Disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome to the National Museum of house and medicine. I am tim clarke, im the museums deputy director. Were here to spend a little museums civil war medicine exhibit and a special show of other things to you. The National Museum of health founded in 1852 and we were known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to of morbid cimens anatomy and to send them to washington for care and to ervation and study improve the care of the soldier. So at the time of the civil war, the museums staff were doing learned. Ness of lessons they were trying to understand the nature of battlefield, surgery, medicine and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues and counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection in ted during the war and the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. Actually, the first Museum Artifacts were actually on a surgeon ind the generals desk, and then in a building that we know today as build
Army medical museum. Our mission is much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacies of military medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and medicine, forensic bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, along. Long. , come a we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what 2 fromown as trauma bay an hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height of the iraq war, the hospital served as the evacuation point before soldiers were flown to germany and the for the next level of care. Trauma bay two was where the worst cases were treated. This helps tell the story of modern Battlefield Medicine and it shares that story by the deep gouges you see in the floor. If you can imagine, the gurneys being carried into the emergency gurney legs being kicked into place over and ov
Military medicine, one exhibit display focused on the advancements in surgical kits. We see a surgical kit from the time of the revolutionary war n and the war of 1812, compared 18 and contrasted with kits from rq afghanistan. One thing to notice in the surgical kit from the war of 1812 is that the knives may look to us today very much like kitchen knives or butcher knives, but these were the precise tools of that era. So its interesting to note that those knives are alongside the tools used to extract bullets from injuries and one can imagine the pain that might have been caused by even the tools themselves. Another object kit of note is the kit used to do a postmortem examination, an autopsy on the remains of the father of the United States navy, john paul jones, jones had died and was buried in france at the end of the 18th century, but in 1905 a surgeon named joseph corniel had jones remains exhumed and core kneel used this kit that we have on display to positively identify jones r
Shipping and handling. To look at items spanning over 150 years of existence. Civil war collection. Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke hello, and welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. My name is tim clarke and i am the museums deputy director. We are here to give you a short tour of the highlights of the museum. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, biomedical engineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from a hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height o
Hello. I am the deputy director. We are here to give you the highlights of the museum. The museum was founded in as the 1862 Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We have moved into an exhibit on military medicine. But we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from the Theater Hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height of the iraq war, the Theater Hospital served as the evacuation point where american soldiers were treated before being flown to germany and the United States for the next level of care. Trauma bay two was where the worst wounded were treated. This piece of floo