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History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964 By: Sami Khalaf Hamarneh (1925-) |
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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
BULLETIN 240 [Illustration] Smithsonian Press Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34 44
On Science and Technology Smithsonian Institution ยท Washington, D.C. 1966 Publications of the United States National Museum The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National
Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National
Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin . In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs
dealing with the collections and work of its constituent
museums The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History
and Technology setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of
anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each
publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific
organizations, and to specialists and others interested in the different
subjects. The Proceedings , begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in
separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History.
These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date
of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear
longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in
several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related
subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on
the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the
botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been
published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from
the United States National Herbarium , and since 1959, in Bulletins
titled "Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology," have
been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of
that Museum. The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34 44, comprises
Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in
separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each
paper. FRANK A. TAYLOR
Director, United States National Museum
Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology:
Paper 43 HISTORY OF THE DIVISION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES by SAMI HAMARNEH
SECTION OF MATERIA MEDICA (1881 1898) 272 DIVISION OF MEDICINE (1898 1939) 276 DIVISION OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH (1939 1957) 281 DIVISION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (1957 TO PRESENT) 290 A NEW DIMENSION FOR THE HEALING ARTS 292 FOOTNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY 297 INDEX [Illustration: Figure 1. EARLY VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL
MUSEUM, known for the last quarter of a century as the Arts and
Industries building. Completed in 1881, it housed the Division of
Medical Sciences from its establishment in 1881 as a Section of Materia
Medica to the time of the writing of this paper. While the medical
collection remained in the Department of Arts and Industries, by the end
of June 1912 practically all other collections belonging to the fields
of natural history and anthropology were transferred to the then new
Natural History building.]
Sami Hamarneh
HISTORY of the DIVISION of MEDICAL SCIENCES In The Museum of History and Technology This paper traces, for the first time, the history of the
Division of Medical Sciences in the Museum of History and
Technology from its small beginnings as a section of materia
medica in 1881 to its present broad scope. The original
collection of a few hundred specimens of crude drugs which had
been exhibited at the centennial exhibition of 1876 at
Philadelphia, has now developed into the largest collection in
the Western Hemisphere of historical objects related to the
healing arts. THE AUTHOR: Sami Hamarneh is the curator of the Division of
Medical Sciences in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of
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