1Collections Manager, Historical Collections, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD, USA
A. J. Hawk, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Defense Health Agency, 2460 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, Email: [email protected]
A note from the Editor-in-Chief: We are pleased to present the next installment of “ArtiFacts.” In each column, the Collections Manager of the Historical Collections Division of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) will present a photograph of a visually or historically interesting artifact from the museum’s collection and provide the story behind the picture. The NMHM, whose collection was recognized as a National Historic Landmark, was originally developed from the Army Medical Museum established during the Civil War to collect “specimens of morbid anatomy together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.” Its mission today is to inspire interest in, and promote the understanding of, medicine to the public.
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