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
He made 12 or 13 copies and then he got tired of doing that. And we have a van portrait not on view. We have one downstairs, which is another replica of that. For a while the gallery thought our van portrait might have been the original that stuart painted, but it is probably a very early copy because stuart wrote that he had rubbed that one out. In the midst of making replicas of the van portrait, he got another commission from Martha Washington for the portrait, x became the one that was used on the dollar bill and is the one that is modelled after. This one was a replica of the ahea athenium. This is the portrait of washington by stuart for that commission. Theyre not all exactly the same depending on stuart felt when he was doing the replica. Stuart said that washington was difficult to paint because he was so taciturn. Washington was not one to suffer that glib kind of conversation that stuart liked to partake in, so it was difficult to get washington. They said washington, when h
Charles wilson peel, the for tralt of john boringly that has so many al gore cal references and so many information if you take the time to look and understand it. It just requires bringing a fresh eye and trying to understand what the artist has been has tried to do. This was the second of a twopart look at marn portraits at the National Gallery of art. You can view this and all other American History tv programs at our website, cspan. Org history. American history tv on cspan 3 features the civil war every saturday at 6 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Weve covered the war extensively these past five years as many state and National Historic sites and local civil war groups hosted events to mark the wars 150th anniversary. To watch any of these past programs or to find Upcoming Schedule information visit our website, cspan. Org history. This is American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3, and in prime time on weeknights when congress is in reces recess. Each week ame
Thats a big word. 3d stereo lit graphic prints of soldiers injured in the war in iraq. These 3d casts were done at what was then still Walter Reed Medical Center and if you can imagine taking cat scan data and pushing those through a 3d printer, they provide the surgeon a real world model of that soldiers injuries. These were soldiers injured in the war, survived their injuries, were recovering at walter reed and the surgeons used these models to help plan future injuries. So learn what gone could be recovered or discarded, to plan for the prosthetic that might be used to reshape and protect that soldiers skull and then also found themselves limiting the number of surgeries and decreasing the chances of infection and haste thing the recovery of that Service Member and restoring some measure of the quality of life that they deserved. The last feature in the exhibit on innovations in military medicine focuses on walter reed, major walter reed. Walter reed who is known for his work in the
Campaign finance that took place at the Constitution Center. You can watch it tonight in its entirety at 8 00 eastern on our companion network, cspan. [inaudible conversations] and taking you live today to the Heritage Foundation for an update on the Global Response to ebola and the defense departments role in fighting the disease. This should be getting under way shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we ready . [background sounds] good afternoon welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our Louis Lehrman auditorium. We, of course welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web site. Would ask everyone here in house if youll be so kind to make that last courtesy check that your cell phones have been turned off. Its always appreciated. We will, of course, post the program on the heritage home page following todays presentation for everyones future reference and our internet viewers are always welcome to send questions or comments, simply emailing speaker heritage.