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.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
Measles genotyped from Berlin medical museum specimen
The Virus Buried in a 100-Year-Old Lung
Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a measles virus that infected a 2-year-old girl who died in 1912.
Sarah Zhang January 9, 2020Wednesday, September 4, 2019
NMHM and research on Einstein's brain
Expert Interest in Albert Einstein's Brain
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
NMHM digitizing bones
Modernizing Medical Museums through the 3D Digitization of Pathological Specimens
Thursday, August 1, 2019
NMHM 'vampire' skeleton featured in Washington Post
A 'vampire's' remains were found about 30 years ago. Now DNA is giving him new life.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
AFIP and NMHM mentioned in memo as having aliens from Roswell
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, June 18, 2019
Indiana Medical History Museum profiled
Sunday, March 24, 2019
NMHM and Dittrick curators on medical equipment
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
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
Gunther von Hagens
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.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
McGill University reopens medical museum
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
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/08/02/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.