Letter of the Day: June 7 (2 of 2) - the Navy's medical museum

 

[The US Navy had a short-lived medical museum too.]

 

Museum of Hygiene

Bureau of Medicine & Surgery

Cor. 18^th & G Streets, N.W.

Washington June 7 1884

 

Surgeon,

D.L. Huntington,

Acting Surgeon General, U.S.A.

Washington, D.C.

 

Sir:

 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of a colored drawing of a Cremation Furnace, designed by Surgeon Charles Smart, U.S.A., and by him presented to this Museum.

 

The contribution is very acceptable, and the courtesy of Surgeon Smart is gratefully recognized.

 

I am, very respectfully, +c.

J.M. Browne

Medical Director in Charge