摘要：The National Institutes of Health constitute the principal research arm of the Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and 'elfare. The Public Health Service was established as the Marine Hospital Service, under the Treasury Department, in 1798. Scientific research in the P'ublic Health Service began in 1887, when Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun set up a small laboratory in the Marine Hospital at Stapleton, Staten Islan(l. This was the forerunner of the present National Institutes of Health, which nowN, includes the National Microbiological Institute, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, the National Cancer. Institute, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological D)iseases andcl Blindness, and the Division of Research (Grants. (1)
