Mississippi Valley

The chapter “Mississippi Valley” explains about scientific and technological sites of adult interest in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, including Hot Springs National Park, Transylvania Medical Museum, New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, and the American Museum of Science and Energy. The traveler is provided with essential information, including addresses, telephone numbers, hours of entry, handicapped access, dining facilities, dates open and closed, available public transportation, and websites. Nearly every site included here has been visited by the authors. Although written with scientists in mind, this book is for anyone who likes to travel and visit places of historical and scientific interest. Included are photographs of many sites within each state.

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Barker explains that the Medical Museum (Philadelphia) and the Medical Repository (New York City) were rare books in Maine that could not conveniently be purchased by young physicians. Because he was known to have an unusually good personal library, Barker was asked to excerpt some of the most extraordinary cases of consumption from those journals. For example, a twenty-year-old West Indian seaman died at New York Hospital with a diagnosis of phthisis pulmonalis manifested by extreme emaciation, cough, catarrh, and fever. On dissection the lungs showed no adhesions, no traces of organic lesions, and no inflammation. The physician was of the opinion that phthisis pulmonalis was “not always attended with tubercles and ulcers,” and that death was due to another cause. He suggested that in some cases the disease yielded to calomel, symptoms disappeared, but the patient still died.

Origins of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System

The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) is the only medicolegal death investigation system of the US federal government. Its origins can be traced to three dried tissue specimens placed on a shelf by a Civil War Surgeon General in 1862. The collections and the library of the Army Surgeon General spawned the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), the National Museum of Health and Medicine, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the National Library of Medicine. Pathologists of the Army Medical Museum performed the autopsies of assassinated Presidents Lincoln and Garfield and assisted with that of Kennedy. The now defunct AFIP created the first forensic pathology training program approved by the American Board of Pathology and then the AFMES. Col Ed Johnston, CAPT Charlie Stahl, and Col Dick Froede were the original pioneers of the AFMES.

Museum N.I. Pirogov: history and modernity

Сolleagues, students, members of the Russian Surgical Society of Pirogov put a lot of effort to create the Pirogov Museum to perpetuate the memory of the great Russian surgeon. The construction of the museum was carried out according to the project of the architect V.A. Schroeter for funds allocated from the State Treasury and collected from philanthropists. Museum of Pirogov was opened on October, 26 (November, 7), 1897. The collection of the museum included: items related to the life and work of N.I. Pirogov, preparations for surgical anatomy, surgical pathology, collection of instruments, orthopedic and surgical devices, patient and wounded patient care items, portraits, engravings, manuscripts and documents reflecting all stages of the history of domestic surgery, etc. The museum hosted meetings of Pirogov Russian Surgical Society, conferences and all-Russian congresses of doctors. The events of the first third of the 20th century negatively affected the fate of the Pirogov Museum. Since 1930 the museum of N. I. Pirogov was under the jurisdiction of the Military Medical Academy, its funds were transferred to several departments of the Academy, and the building of the museum in the 70iеs of the twentieth century was torn down. In 1946 part of the valuable items of Pirogov’s museum became the property of the Military Medical Museum. December 19, 2018 there was a significant event in the history of Russian medicine happened: a grand opening of Pirogov’s museum took place in the Military Medical Museum. At the opening greetings were made by representatives of Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Center (Moscow), Military Medical Academy. S.M. Kirov, Surgical Society, Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg, the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, etc. The basis of the exposition of the revived Pirogov’s museum make up the original things of the great surgeon: a hat, a sword belt, a sword hat, a cocked hat, a box made of Karelian birch, a smoking pipe, orders and medals, manuscripts, letters, as well as atlases, medical instruments, lithographic stones, etc.

The Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum – Part 1

This paper provides a brief history of the Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum housed in the University of Cape Town Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and introduces readers to the contents of the museum. Artifacts are contextualised and demonstrate the vast changes that have taken place in the specialty from the early days of ‘rag and bottle’ anaesthesia in the 1840s to the present. The role of a medical museum in preserving the history of the specialty, encouraging research and in using artifacts to teach physical principles relating to anaesthetic equipment is discussed. A follow-up paper will document the history of the museum.

The Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum – Part 1

This paper provides a brief history of the Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum housed in the University of Cape Town Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and introduces readers to the contents of the museum. Artifacts are contextualised and demonstrate the vast changes that have taken place in the specialty from the early days of ‘rag and bottle’ anaesthesia in the 1840s to the present. The role of a medical museum in preserving the history of the specialty, encouraging research and in using artifacts to teach physical principles relating to anaesthetic equipment is discussed. A follow-up paper will document the history of the museum.

Improving the automation of information support for medical rehabilitation and dynamic monitoring of the health of participants in wars and armed conflicts

An analysis of the experience of medical support of troops in the wars and military conflicts shows that their characteristic feature was and remains the constant improvement of the organizational forms of medical support for the troops aimed at optimizing the medical rehabilitation of the wounded and sick. The results of the analysis of medical support of troops during the Great Patriotic War showed that the composition and content of the sanitary minimum level for servicemen should be in constant accordance with the requirements for the level of professional training of servicemen. Organization of medical care for participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the Afghan conflict of 1979-1989 in the postwar period shows that the basis of all measures to monitor the health of war participants must be a system of active personal dynamic observation. Active dynamic monitoring of the state of health using automated information systems allows to solve the problem of restoring health among participants in wars and military conflicts at the optimal level, provides medical information necessary for assessing the health status of participants in wars, determining the scope and composition of medical and recreational activities. Active invitation of the patient, who is on dispensary supervision, makes it possible to conduct a comprehensive assessment of his health status. However, the effectiveness of the system of medical control over the health of war participants largely depends on the high degree of automation of information processes in the system of dynamic control over the health of a workable and efficient resource on a national scale. The implementation of the principles of dynamic monitoring of the health of participants in wars can be carried out through the practical implementation of Decision 36 of the Plenum of the Academic Medical Council with the Chief of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (1996). Special attention was paid to the necessity and urgency of the development and operation of an automated information system on the wounded and sick on the basis of the Military Medical Museum. At the same time, it is necessary that its electronic information module is located in the institution where the wounded and sick war veterans are kept in the hospital. At present, such an institution in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is an archive of military medical documents of the Russian Military Medical Museum.