Figure 104.—President Harry S. Truman inspects an Institute exhibit on U.S. Government hospital services, shown at a meeting of the American Hospital Association.
Institute worked together, was the exhibit on malaria prepared by the staff of the Medical Museum in conjunction with Dr. Ernest Carroll Faust of New Orleans, La., consultant on tropical diseases, and constructed by the Illustration Service. This exhibit was shown at the 1952 annual meeting of the American Medical Association, where it received the Billings Silver Medal, and afterward was set up and shown at the American Public Health Association meeting in Cleveland, Ohio; at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the meeting of the American Society of Tropical Diseases at Galveston, Tex.; and was finally placed at Brooke General Hospital at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.[1]
Building and showing of medical exhibits, however, was but one phase of the activities of the Medical Illustration Service (fig. 105). Its "primary object" as stated by Maj. Carroll F. Naidorf, Chief of the Service for the greater
- ↑ Annual Report, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1953, p. 54.
