THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM—ITS CURIOSITIES AND WONDERS.
Ford’s Theatre—Its Interesting Memories—The Last
Festivities—Assassination of President Lincoln—Two Years
Later—Effects of “War, Disease, and Human Skill”—Collection of
Pathological Specimens—The Army Medical Museum opened—Purchase
of Ford’s Theatre—Ghastly Specimens—A Book Four Centuries
Old—Rare Old Volumes—The Most Interesting of the National
Institutions—Various Opinions—Effects on Visitors—An
Extraordinary Withered Arm—A Dried Sioux Baby!—Its Poor Little
Nose—A Well-dressed Child—Its Buttons and Beads—Casts of
Soldier-Martyrs—Making a New Nose—Vassear’s Mounted
Craniums—Model Skeletons—A Giant, Seven Feet High—Skeleton of a
Child—All that remains of Wilkes Booth, the Assassin—Fractures
by Shot and Shell—General Sickles Contributes His Quota—A Case
of Skulls—Arrow-head Wounds—Nine Savage Sabre-Cuts—Seven
Bullets in One Head—Phenomenal Skulls—A Powerful Nose—An
Attempted Suicide—A Proverb Corrected—Specimen from the Paris
Catacombs—Typical Heads of the Human Race—Remarkable Indian
Relics—“Flatheads”—The Work of Indian Arrows—An Extraordinary
Story—A “Pet” Curiosity—A Japanese Manikin—Tattooed
Heads—Adventure of Captain John Smith—A “Stingaree”—The
Microscopical Division—Preparing Specimens, 475