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From Army Medical Museum of National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Adrianne Noe

The Army Medical Museum was created when the United States Army's medical leadership issued the call during the American Civil War to send to Washington anything that would improve the care of the soldier. Thus began an institution that would, over time, give rise to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, military graduate medical education, key military medical research agendas, and a commitment to a repository system of research, consultation, and education that would influence the growth and practice of pathology world-wide. The slide presentation will offer an illustrated chronology of those activities and point to their common roots in the generic medical museum of the mid –nineteenth century and the very specific impulse to create a collections-based public and professional museum of military medicine.