Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology: Paper 43 History of the Division of Medical Sciences
Reading edition
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
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