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.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
NMHM's former location becomes lede to New Yorker story
Black Wounds Matter
... in Washington, D.C., which housed the small but remarkable National Museum of Health and Medicine. The musty place hosted a steady rotation of ...
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Barts Pathology Museum article
24 September 2015 By: Londonist
Body Snatchers And Abnormalities In Jars: A History Of Barts Pathology Museum
Friday, August 21, 2015
NMHM to move under Defense Health Agency
This largely restores the status quo of pre-BRAC when the Museum reported through the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology to the Under Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
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3 US Organizations Set To Join Defense Health Agency NMHM was founded as the Army Medical Museum in 1862 and is home to a National Historic Landmark collection of more than 25 million objects. | ||||||||
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Robert Osborn-illustrated booklet online
The Navy's BUMED's Office of Medical History has put its 4000th item online at the Medical Heritage Library. It's Vertigo Sense, illustrated by cartoonist Robert Osborn.
Read it at https://archive.org/details/VertigoSenseSaturday, July 4, 2015
Lincoln conspirators skull's reburial, 20 years ago
The exhumed skull of a would-be assassin, and its long journey home
On May 3, 1898, the Army Medical Museum gave its collections of 2,206 skulls to the Smithsonian, saying they belonged more to the study of ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-exhumed-skull-of-a-would-be-assassin-and-its-long-journey-home/2015/07/03/cd2e7bd0-1ff2-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-exhumed-skull-of-a-would-be-assassin-and-its-long-journey-home/2015/07/03/cd2e7bd0-1ff2-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html
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