Existing comment:
"As it is proposed to establish in Washington, an Army Medical Museum, medical officers are directed diligently to collect, and to forward to the office of the Surgeon General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable; together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed, and such other matters as may prove of interest in the study of military medicine or surgery. These objects should be accompanied by short explanatory notes. Each specimen in the collection will have appended the name of the medical officer by whom it was prepared."
-- Circular No. 2, Surgeon General William A. Hammond, May 21, 1862 |