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Figure 10. — An exhibit on superstitions, i mpirii ism. manic, and faith healing in the light 

 of scientific medicine, completed in 1962, is in sharp contrast with that shown in figui 



Smithsonian Institution was inaugurated. As the 

 exhibits in this field increased, the Division, in 1939, 

 took the more comprehensive title of Division of 

 Medicine and Public Health. Also, in 1939, Dr. 

 Whitebread was promoted to the rank of associate 

 curator. 



He continued Iris efforts to collect more specimens 

 of interest to medical history and to contribute to the 

 literature. Among exhibited specimens in 1941 were 

 a powder paper-crimping machine, a portable drug 

 crusher, an odd device for spreading plaster on cloth, 

 a pill-coating apparatus, various suppository molds, a 

 lozenge cutter, and an ingenious Seidlitz powder 

 machine. 1 he derivation of medicinal drugs from 

 animal, vegetable, and mineral sources was also 



depicted, as were synthetic materials and their inter- 

 mediates. Basic prescription materials were displayed, 

 and row v ,,1 glass-em losed cases held samples of crude 

 liotanical drugs from almost ever) part of the globe 

 with explanatory cards giving brief, concise descrip- 

 tions. The exhibition provided medical and pharma- 

 ceutical students about to take state-board examina- 

 tions, the Opportunity to Study the subject in detail. 

 til) the enormous collection of materia medica 

 samples. 15 Also in 1941, Eli Lilly and Compan) 

 donated an exhibit on the medical treatment of 

 various types of anemia. In the same year, a diorama 



Kims . -Ill- Din. is Pharmacy Exhibits at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution," pp. 20-21. 



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