Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. A special couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and museum was known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to collect specimens of human anatomy. To send them to washington for care and preservation. Staff doing the business of Lessons Learned theyre trying to understand the nature of battlefield surgery and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in nearly days museum is housed at the Surgeon Generals office and actually the first few Museum Artifacts were on the shelf behind the Surgeon Generals desk. That is the Riggs Building your the white house. It wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before movi
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
This is the operation room, this is the largest section of our facility. In here we have one supervisor, two pattern and makers. And the rest of the people you see working diligently are tailors. We build and maintain all the garments for the historic area of products. So maintaining includes laundering and dry cleaning. This rack right here is often issued to people and then its going to they can come in and pick it up and take it out for their use. Generally when you come to work here, youll get an allotment. Thats based on what it is you do and how you do it. Its about 60 to 65 articles of clothing. We we clothe from the head to toe and skin out. The average allotment is worth about 4,000 so quite an investment for the foundation. Here we have the two outfits that were manufactured in this building. On the right here is a fife and drum uniform. We have a large the fife and drum corps which is the musical component of the Virginia State garrison. You have red with blue facings. These
At this time dr. Timothy orr willd rour sessions, a of professor of history at Old Dominion University specializing in American Military history and the hicks of the civil war. Hes written on union mobilization and the lives of union soldiers. His research focuses on partisan conflict in the army of the potomac and also, a diverse set of interests, u. S. Naval dive bombing during the battle of midwayment he teaches American History, virginia history and the history of the civil war and reconstruction. Dr. Timothy orr. [ applause ] on september 13, 1917 a soldier received the iron cross second class. One of 5. 1 medals aacgwt by the german army. He was not pleased. He first said the medal offed him a sense of compensation for services but the more he looked at it the more despicable the medal appeared. The day after he received it he wrote, when i was left alone for a few minutes with the cross i had different thoughts from he focused on the colors and said he began to5pz imagine th nig
All things that were black but crusted in yellow. He wrote, it seemed like the cross were made of shell splinters, black blood congealed on a yellow dead face. Ban daniels crusted with pus, strangled cries of horse voices, gangrene flesh on a leg. The thought unsettled him. He was scheduled to return to the front the next day. He didnt want to see all those black and yellow sights again. Four days later he was killed. His opinion of the hollowness of glory well defined the ex peeshs of the great war. The symbol of the iron cross took on two meanings. One, the symbol of courage and fortitude. The other, the emblem of suffering and death. One was the vision of the strategist and politicians with the medal ought to symbolize. The other was a vision of the soldiers, those who remembered only the wars human cost. High minded ideals, love of country and patriotism were essential to the human character. How could such a transformation happen so quickly . I would contend that the sweeping forc