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CONTENTS
Figure | Page |
6. Surgeon John H. Brinton, with a group of Union Army officers in the field | 18 |
7. A page from the first Catalogue of the Army Medical Museum. | 21 |
8. The first home of the Museum | 23 |
9. The second home of the Museum | 24 |
10. The third home of the Museum | 26 |
11. The "Incredible" General Sickles and his leg bones | 31 |
12. Lt. Col. George A. Otis, the second Curator of the Army Medical Museum, 1864-1881 | 33 |
13. Lt. Col. Joseph J. Woodward, MC | 35 |
14. Maj. Edward Curtis, U.S. Volunteers | 37 |
15. Photomicrography spreads | |
16. Pioneer photomicrography | |
17. Photomicrography by artificial light | 42 |
18. Diatom, a form of unicellular life of microscopic size, magnified by 2,540 diameters | 43 |
19. Bullet that ended President Lincoln's life, instrument used to locate it, and bone fragments which adhered to it | 45 |
20. Hermann Faber | 46 |
21. Sketch made by Hermann Faber | 47 |
22. Reward poster, revised | 48 |
23. Maj. Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, The Surgeon General of the Army, 1864- 1882 | 52 |
24. The fourth home of the Museum | 55 |
25. Museum visiting rules | 57 |
26. Main exhibit hall of the Museum, Ford's Theater building, 1866-1887 | 58 |
27. Early "dry" exhibits in comparative anatomy | 61 |
28. Wet specimens on display enclosed in glass | 64 |
29. Surgeon David Low Huntington, U.S. Army, third Curator of the Museum, 1881-1883 | 69 |
30. Bullet from the body of President Garfield | 70 |
31. Maj. Charles Smart, Surgeon, U.S. Army | 74 |
32. Dr. John Shaw Billings, famed Librarian, fourth Curator of the Museum, 1883-1893 | 80 |
33. Fifth home of the Museum | 82 |
34. Foundation and evolution of the microscope collection | 86 |
35. Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion | 91 |
36. Brig. Gen. George M. Sternberg, The Surgeon General of the Army, 1893-1902 | 92 |
37. Maj. Walter Reed, fifth Curator of the Museum, 1893-1902 94 | |
38. Army Medical School laboratories, located in the Museum-Library building in the first decade of the 20th century | 96 |
39. Early X-ray apparatus at the Medical Museum | 102 |
40. Early dental equipment | 104 |