> From: "MacGregor, Courtney L." <[log in to unmask]>
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> Flesh & Bones
> Online Newsletter
>
> August-September 2005
> Vol. 6, No.8-9
>
> In this issue:
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> National Museum of Health and Medicine announces opening of new
> Robotic Surgical Instrument Server exhibit The museum has announced
> the opening of its newest exhibition-
> "Penelope: The World's First Autonomous, Vision-guided, Intelligent,
> Robotic, Surgical Instrument Server." A robotic scrub nurse assistant
> with speech recognition, machine vision, and robotic arm path planning

> and targeting, Penelope was developed by Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc.,
> a Columbia University spin-out enterprise...Penelope is comprised of 4

> major hardware and software components: the robotic arm, he instrument

> platform, the system stand and the system control software.
>
> Read more.
> <http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/robotic_surgical.html>
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>
> National History Day student donates artifact to museum Robert
> Hamilton, 14, of Topeka, Kan., one of the more than 2,200 student
> finalists in the annual National History Day (NHD) program, has
> donated an historic artifact that he used in his project to the
> National Museum of Health and Medicine. Hamilton surprised museum
> staff by donating the brick that he used in his performance piece
> entitled, "Dr. Samuel J.
> Crumbine: Communicating Public Health Reform in Kansas," a 9-minute
> monologue explaining the achievements and progress Dr. Crumbine made
in
> Kansas in the early 1900s.
>
> Read more.
> <http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/students_donate.html>
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>
>
> Great-granddaughter of Museum's sixth curator visits archives The
> great-granddaughter of the National Museum of Health and Medicine's
> sixth curator, Dr. James Carroll, visited the museum to tour the Otis
> Historical Archives and to view records about her great-grandfather.
> Known as the Army Medical Museum during his tenure from 1902 to 1907,
> Dr. Carroll had a background in bacteriology and pathology, gained
> while doing post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins University in
> Baltimore. He was assigned to the Army Medical Museum to work with
> Maj. Walter Reed on bacteriology research.
>
> Read more.
> <http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/grand_daughter.html>
>
>
> Museum receives World War I era facial reconstruction lantern slides
> The National Museum of Health and Medicine has received nearly 200
> lantern slides from the family of a World War I era U.S. Army dentist
> who gathered them while serving in France and in the United States.
> They graphically depict patients who have received facial
> reconstruction surgery. Dr. Archibald Louis Miller, a graduate of
> George Washington College who joined the Army as a lieutenant in May
> 1917, was promoted to major in early 1918 and sent to Base Hospital
> No. 6 in France. While overseas he was assigned to the Maxillo Facial
> Services of the American Expeditionary Force.
>
> Read more. <http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/WWI_era.html>
>
>
> What They're Saying About Us
>
> Museum highlights military medicine
> "Medicine is important to the military and military medicine is
> important to the nation," the director of the National Museum of
> Health and Medicine said in describing how she and her staff go about
> collecting and organizing thousands of items for possible exhibition.
> "We need the raw material," Adrienne Noe, who is also associate
> director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, located on the
> grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, said of the
> charge to the museum from its founding in 1862 during the American
> Civil War. "Sometimes people will approach us" about donating
> something, but the museum also does "prospective collecting. We want
> that object [such as the improved self-clotting bandages being used in

> Afghanistan or Iraq]" because it was using military technology or it
> was a prototype in its field (such as the museum's extensive
> collection of microscopes dating to the 17th century.)
>
> By John Grady, Association of the U.S. Army News
>
> Read more.
> <http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/saying_about_us.html>
>
>
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