt Whitman, Civil War Soldiers, and the Legacy of Medical Collections
Lenore Barbian, Paul S. Sledzik, Jeffrey S. Reznick
http://lcoastpress.metapress.com/content/2hp4847807u83752/fulltext.pdf
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Fredericksburg medical museum featured in paper
Bleeding-Edge Technologies
Dr. Hugh Mercer used only the best leeches, bone saws and lancets
By Holly J. Morris on December 01, 2011Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Nov 10: Cancer Education Film at the National Academy of Sciences
This is presented by friends of mine who really know their stuff and should be excellent. I'm planning on seeing it.
The Reward of Courage
Thursday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100
Join us for a screening of The Reward of Courage , the first public education film about cancer. Released 90 years ago this fall, the film introduced many ideas about cancer that are familiar today. A copy of this hitherto lost silent film was recently discovered, and in excellent
condition. A specially commissioned musical score, performed live by the
Snark Ensemble, will accompany the film.
More Information & RSVP
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David Cantor PhD
Deputy Director
Office of History
National Institutes of Health
Bldg 45, Room 3AN38, MSC 6330
Bethesda, MD 20892-6330
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Phone: 301-402-8915 (Direct)
301-496-6610 (Office)
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Dr. William Gardner's death notice
Dr. Gardener was the ultimate supervisor of over 200 people, and a busy man. I personally got along well with him, and enjoyed it when we talked history together. My condolences to his family.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
New Navy history of medicine blog sneak peak
Tranquillity, Solace & Mercy
The history of US Navy medicine