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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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