Army (only) for a few years), and the President of the Medical Societ) of the District of Columbia. 1 [annual report of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution furtlii>, for 1882[hereafter referred to as the Smithsonian Annua!. For this reason, the Navy decided not to create a similar agency for a health museum, just as the Army started the Medical Museum (of.
The Division's extremely vigorous operations were the result of the ingenuity of the first honorary curator. Museum as well as a useful, detailed catalog of information labels of the individual objects on display. The unpublished catalog is still the property of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Division of Medical Sciences' Library.
Beyer helped organize and classify the materia medica collection without attempting to materially expand the scope of the section. A change in the name of the section was deemed necessary and so the more inclusive title of Department of Medicine was adopted in 1898. Plans for the further development of the Hall of Health continued in 1926 and contacts were made with organizations interested in the educational aspects of medicine.
In 1926, the American Optometric Association helped install an exhibit on vision preservation or eye care under the slogan "Save Your Vision," as a phase of health work.
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Since patent designs were created for inventions designed to simplify the practice of the health professions, three cases of these designs appeared in the medical gallery) in Earl) I930. Other exhibitions during this decade included the spoof of folk medicine with warnings against superstition and an exhibition on osteopathy. 34; D.Rinv Moori published 1 series of short reports under the title "Commission on Osteopathic Exhibits in the 1st National Museum", in the Journal ofIf.
Whitebread was an active contributor to health literature in various periodicals, as well as pamphlets issued by the Museum and other government agencies.
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Smithsonianphoto 27049.) . including a farm water purification hypochlorinator was installed in the gallery. first the Emerson iron lung was developed in 1931 by John. 1ms( () of Baroque fittings, including stained windows with Hessian-Nassaucoats and wrought-iron frames, were part of the mid-18th-century cathedral pharmacy "Minister Apotheke". It was offered for sale at September 30 to May 19, May 19. , Germany, who was an enthusiastic collector of antiquities, especially those related to the health professions.
Squil>l> and Sons bought it in 1932 and brought it to the Italian states "thinking it would take care of Lord. LaWall, who was originally hired to prepare a descriptive catalog about the exhibition, gave it the title" I he Squibb Ancient Pharmacy. ". At this point it should be mentioned that the members of the American Pharmaceutical Association have been keenly interested since 1883 that the National Museum should serve as the depository for all collected objects and documents of historical interest.
On the walls of the small laboratory room, which had also been used as a workshop and a studio, were stuffed crocodiles, shark heads, turtles, fish and salamanders, parts of which were used as remedies.
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Fischelis, secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association, considered the completion of the exhibition a triumph "as one of the highlights of the Association's achievements in 1946." 1 enriched with 0.1 number of historical people, among which was 0.1 "grosse Flamme" x-ray in. Other items included two 19th-century drug mills, an electrical belt used in pranks, two medicine chests, three sets of Hessian tar used in a pioneer Colorado pharmacy, a drinker, mineral ores and simply manufactured, chemical elements.
He was a pioneer in the field of medical .mieums and during his curateship developed .1 a moribund department into one of importance to the entire field. 1fig 16.— A rare 16th-century Antwerp medicine jar in the Sijuibbcollectiondep of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
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In the past decade, interest in the national effort to promote research and science in the history of medicine has greatly increased. It was therefore most appropriate for the Smithsonian Institution to play host on May 2 to two sessions of the 37th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine held in the Washington, D.<.
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The Hail 01 Medicine and Dentistry will depict the history of these two sciences with exhibits
In the medical field, early trephining and other surgical instruments will be displayed along with a diorama of an 1805 surgical operation performed by Dr. Philip Syng Physick in the amphitheater of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Diagnostic instruments such as stethoscopes, endoscopes, speculums and blood pressure measuring devices will be on display with a series of microscopes illustrating the development of these instruments. The early use of. anesthesia will be shown by apparatus of William Morton and Crawford W. Long.
The development of the devices of modern medicine and surgery will be shown by exhibits of the iron lungs and x-ray tubes, including a tube used by W.K. Roentgen. Examples of tooth filling are shown in exhibitions about the development of dentistry and oral surgery. and extraction tools, drilling equipment from the hand and foot motors to the first ultrasonic cutting instrument (1954), and the original counter-. Bxhibiionm rsing boi rLESen measures to promote children's healthioiiHiniri.ni the once common diseases of childhood, this view was completed in ig6s Smithsonianphoto |,., I . angle model, hydraulic handpiece and air turbine handpiece model1 that revolutionized dental instrumentation (with speeds from !00, I to -100,000 rpm).
This hydraulic turbine dr. Robert J. Nelson and associates of the National Bureau of Standards set the design pattern for the remarkable and successful high-speed air turbine handpiece developed by Paul H. reconstruction of the offices of famous dentists such as G. Black and the foam of American orthodontics. In addition, an exhibit is planned, which will include X-ray tubes and an electric dental motor, the first operated in the human mouth by the pioneer of dental skiography, Charles E. 3. History of 11mi '>i Pharmacei m m bo . present exhibits on "reconstructions" of apothecary shops: an 18th-century apothecary shop, originally from Germany, with a moderately elegant collection of medicines, jars, decorated medical bottles, scales, mortars and pestles, and other tools and accessories pertaining to the art of apothecary, and late 19th century) American apothecary with shelves filled with patent medicines and drug containers of various sizes and shapes. Displays will show the development of antibiotics and early tools used in iii.iiiiii.ntun- so-called "wonder drugs," including imoldom of Mr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.
In addition, a platform will be reconstructed to display the variety of pharmaceutical apparatus used in their preparation and production.
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ended June 30, 1955 (Washington, 1956), p. Smithsonian Institution; documents on its origin and history lit II.KT1N 240: CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY.
