Figure 78.—A unit of the Museum and Medical Arts Department of the Museum, in World War II, is photographed while photographing a diseased native of a tropical isle.
Institute. The division was responsible for reviewing and reporting on specimens sent in currently, and also for research and education in the field of pathology.
Scientific Investigations
Studies in progress and those recently completed, listed in a memorandum to officers issued by the Army Institute of Pathology and the Photographic and Medical Arts Service on 3 January 1944, indicate the wide range of the research and educational activities of the staff of what was still known officially as the Army Medical Museum.
By the end of the war, the results of 62 of these investigations had been published—two of them in the new medical books, six in revisions and reissues of the Museum's atlases of the pathology of particular organs, and the others in articles in the scientific medical press. Fifteen of these published articles appeared in the American Journal of Pathology; 11 in The Military Surgeon; 4 each in the Archives of Pathology and the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery; and the remaining 20 in 15 other medical journals. In
