Mobile Medical Museum

06/05/2026

We loved having you! Can't wait until your next visit.

06/04/2026

The late Dr. Kendall Foster, an OB/GYN in Mobile for many years, was eager to participate in our documentary but he passed away before we could interview him. Fortunately we were able to incorporate some unused film footage from an earlier project. Here he is talking about the Title VI lawsuit of his father and uncle, Drs. Maynard and Le Baron Foster, which ultimately led to the desegregation of staffing at Mobile's hospitals after 1968.

06/02/2026

Right now, there are **zero Black male applicants** for this accelerated **7-year MD/DDS program** through Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College.

That means this opportunity may not be reaching the young men who deserve to see it most.

If you know a Black male high school junior or senior with a strong academic record and a dream of becoming a **doctor or dentist**, please send this to them and their family today.

According to the flyer, the program offers:
✨ Accelerated 7-year MD/DDS track
✨ Potential full-ride scholarship
✨ A direct pathway toward medicine or dentistry

**Qualifications listed:**
• Black male high school juniors/seniors
• 3.5 GPA
• 28 ACT

Please share with parents, educators, pastors, mentors, coaches, fraternities, and community leaders.

**Exposure creates opportunity.**
Let’s make sure our young people know what’s possible.

06/02/2026

This is a set of Roman surgical instruments. Of the set at least three appear to probes; being long thin instruments with a broadened flattened head. One of the items is a small bowl with a spout let into one side and may be for blood letting.

06/01/2026

June is Pride Month, first recognized in the United States by a proclamation by President Bill Clinton in 1999.

One of the first films to sympathetically portray gay men was Anders als die Andern ("Different from the Others"), a German silent film released in 1919. It was directed by Richard Oswald, who co-wrote the screenplay with the renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. Conrad Veidt starred as a violinist who falls in love with a male fan and has to hide their relationship from family and the police while being blackmailed. The film directly challenged Germany's Paragraph 175, which had criminalized male homosexuality since 1871.

05/26/2026

We made the list!

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05/21/2026

On June 13, from 1 to 3 pm, the Mobile Medical Museum and Alabama Contemporary Art Center will present the opening reception of Evidence of Care, an exhibition of new multimedia work by Will Truran. Video displays, historical objects from the Museum’s collection, and donated materials from Mobile Infirmary and USA Health will be used to explore the past, present, and future of tool design, use and disposal in hospital systems.

In the artist's words: "After treatment ends and lives
are changed, the physical traces of caregiving remain behind. The materials, the sweat, and often the tears become evidence of the labor, urgency, and humanity found within systems of care. Evidence of Care is a multimedia art exhibition exploring the everyday medical materials that quietly support the work of medical workers."

This project was made possible by a grant from Alabama State Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Mobile County Commission.

Attendance is free for members and $7 admission for not-yet members. RSVPs are appreciated!

05/19/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Mobile Community Health Leadership Awardees and thank you to everyone who came out and made our event so memorable!

05/18/2026

Last week, USA student organization Generation Action was awarded a Mobile community health leadership award from the Mobile Medical Museum. The award was accepted by (left to right) Ellen Hamby, biomedical sciences major and incoming president of Generation Action; Paige Willson, international studies major and recent graduate, founder and outgoing president of Generation Action; and Harper Higdon, biology major and graphic designer for Generation Action.

05/15/2026

The tomato has a very controversial place in the history of herbal medicine. Cherry tomatoes are closely related to the wild tomato that is native to Central and South America and was a food source to the Aztecs. The word "tomato" is derived from tomatl, which means "swelling fruit" in Nahuatl, one of the main Aztec languages. Europeans brought the tomato back home in the sixteenth century. Some herbalists classified it as a poisonous nightshade or mandrake, but it gradually caught on with the aristocracy as a somewhat exotic delicacy. In 19th century America, Dr. John C. Bennett of Ohio began promoting raw tomatoes and tomato products to treat diarrhea and soothe an upset stomach. Soon, tomato pills were being sold as a cure-all. Chef Louis Perrin of French Lick, Indiana, invented tomato juice in 1917, when he ran out of orange juice. By then, improvements in canning and preserving food as well as better understanding of nutritional health opened the door for tomato juice to be embraced as a health fad for over half a century.