> National Museum of Health and Medicine Unveils Exhibit on Wartime Medicine
> in Korea on 50th Anniversary of Conflict
>
>     Washington, DC, June 23, 2000 - Blood, Sweat and Saline: Combat
> Medicine in the Korean Conflict an exhibit revealing the challenges and
> accomplishments of the military medical teams who served during the
> conflict (1950-1953), opens June 26, 2000 at the National Museum of Health
> and Medicine, exactly 50 years after the start of the Korean conflict.
>     The story of medicine during the Korean conflict comes to life through
> photographs and images and the personal recollections of medics, patients
> and military personnel. The realities of performing medicine in mobile
> hospitals are represented by the weapons, equipment, supplies, medications
> and medical instruments of the time. The tools of a Mobile Army Surgical
> Hospital (MASH) surgeon and real artifacts of human tissue and organs
> illustrate the toll that climate, injuries and diseases took on the human
> body.
>     Despite war-weariness just five years after the close of World War II,
> the United States felt compelled to react when North Korean troops, with
> aid from the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea in June of 1950. In
> addition to a lack of preparedness, the United States faced unique
> challenges in Korea, such as extreme weather, varied terrain, and exotic
> diseases. Through research and innovation, the medical teams succeeded in
> getting the soldiers to care faster and more efficiently, and making the
> treatments more accessible and effective. Due to research in the field and
> back in the United States, the medical teams managed to update and improve
> old models, and institute new paradigms.  The advancements in treatment in
> Korea outlasted the war itself by bolstering past findings and triggering
> additional research.
>     This modest exhibit utilizes the unique collections of the Museum, and
> includes images of soldiers afflicted with Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever, and
> models of a foot afflicted with fourth-degree frostbite and a heart
> pierced by shrapnel. The exhibit will be on display through July 2001.
>     The National Museum of Health and Medicine, founded as the Army
> Medical Museum in 1862 to study and improve medical conditions during the
> American Civil War, is a division of the Armed Forces Institute of
> Pathology. Open daily except Christmas from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the
> Museum is located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue
> and Elder Street, NW, Washington, D.C.  Public telephone number is
> 202-782-2200. Admission is free.

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