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Contents
Page, | |
FOREWORD | v |
PREFACE | xi |
Chapter | |
I. The Institute and Its Ancestry | 1 |
The Threefold Mission | 1 |
The American Registry of Pathology | 2 |
"Unique in the World" | 5 |
II. Background and Beginnings | |
Some Medical Problems of the 1860's | 8 |
A New Surgeon General | 9 |
The Scientific Approach | 11 |
The First Curator | 13 |
Collecting Specimens | 17 |
New Quarters for the Museum | 23 |
Grounds for Anxiety | 26 |
Plans for an Army Medical School | 28 |
The Museum's Collections Grow | 29 |
Hammond in Exile | 30 |
The Second Curator | 32 |
Reorganization of the Museum | 32 |
Pioneering in Microscopy | 34 |
Woodward, Curtis, and the Camera | 36 |
The Museum and the Lincoln Tragedy | 41 |
III. Second Wind | 51 |
Supply and Funding for the Museum | 51 |
Increasing Activities of the Museum | 53 |
The Museum's Fourth Home | 54 |
Praise from Foreign Visitors | 60 |
The Museum and the Medical Profession | 63 |
The Museum and the Congress in the 1870's | 63 |
Enlarging the Aims of the Museum | 65 |
Varied Uses of the Museum | 66 |
Scientific Skepticism as to Bacteria | 66 |
The Third Curator | 68 |
The Museum and the Garfield Tragedy | 68 |
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