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Army Medical Archive on Flickr

posted on March 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM MT, by Bob

An Army archivist is undertaking a massive project to digitize and make public a unique collection of rare and sometimes startling military medical images, from the Civil War to Vietnam.

This previously unreported archive at the Army-run National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., contains 500,000 scans of unique images so far, with another 225,000 set to be digitized this year.

Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist, is working to make tens of thousands of those images, which have been buried in the museum's archive, available on Flickr. Working after hours, his team has posted a curated selection of almost 800 photos on the service already.

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Entropion and trichiasis secondary to trachoma. Trachoma stage IV. Conjunctivitis, keratitis. Duration: unknown. World War 2. 20th General Hospital. Surgical steps for treatment of entropion and trichiasis.

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