'Fake' Roswell alien autopsy video was REAL and CIA scientist saw
proof at Pentagon briefing ...
The Sun
... reveals alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at
Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in
Washington DC ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Indiana Medical History Museum profiled
Former mental hospital houses medical museum https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/former-mental-hospital-houses-medical-museum/article_37504499-04f9-5a9d-bde9-b14b5560fdf8.html
INDIANAPOLIS — In the shadows of old wooden bookcases sit jars filled with embalming fluid preserving decades-old brains that have signs of ...
Sunday, March 24, 2019
NMHM and Dittrick curators on medical equipment
Left to their own devices
A look at the evolution of five now-essential medical tools.
Friday, February 22, 2019
McGill honors Maude Abbott with a plaque
After honouring 99 men, McGill medical building recognizes pioneer Maude Abbott
Refused entry to McGill medical school because she was a woman, Abbott went on to work for the university
NMHM sued for access to collection
Innocence Project sues museum for access to archives on 'tragically flawed' bite-mark evidence
ABA Journal February 21, 2019,
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/innocence-project-files-first-amendment-suit-over-denied-access-to-museums-bite-mark-archivesThe Innocence Project has sued the federal government's National Museum of Health and Medicine for denying it access to archival information on the history of bite-mark analysis.....
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Washington Post's Express paper reviews the National Museum of Health and Medicine
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a fascinating nightmare
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
McGill's Medical Museum opens to public
| McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum opens its collection to the public The "Holmes heart" has a special place among the 2,000 specimens in the collection of McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, which opened its ... |
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Excellent article on WW1 Chemical Corps experiments in DC
The Chemists' War
One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans' gas attacks.
By Theo Emery
Nov. 10, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/science/chemical-weapons-world-war-1-armistice.html
Friday, November 2, 2018
Civil War specimens scanned from NMHM
Lab 3-D scans human skeletal remains dating back to the American Civil War
November 1, 2018 by Brian Mcneill, Virginia Commonwealth University
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-lab-d-scans-human-skeletal.html#jCpFriday, October 12, 2018
Wayne Meyers, leprosy specialist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, has passed away
The Washington Post ran an obituary for Dr. Meyers.
A 1993 oral history done for the Museum can be seen online.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
McGill Medical Museum featured in local paper
| Restored museum unlocks McGill's medical history The Maude Abbott Medical Museum provides visitors with insight into the rich history of medical studies at McGill as well as the rare opportunity to see ... |
Monday, October 1, 2018
Brain collection at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute
It's like a petting zoo for organs.
Friday, September 21, 2018
More on the McGill Medical Museum and Gunter von Hagens
Experience: I will be plastinated when I die
The challenges I face are immense. Suffering from Parkinson's disease is like practising dying
Hearts, brains and bones: Visitors to new museum will 'come a little closer to death'
'We have virtually everything you can think of,' says pathologist Rick Fraser.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/hearts-brains-and-bones-visitors-to-new-museum-will-come-a-little-closer-to-death-1.4828244Wednesday, September 19, 2018
McGill University reopens medical museum
Bones, brains, bladders: McGill opens body parts museum to the public
Interactive tablets will offer insights on the specimens, and "we'll also be telling the story of grave-robbing."
Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette September 18, 2018
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Facial reconstruction photos on NLM's blog
The National Museum of Health and Medicine also has thousands of these types of pictures.
Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington University and Fellow in the Living Legacy of World War One project at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is also the line producer for the United States World War One Centennial Commission weekly WW1 Centennial News Podcast. Today she employs her considerable expertise to give us insight into a private and profound photographic collection of an American surgeon in the Great War, now held in the public trust at the National Library of Medicine.
Monday, July 23, 2018
July 23: Medical Museum Science Cafe: Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I
You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture to be held at the
National Museum of Health and Medicine, 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD
20910, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, from 6-7 p.m.
Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I
During World War I, war-related psychological trauma was considered a new
manifestation of psychiatric breakdown. American military medicine was
challenged by establishing an entirely new medical specialty while treating
the stricken service member and assuring an anxious public back home. Explore
American psychiatrists' understanding of "shell shock" and what lessons they
did – or did not – learn from their experience. Presenter: Rachel Levandoski
is an historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office
and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
FREE! Open to the public. No RSVP required.
Andrea Schierkolk
NMHM Public Programs
andrea.k.schierkolk.civ@mail.
301-319-3303
Friday, June 1, 2018
NMHM archives cited in Washington City Paper article
LGBTQ People Suffered Traumatic Treatments at St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Mentally Ill[in print as Asylum Seekers].
"This is coercive federal psychiatry. ...This whole idea of LGBT Americans being broken and in need of a cure—religious or psychiatric—is still a pernicious, damaging lie."
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21007233/independent-scholars-uncover-the-traumatic-treatments-lgbtq-people-suffered-at-st-elizabeths
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Mutter Museum featured in Washington Post
In Philadelphia, a medical museum puts the human body on display
Sunday, November 5, 2017
John Kelly of the Washington Post on AMM building
Answer Man reconstructs the history of two very cool 19th-century Mall buildings
The medical museum was at 10th and E streets NW in a building that had ... Thus the remedy: a new home for the Army Medical Museum at Seventh ...
He includes a Post citation that I didn't know about...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Cushing's brain collection at Yale
In a basement on Yale's campus, a 'shop of horrors' concealed medical history
Monday, October 2, 2017
Australia want's skull in Mutter Museum repatriated
Australia seeks soldier's skull held at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum
This July 12, 1999, file photo shows a portion of the two floors of the Mutter Museum, a medical museum in Philadelphia. Australian politician Lynda ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
NMHM gets some executive branch interest
Readout of Second Lady Karen Pence's visit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Friday, September 8, 2017
Minor Civil War medical museums article in the Washington Post
A triage trail reveals the breakthroughs — and horrors — of Civil War medicine
My interest was piqued years ago during a visit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, which is full of Civil War-era artifacts such as Union ...
Monday, July 17, 2017
Editorial on NMHM repatriation
Op-ed: Mountain Meadows Massacre victim deserves better than anonymous burial
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) has refused requests from six families to identify their child murdered at the Mountain Meadow Massacre ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
July 13: New National Library of Medicine history book premiere
You are cordially invited to a public symposium to mark the recent publication of Images of America: US National Library of Medicine, and the simultaneous availability via NLM Digital Collections of the complete book at:
https://collections.nlm.nih.
and original versions of the 170+ images which appear in the book in black and white:
Learn more about this new, publicly-available publication here:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/
The symposium will be a part of the NLM History of Medicine Lecture Series and will take place this Thursday, July 13, 2016, from 2:30pm to 4pm in Lipsett Amphitheater on the first floor of the NIH Clinical Center, Building 10, on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD. PLEASE NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND VENUE.
If you cannot join us onsite, you can watch the proceedings via NIH Videocasting: https://videocast.nih.gov/. You can also participate in the proceedings via Twitter by following #NLMHistTalk.
Sign language interpretation is provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate may contact Stephen J. Greenberg at 301-827-4577, or by email at stephen.greenberg@nih.gov, or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).
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/Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Gallaudet University's aviation medicine exhibit
Deaf Difference + Space Survival Exhibit is an excellent exhibit on the use of deaf men with no sense of balance to experiment on how they and the Mercury 7 astronauts would deal with weightlessness and centrifugal forces. If you're around Washington, DC, it's well worth seeing. An account of the experiments is here - https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-being-deaf-made-difference-space-research
My photographs of a tour with historian Jean Bergey and original volunteer Harry Larson (and Navy Medicine historian Andre Sobocinski) can be seen here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/albums/72157684118530696
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Budapest's ‘Hospital in the Rock’ medical museum
Interesting feature on a cave hospital used in WWII and the Hungarian uprising that is now a museum - http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170421-budapests-secret-underground-hospital
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Pharmacy museums featured on Atlas Obscura
What Ho, Apothecary! 18 Intriguing Pharmacy Museums
Take a calmative and visit one of these preserved drug preparers.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/pharmacy-museums-world
Sunday, April 16, 2017
WWI material at Rose Melnick Medical Museum
World War I centennial display opens April 29
... at www.digital.maag.ysu.edu., by clicking on digital collections and then on the Rose Melnick Medical Museum and Base Hospital 31 glass slides.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
April 6: Stephen Greenberg on WWI medical photography
World War I Centenary Forum: The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album
Stephen J. Greenberg, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on "The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album" as part of the Library's World War I Centenary Forum. Circulating Now interviewed him about his work.
The 2017 Spurgeon Neel Award
The Army Medical Department Museum Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 2017 Spurgeon Neel Annual Award competition for the article of 5000 words or less that best exemplifies the history, legacy, and traditions of the Army Medical Department.
Named in honor of Major General (Retired) Spurgeon H. Neel, first Commanding General of Health Services Command (now U.S. Army Medical Command), the award competition is open to all federal employees, military and civilian, as well as non-governmental civilian authors who submit manuscripts for publishing consideration.
The AMEDD Museum Foundation will present a special medallion award and a $1000 monetary prize to the winner, who will be notified in advance, at a Foundation-sponsored event early in 2018.
All manuscripts must be submitted to the AMEDD Museum Foundation, amedd.foundation@att.net, by 30 September 2017. At the time of submission, a manuscript must be original work and not pending publication in any other periodical. It must conform to the Writing and Submission Guidance of the AMEDD Journal, and must relate to the history, legacy and/or traditions of the Army Medical Department. Manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated by a six-member committee appointed by the President of the AMEDD Museum Foundation. The winning manuscript will be selected no later than December 2017.
Additional detail concerning the Spurgeon Neel Annual Award may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Sue McMasters at the AMEDD Museum Foundation, 210-226-0265.
Named in honor of Major General (Retired) Spurgeon H. Neel, first Commanding General of Health Services Command (now U.S. Army Medical Command), the award competition is open to all federal employees, military and civilian, as well as non-governmental civilian authors who submit manuscripts for publishing consideration.
The AMEDD Museum Foundation will present a special medallion award and a $1000 monetary prize to the winner, who will be notified in advance, at a Foundation-sponsored event early in 2018.
All manuscripts must be submitted to the AMEDD Museum Foundation, amedd.foundation@att.net, by 30 September 2017. At the time of submission, a manuscript must be original work and not pending publication in any other periodical. It must conform to the Writing and Submission Guidance of the AMEDD Journal, and must relate to the history, legacy and/or traditions of the Army Medical Department. Manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated by a six-member committee appointed by the President of the AMEDD Museum Foundation. The winning manuscript will be selected no later than December 2017.
Additional detail concerning the Spurgeon Neel Annual Award may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Sue McMasters at the AMEDD Museum Foundation, 210-226-0265.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
April 6: Sarah Eilers speaks on WWI facial reconstruction
World War I Centenary Forum: Masking Devastation
by Circulating NowSarah Eilers, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on "Masking Devastation: Inside Anna Ladd's Paris Studio" as part of the Library's World War I Centenary Forum. Circulating Now interviewed her about her work.
Circulating Now: Please tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? What do you do? What is your typical workday like?
The original film she discusses is at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, since the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology no longer exists. See the rest of the interview at https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/04/04/world-war-i-centenary-forum-masking-devastation/
Monday, March 27, 2017
Mobile Medical Museum featured on tv
Mobile Medical Museum full of interesting artifacts
Mar 24, 2017Thursday, March 23, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
New York Academy of Medicine archivist featured online
Rebecca Pou | Movers & Shakers 2017 – Digital Developers
St. Elizabeths hospital exhibit at National Building Museum
Architecture of an Asylum: St Elizabeths 1852-2017
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.
The Octagon House is the architects society's museum and it got a large model of the hospital (over my objections). 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.
.
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
[I saw a much earlier version of this research, and recommend this].
You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Tuesday, March 21, from 2pm to 3:30pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. This special program will be the first annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. This is a new annual lecture at the NLM which honors the legacy of Michael E. DeBakey as it exists in modern medical practice and in the ongoing public service of the NLM.
This year, there will be two speakers at this inaugural event:
"'Intentional Impact' The Legacy of Michael E. DeBakey Beyond the Operating Room"
Shelley McKellar, PhD, The Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Associate Professor, with Joint Appointment with the Department of Surgery, Western University, Canada
"A Brief Look at Michael E. DeBakey's Role in Establishing the National Library of Medicine as It Is Today"
George P. Noon, MD, Professor of Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine is supported by a generous gift to the NLM by the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Foundation
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 301-827-4577, e-mail stephen.greenberg@nih.gov, or via 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:
Here also you can read interviews with previous lecturers:
Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NLM Visitors and Security website:
Sponsored by:
NLM's History of Medicine Division
Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, Chief
Event contact:
Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
Section Head, Rare Books & Early Manuscripts
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine, NIH
301-827-4577
stephen.greenberg@nih.govThursday, February 16, 2017
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Search for new Director - Florence Nightingale Museum in London
The Board of Trustees are currently recruiting for a new Director at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London – please see link below.
https://jobs.theguardian.com/
The Florence Nightingale Museum
Museum: 020 7188 4400
Direct line: 020 7188 2830
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www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Edward Jenner Museum in financial trouble
Museum At The Birthplace Of Vaccination Needs Booster Dose Of Funds To Stay Open
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
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
University at Buffalo Museum of Neuroanatomy featured on tv
Unique Places: Buffalo's Brain Museum
http://www.wgrz.com/news/unique-places-buffalos-brain-museum/343981718
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Dittrick Museum featured
Inside Cleveland's fascinating Dittrick Museum of Medical History (video, event schedule)
Inside Cleveland's fascinating Dittrick Medical Museum. "Traditionally, the Dittrick had been a museum for doctors," said Edmonson. "But when we ...
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