REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 109 
ing, and winding, and the installation of the historical series of sew- 
ing machines and textile machinery models which were transferred 
from the division of mechanical technology. The series illustrating 
the composition of the human body was brought down from the east 
gallery, where it had been shown for many years in the division of 
medicine, and reinstalled with the food exhibits. The latter were 
regrouped and their appearance very much improved. The new 
material, showing canning and preservation of foods by boys and 
girls, was arranged by States and installed in the large wall case 
in the east south range, where it has attracted a great deal of at- 
tention. 
Practically one-half of the cases of the exhibition series in the 
division of medicine contain new exhibits which were installed dur- 
ing the year. In all, 15 new exhibits were installed, and two cases 
completely rearranged with the addition of new material. The new 
exhibits have been arranged to show medicines obtained from the 
animal kingdom ; the use of sphagnum moss as a substitute for absorb- 
ent cotton; candy medication for children; steps in the manufacture 
of glass ampoules; the various forms into which medicines are pre- 
pared for administration ; the manner of obtaining and administering 
serums for the prevention and treatment of diphtheria, lockjaw, 
pneumonia, and meningitis; the importance of the cinchona tree and 
the poppy plant from a medicinal standpoint; how medicines are 
divided into classes based on their physiological action; the impor- 
tance of gelatin to disguise the taste and odor of unpalatable medi- 
cines; the progress of the development of pharmaceutical equipment ; 
how specimens are examined by means of the microscope, etc. An 
exhibit case devoted to Dr. Crawford W. Long, of Athens, Ga., the 
first surgeon to intentionally produce anesthesia by inhalation of 
sulphuric ether for a surgical operation, containing a number of his 
personal relics and documentary evidence to substantiate his claim, 
was prepared with material presented or loaned to the Museum by 
his daughter, Mrs. Frances Long Taylor. The Morton case con- 
taining the original apparatus used by Dr. William T. G. Morton 
when he demonstrated the use of sulphuric ether as an anesthetic, 
and personal relics of this famous person, and the marble bust of 
Maj. Walter Reed, were obtained by transfer from the division of 
history. The bust of Maj. Walter Reed was installed where it prop- 
erly belongs, in the alcove which relates to the history of medicine 
in America. It is here exhibited with pictures of Drs. James Car- 
roll, Jesse W. Lazear, and Aristides Agramonte, other members of 
the commission which proved that yellow fever is transmitted by 
mosquitoes. An important addition to the historical collections is a 
series of eight bromide enlargements of men famous in medicine, 
which includes pictures of the following: Aesculapius, the “ God of 
