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    History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964
    History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964
    History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964
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    History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964

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      Title: History of the Division of Medical Sciences

      United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964

      Author: Sami Khalaf Hamarneh

      Release Date: January 29, 2009 [eBook #27932]

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

      UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

      BULLETIN 240

      SMITHSONIAN PRESS

      MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

      Contributions

      From the

      Museum

      of History and

      Technology

      Papers 34-44

      On Science and Technology

      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966

      Publications of the United States National Museum

      The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin.

      In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations, and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.

      The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume.

      In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins titled Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, have been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of that Museum.

      The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34-44, comprises Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each paper.

      Frank A. Taylor

      Director, United States National Museum

      Contributions from

      The Museum of History and Technology:

      Paper 43

      History of the Division of Medical Sciences

      Sami Hamarneh

      SECTION OF MATERIA MEDICA (1881-1898) 272

      DIVISION OF MEDICINE (1898-1939) 276

      DIVISION OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH (1939-1957) 281

      DIVISION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (1957 TO PRESENT) 290

      A NEW DIMENSION FOR THE HEALING ARTS 292

      FOOTNOTES

      BIBLIOGRAPHY 297

      INDEX

      Figure 1.—Early View of the United States National Museum, known for the last quarter of a century as the Arts and Industries building. Completed in 1881, it housed the Division of Medical Sciences from its establishment in 1881 as a Section of Materia Medica to the time of the writing of this paper. While the medical collection remained in the Department of Arts and Industries, by the end of June 1912 practically all other collections belonging to the fields of natural history and anthropology were transferred to the then new Natural History building.

      Sami Hamarneh

      HISTORY of the DIVISION of MEDICAL SCIENCES

      In The Museum of History and Technology

      This paper traces, for the first time, the history of the Division of Medical Sciences in the Museum of History and Technology from its small beginnings as a section of materia medica in 1881 to its present broad scope. The original collection of a few hundred specimens of crude drugs which had been exhibited at the centennial exhibition of 1876 at Philadelphia, has now developed into the largest collection in the Western Hemisphere of historical objects related to the healing arts.

      The Author: Sami Hamarneh

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