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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Mutter Museum claims another fan

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Mutter Museum: More than just a freak show ELIZABETH ROBERTSON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The Mutter Museum is home to the Hyrtl Skull Collect...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

BUMED history office uploads 2500th item to Medical Heritage Library

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Today we interrupted our uploading of The Examiner, Naval Hospital Twentynine Palm's base newspaper, to upload our 2500th item.  Upon r...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Kennedy assassination records at the National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Reclaiming history from the conspiracy theories Lodi News-Sentinel The writings were released by the National...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Woodward's 1870 histology online now

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Report to the Surgeon General, of the United States Army, on certain points connected with the histology of minute bloodvessels (1870) by J...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Nov 5: NLM History of Medicine Lecture on antibiotics

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  You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Wednesday, November 5, from 2pm to 3pm in the NLM V...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Civil War images on Flickr

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Before I left the Museum, I got a few hundred of the Civil War photographs online. An article featuring them went online today. ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Battlefield Surgery 101 catalog available electronically for the first time

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Battlefield Surgery 101: From The Civil War To Vietnam Part 1 Patient Flow in a Theater of Operations Dave Ed. Lounsbury, MD, FACP Colonel, ...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

World War I lecture by Army medical historian online

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The audio and slides from W. Sanders Marble's lecture, "Mending The Casualties of WWI: The Army Rehabilitates The Wounded, 1918-192...

Michael North of NLM interviewed

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Early Latin American Medicine in the NLM Collections by  Circulating Now http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/10/08/early-latin-american-m...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Dr Francis Medical Museum news

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State commission to consider handing over ownership of Jacksonville museum Anniston Star Officials of the Alabama Historical Commission will...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Medical Heritage Library User Survey

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The Medical Heritage Library is looking to gain first-hand information from our users. We've designed a very short – really! – survey th...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

VOA looks at the Mutter Museum

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Get 'Disturbingly Informed' at Museum of Medical Monstrosities Voice of America (blog) Mega Colon, or Hirschprung's D...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Otis Archives finding aids online

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The National Museum of Health and Medicine's Otis Historical Archives finding aids are back online with many new additions.

History of medicine on Ellis Island

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Shadows Return to Ellis Island JR Brings Ellis Island's Abandoned Hospital to Life By MELENA RYZIK New York Times Sept. 24, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Anna Ladd's World War I facial reconstruction work featured in The Post

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An American sculptor's masks restored French soldiers disfigured in World War I By Michael E. Ruane September 23 2014 http://www.washing...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Sept 23: The Visual Culture of Medicine & Its Objects

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Symposium The Visual Culture of Medicine & Its Objects September 23, 2014 Riggs Library, Georgetown University Organize...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Sept 2: NLM History of Medicine Lecture

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Dear Colleagues,   You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Tuesday, Septe...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Pictures from NMHM's Medical Heritage Library submissions are now on Flickr

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Pictures from NMHM's Medical Heritage Library submissions are now on Flickr. This includes the Civil War-era Pleasants photograph album,...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Two Army Medical Museum letters from J.J. Woodward

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Today, I ran across a photocopy from some old research I'd done, and experimented with putting it online at the Medical Heritage Library...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Johns Hopkins considering a history of medicine certificate

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from Christine Ruggere, Associate Director, Institute of the History of Medicine & Curator, Historical Collection ​ at Johns Hopkins U...