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Daniel Sickles's leg
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The amputated right lower leg of Union Army general Daniel Sickles, lost after a cannonball wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, is displayed at the National Museum of Health an
Sickles's leg bones on display
Sickles's leg bones on display
Sickles and his shattered leg
Sickles and his shattered leg
Viewing the leg at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (1963)
Viewing the leg at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (1963)
Sickles re-visiting the battlefield where he lost his leg
Sickles re-visiting the battlefield where he lost his leg
National Museum of Health and Medicine
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Muse
Daniel Sickles's leg
…lower leg of Union Army general Daniel Sickles, lost after a cannonball wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, is displayed at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Sickles was a former New York politician who entered the army after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. After originally commanding the…
The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011.
The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011.
The Army Medical Museum and Library building housed the Army Medical Museum from 1887 to 1947, and again from 1962 to the building's destruction in 19
The Army Medical Museum and Library building housed the Army Medical Museum from 1887 to 1947, and again from 1962 to the building's destruction in 1969.
The former NMHM building (actually the basement of the AFIP building) on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) garrison, Washington, D.C., where
The former NMHM building (actually the basement of the AFIP building) on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) garrison, Washington, D.C., where it was housed from 1971 to 2011.
A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sen
A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sent to space; a box containing the tumor that killed Ulysses S. Grant, sectioned; a hand-cranked surgical saw used for cutting through bone in amputations, etc.; and a gilded skull, the first item in the museum's catalogue – original owner unknown.