MUSEUM LOANS IMAGES TO NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine has supplied a copy of a photo of an X-ray of feet in properly fitted shoes to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Md. It will be on display through July 31, 2003 in an exhibit called "Dream Anatomy," which shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.

Michael Rhode, archivist, and Tabitha Oglesby, assistant archivist of the Otis Historical Archives at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, coordinated reproduction of the original photograph.

The image was supplied to the NLM after its curator, Michael Sappol, Ph.D., saw it used to illustrate noninvasive diagnostic procedures featured for the month of October in the 2001 American Registry of Pathology calendar that focused on the museum.

The National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, is the largest medical library with books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images. For information, call (888) 346-3656. Tours of the NLM leave at 1:30 p.m. Monday - Friday from the Visitors Center (Lobby of Building 38A - The Lister Hill Main Center). To arrange a group tour, call 301-496-6308.