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Military medical museum reopening There’s more than war in the Defense Department’s refreshed and relocated National Museum of Health and Medicine, which is celebrating its grand reopening in Silver Spring.
Docent Delores Christie studies the new exhibits for the May 21 reopening of The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. She is looking at a display of preserved human body pieces. With the relocation of Walter Reed Hospital, the museum, which was housed there, has found a new home on Linden Lane in Silver Spring. Unlike its old home at Walter Reed Hospital, the museum will be more accessible to the general public. Among other things, the museum owns the bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln, the amputated leg of Civil War Gen. Dan Sickles and other medical oddities.
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Tim Clarke poses at a display of facial casts of Civil War combatants taken for surgeons who attempted facial reconstructions.
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Medical instruments from a Confederate Surgical Kit circa 1862 at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring.
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Civil War era human bones that were amputated showing signs of osteomyelitis are on display at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. Osteomyelitis is an infection, the result of contaminated projectile and surgical equipment, which was common during the Civil War.
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The general public can watch forensic anthropologists working in a lab through a viewing window at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. In the previous location, anthropologists had no real working space to maintain and update museum exhibits and bring in new collections. This window gives the public an idea of what goes on behind the scenes.
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A human hair ball surgically removed from a preteen who suffered from a hair pulling and eating disorder at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. The hair ball is about the size of an adult hand. Such oddities in the human body are on display for educational purposes at the museum.
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Various angles of preserved, healthy human hands are part of a human body display at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. The display, which has numerous preserved body parts, gives museum goers an opportunity to understand the inner workings of the body both healthy and diseased.
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The tibia and fibula of Union Major Gen. Daniel Sickles who had his lower right leg amputated just above the knee in the Civil War on display at The National Museum of Health and Science. Sickles’s combat career ended at Gettysburg when his leg was struck by cannon fire. He visited his leg on the anniversary of the battle.
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A three dimensional stereolithographic model of a skull of a wounded service member produced by the 3-D medical applications center at Walter Reed Hospital on display at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. Custom models are crafted to get precise measurements for making prosthetic implants to replace missing bones. In this example, it would be a hole in the skull.
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Museum workers put the finishing touches on a display dedicated to President Lincoln's last hours at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring.
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A preserved human leg with elephantiasis on display at The National Museum of Health and Science. The leg was amputated in 1894 from a 27-year-old man who had elephantiasis for 12 years. Elephantiasis results from the combination of inflammation, scar tissue, and overall enlargement of surrounding tissues in response to a parasite.
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The portable medical bag of White House physician Lawrence Mohr at The National Museum of Health and Science. Mohr was a physician to presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and donated this bag to the museum.
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An anesthesia inhaler developed in 1864 by a Confederate surgeon for use during the Civil War on display at The National Museum of Health and Science. Julian Chisholm developed this device to inhale chloroform or ether through the nostrils, which reduced the amount of anesthesia and the surgeon's exposure to fumes.
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A preserved human foot with smallpox on exhibit at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring.
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An optical illusion viewing from the side of the Plexiglass display case of a preserved, healthy human head and neck on display at The National Museum of Health and Science in Silver Spring. Though somewhat shocking, museum goers have an opportunity to see up close the intricacies of the body under the skin.
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