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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 23 2007 | medicine, museum, congenital anomalies, science, art, archives, collections
    National Museum of Health and Medicine | n m h m

    U.S.A.M.- The "be-all-and end -all" for medical studies.

    At the formation of the armed services, military policy was to forward all specimens of novel pathology to a central location. Warehouses full of novel wet specimens, stacked from floor to ceiling, badly catalouged and ill-lit from single bulbs above.
    USAM is also the premier forensic medical provider. As well as the leaders in infectious disease research. Yet they are very secretive, and unsung. Why? Who knows. Military beaurocratic paranoia? They invented the polymerization process used in the recent "Bodies" exhibits TWENTY years ago. Among other things. They deserve to be recognized AND FUNDED. Who is running this shit?? They are doing a horrible, piss-poor job!
    This site allows a 5 rating for the best. I rate USAM an 11.
    One of the most interesting places in the history of human existence.

    "Called the Army Medical Museum at the time of its founding, the NMHM was originally intended to serve as a base for the study of medical treatments during the American Civil War. In 1862, Hammond put out a call to all Union Army field surgeons to "forward specimens of morbid anatomy" to the newly founded museum for research. In modern times, it plays host to five collections consisting of more than 25 million artifacts, including 5,000 skeletal specimens, 10,000 preserved organs, 12,000 items of medical equipment, an archive of historic medical documents, and collections related to neuroanatomy and developmental anatomy."

    25 Million Fucking Artifacts.
    Americans, where are your priorities????
    SUPPORT USAM!!!!!