Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections

Juneteenth: History and Healing

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:00:13 +0000

On June 19, 1866, the first Juneteenth commemoration was held at Emancipation Park, on land in Houston that had been purchased by newly free African Americans, but freedom did not convey equality.

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Ghāyat al-Bayān: A Master Storyteller of Medical Knowledge Transmission https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2024/06/13/ghayat-al-bayan-a-master-storyteller-of-medical-knowledge-transmission/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2024/06/13/ghayat-al-bayan-a-master-storyteller-of-medical-knowledge-transmission/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:00:58 +0000 https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=29003 By Ayman Yasin Atat ~ During my recent visit to the National Library of Medicine (NLM), I had the privilege of exploring a manuscript, MS

Dr. Margaret Craighill: First Woman Commissioned Officer in the Army

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:00:05 +0000

In the course of her long and distinguished medical career, Margaret D. Craighill served as dean of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, and became

“St. John’s Court Is No More”: Code Enforcement and The Baltimore Plan for Housing

Thu, 30 May 2024 18:00:14 +0000

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Mission and Mandate: Navigating the History of Science Administration at the NIH

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:00:48 +0000

By Todd M. Olszewski ~ As a historian, I study the intersections among clinical medicine, health research, and health policy. What interests me especially is

Race, Pseudoscience, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Thu, 16 May 2024 18:00:44 +0000

By Erika Mills and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) tells the unsettling tale of a young mother

Stanley Stein and The Star

Thu, 09 May 2024 15:00:16 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest author Elizabeth Schexnyder, curator of the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville, Louisiana, to share the story of The Star magazine,

Preservation at the National Library of Medicine

Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:46 +0000

Preserving a collection of material objects that represents the knowledge of many individuals and creates meaning for diverse communities is a fundamental part of the

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Cataloging

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:00:39 +0000

A new online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th century pamphlets acquired early in the NLM’s history from

(Un)fit to Nurse: Efficiency and Discipline at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898–1916

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:15:17 +0000

An interview with Ren Capucao, MSN, RN on his NLM History Talk and his research on the Philippine General Hospital at the turn of the 20th century.

A Brush with the History of the Dental Hygienist

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:00:57 +0000

By Lindsay Franz ~ Springtime means spring cleaning, but do you include cleaning your teeth as part of your annual efforts, and overall dental health?

Hay Fever: The Nuisance of a New Season

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:05:23 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ Now that spring in underway in the Northern Hemisphere, you might be feeling a tickle in the nose alongside a warmth

Revealing Data: Navigating Historical Biomedical Technology Research with Digital Humanities

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:21 +0000

By Brice Bowrey ~ Historians must sometimes grapple with deafening silence in the archival record. They can just as easily find themselves drowning in the

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Digitization

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:49 +0000

A new online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th century pamphlets acquired early in the NLM’s history from

Sleep: Analysis of a 1-Year Diary From 1755–56

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:00:09 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes Hartmut Schulz, PhD, and Gerhard Dirlich, PhD, to share their research on an anonymous sleep journal in the collections of the National

Maxine Singer—A Life in Research and Advocacy

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:00:37 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ This week, as we observe Women’s History Month, Circulating Now highlights the career of biochemist Maxine Frank Singer (b. 1931).

Archiving Rare Disease Organizations on the Web

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:00:50 +0000

The National Library of Medicine launched a a new effort to document the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts as part of a new Rare Diseases web archive.

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Spine Repair

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:00:17 +0000

A new online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th century pamphlets acquired early in the NLM’s history from

Witness to History: Anderson R. Abbott, Civil War Surgeon

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:00:57 +0000

Anderson R. Abbott is among 13 known African Americans that served as surgeons during the American Civil War and one of only two that were commissioned officers in the U.S. Army.

The Medical Bulletin and So Much More

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:00:05 +0000

Explore a range of historically significant biomedical journals newly added to PubMed Central including World War I publications.

Anorexia in the Archives: Documenting the Late Twentieth Century Rise in Eating Disorders

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:00:16 +0000

An interview with Alice Weinreb, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on anorexia nervosa in the 20th century.

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: The Pamphlet Press

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:00:03 +0000

A new online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th century pamphlets acquired early in the NLM’s history from

NLM Collections Tour: Forensic Medicine

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:00:31 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about Forensic Medicine

Selecting a Surgical Solution for Ulcers

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:00:42 +0000

By Christopher Crenner ~ Can one surgical problem have more than one surgical solution? A version of this question vexed surgeons in the 1950s and

Joseph Lovell at Blair House

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:00:38 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes Cody A. Moore, from the U.S. Department of State, to talk about the connection between Blair House and the first Surgeon General,

At Holiday Time

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:00:52 +0000

By Elizabeth A. Mullen and Susan L. Speaker ~ Science and medicine wait for no one. They demand much from their practitioners and don’t always

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:30:05 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ On a quest to bring together and catalog the world’s medical knowledge, John Shaw Billings, an Army surgeon and book collector

Advancing cancer research in Africa: Harold Stewart and the National Cancer Institute

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:00:09 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes Mark Parascandola, PhD, to discuss his research in the Harold Leroy Stewart Papers at the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Parascandola is Director of the Research

Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aspirin Revisited

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:00:10 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ For centuries, people used willow bark to treat pain and fevers. However, it was not until the late 1800s that scientists

World AIDS Day: Visual Culture and Communities

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:00:43 +0000

By Christie Moffatt and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS

Searching for Pumpkins

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:43 +0000

By Lindsay Franz ~ Pumpkin season is upon us! Pumpkin flavored coffee, candles, lotions and even beer are everywhere as soon as the season of

Statistics for the People

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:00:51 +0000

By Christopher J. Phillips ~ Through the pioneering work of historian Harry Marks and others over the past three decades, we’ve come to know a

Louis W. Sullivan Papers Now Available for Research

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:00:39 +0000

The Louis W. Sullivan Papers document his tenure as Secretary of HHS from 1989-1993, his work at Morehouse School of Medicine, and his work on public and minority health programs and racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions.

Reading Remedy Books: Manuscripts and the Making of a National Medical Tradition

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:00:22 +0000

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Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:00:18 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ Today’s artificial intelligence and computer science technologies can identify a person, infer one’s emotions and tendencies, and provide insights about one’s

The Palmistry Entertainment of Praetorius, 1661

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:00:02 +0000

By Lauren Kassell ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Chiromancy, the art of palm reading, thrived in Renaissance Europe.

Making Exhibition Connections: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:00:52 +0000

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:00:09 +0000

Explore a new addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal presenting digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:00:08 +0000

The National Library of Medicine launched a a new effort to document the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts as part of a new Women’s Health web archive.

Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:00:18 +0000

An interview with Kelly O'Donnell PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on mid-20th century women's auxiliary organizations in medicine.

The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah: Medical Practice

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:00:32 +0000

By James Labosier ~ Read previous posts in this series: “The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah: Medical Heritage” and “The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah:

The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah: Military Medicine

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:00:56 +0000

By James Labosier ~ Read the first post in this series: “The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah: Medical Heritage.” War takes hold of everyday life

The Henkel Family in the Shenandoah: Medical Heritage

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:00:13 +0000

By James Labosier ~ Imagine a book co-written by many members of the same family over two or three generations; sons, daughters, and cousins contributing

Characterizing Carceral Health at the NLM

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:00:36 +0000

By Jessica L. Adler ~ While undertaking research for a book on the history of medical care in U.S. carceral facilities, I’ve been searching archives

The Artificial Teledioptric Eye, or Telescope, 1685–86

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:00:12 +0000

By Paula Findlen ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Installments of this lavishly illustrated encyclopedia of the anatomy, physiology,

Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart, 1907

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:00:10 +0000

By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart, published in 1907, was the

Huber the Tuber, 1943

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:00:18 +0000

Corky the Killer and friends contemplate locating a snug place in their victim’s body where they will be secure from attack by the body’s dog-faced defenders.

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Pasteur in the Classroom: Rediscovering a 1940s Film

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:00:17 +0000

Guest author Bert Hansen explores the background and influences of an interesting educational film.

Revealing Data: Visualizations in Historical Collections

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:00:55 +0000

By Adam Korengold ~ Data visualization is a new and quickly evolving discipline. While the modern form of the practice often uses complex IT tools,

Dr. Philip Syng Physick, Father of American Surgery

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:00:24 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Mackenzie Warren, from the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks to discuss the life and work of Dr. Philip Syng Physick.

Still Circulating Now: Ten Years On

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:00:19 +0000

Wow. It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since we launched Circulating Now. Ten years ago, the History of Medicine Division envisioned a dynamic

A New Collection of Public Health Posters

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:00:50 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In 2011, 30 years after Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was identified, Toronto-based sociolegal researcher Alexander

A Super 8 View of Women’s Health

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:00:16 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ Late last year, the audiovisual collection at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) received a donation in a format new to

Revealing Data: Mortality in Mexico City during the 1890 Influenza Epidemic

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, and Sydney Murphy from Virginia Tech to share their research into the reporting around Mortality rates

“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It”: Struggles and Stories to Be Heard for Today and Tomorrow

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:00:58 +0000

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The Public Health Film Goes to War

Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:08 +0000

Explore a new addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal exploring digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

A Materia Medica Animalia, 1853

Thu, 18 May 2023 15:00:26 +0000

By Harriet Ritvo ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This is a rare book in several senses. Not only

Remembering Mothers

Thu, 11 May 2023 15:00:05 +0000

By Nicole Baker ~ In 1935 Louis I. Dublin, Ph.D., a vice president and statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published “Lost Mothers,” an

Global Medicine in China and Taiwan: A Diasporic History

Thu, 04 May 2023 15:00:09 +0000

An interview with Wayne Soon on his NLM History Talk and his work on the Chinese diaspora.

Vegetable Soup: An Enduring and Accessible Legacy

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:15:02 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Rachel Curtis, Monica Gray, Laura Montgomery, and Miranda Villesvik, along with our own Jeffrey S. Reznick, to share details of

NLM Collections Tour: Climate and Health

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:00:50 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about Climate and Health.

A Child Went Forth, 1942

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:00:17 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ The 1942 film A Child Went Forth is charming, reassuring, earthy, poetic. In the opening black and white sequence, young children

Picturing Health for All on World Health Day

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:00:06 +0000

By Erika Mills~ World Health Day happens on April 7th every year, marking the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). For

Dr. Windsor: Gentleman Collector of Rare Medical Books

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:00:32 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ What motivates a rare book collector? A medical professional naturally accumulates an array of reference books particularly around their specialization. But

COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:00:33 +0000

An interview with Soha Bayoumi, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her exploration of pandemic stories in graphic medicine.

Equality, in Law and in Fact

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:00:18 +0000

By Danielle Calle and Sarah Eilers ~ The film A Question of Justice documents in powerful images and words the work of female attorneys and

Revealing Data: Reflections on the APGAR Score

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:00:34 +0000

By Kelly West ~ When I consider that I was once a sickly, premature baby brought into this world while my mother was on the

COVID-19 Web Collecting: Reflections at Three Years

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:00:12 +0000

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media content documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Remembering the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:00:42 +0000

Susan K. Laird and Termika N. Smith from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relate their experience with hosting a special event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the closing of the study.

Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:00:20 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ African Americans have always practiced medicine, as physicians, healers, midwives, or “root doctors.” Early black physicians became skilled practitioners, trained generations

Urbane Bass: Doctor and Hero

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:00:29 +0000

Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech on the life and service of World War I Distinguished Service Cross recipient Dr. Urbane Bass.

Biomedical Representation: Web Archive Collecting for “All of Us”

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:00:38 +0000

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media content documenting the NIH All of Us Research Program.

The Many Faces of Diabetes: Complications and Debility in Late 20th Century America

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:00:38 +0000

An interview with Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. on his NLM History Talk and his work on health disparities.

A Secret Language: The Perils of Transcription

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:30:55 +0000

By James Labosier ~ The task of producing typed transcriptions of handwritten texts involves familiarity. Often on first glance 18th and 19th century handwriting is

Top 9 of 2022 from NLM Collections on Instagram

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:00:42 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ Happy New Year! Before we dig into 2023, we’re taking a moment to count down last year’s most-liked Instagram posts from

Medicine and Miracle in a Medieval Monastery

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:00:28 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Winston Black, PhD, from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, to share his research on the oldest European

EggNog in History, Health, and Hospitality

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:00:38 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ Culinary historians have traced the origins of egg-nog to the medieval British punch called “posset,” warm milk curdled with alcohol such

Lawrence Kolb—Mental Health as Public Health

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:00:12 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new Profiles in Science site featuring psychiatrist Lawrence Kolb (1881–1972). This Profile

Dream Anatomy

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:00:03 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ People have studied and speculated about the innerworkings of the body for millennia, but there had been few efforts to illustrate

An Epidemiological Expedition, 1954

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:00:19 +0000

By Paul Theerman ~ Reconnaissance for Yellow Fever in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan, 1954 is one of the several dozen films that Dr. Telford

Coffee Rationing During World War II

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:00:50 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ Coffee shops today are ubiquitous: nearly every street corner, airport, hotel, grocery store offers coffee in a myriad of forms. Yet,

The Films of Virologist Telford Work

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:57:19 +0000

What’s in a Web Archive Collection? Summarization and Discovery of Archived Webpages

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:00:52 +0000

An interview with Michele C. Weigle, PhD, on her NLM History Talk and her research on tools for improving capture and discovery of content in web archives.

Life after Lockdown: Pandemic Perspectives from Peru

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:00:43 +0000

An interview with Kathleen Kole de Peralta, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her efforts to collect pandemic stories in ethical, inclusive ways.

Night-Mares in the Stacks

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:12 +0000

The Anatomy of Human Bodies… by Ysbrand van Diemerbroeck, 1694
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Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:59 +0000

An interview with John Mathew, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his work on cultural memories of pandemics in India.

Robin, Peter, and Darryl: Three to the Hospital, 1969

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:00:27 +0000

By Trey Bunn ~ I recently spent some time with a film called Robin, Peter, and Darryl: Three to the Hospital. This 1969 documentary, directed

Shutting the Digital Back Door

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:00:11 +0000

An interview with Kim Gallon, PhD, MS, MLIS, on her NLM History Talk and her work in digital humanities and Africana Studies.

NLM Collections Tour: Aging

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:00:46 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about aging.

The Ambulances of Antietam

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:00:54 +0000

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Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:00:04 +0000

An interview with Kylie M. Smith PhD on her NLM History Talk and her work on racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals.

Filariasis in British Guiana, 1963

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:00:16 +0000

By Michael Sappol ~ Originally published on Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM. Filariasis, a parasitic disease typically found in tropical areas, is

The History of Genomics Program at 10 Years

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:00:25 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Zach Utz, MA, Archivist and Public Historian, from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) History of Genomics Program—the only

Anatomy Set in Stone

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:00:47 +0000

In 2016, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) fielded a reference request seeking high resolution images of an anatomical atlas from our Historical Anatomies website

“What do you See?”: Stereoscopic Pictures, 1942

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:00:31 +0000

By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Most people have two eyes directed forward. In ophthalmology textbooks

Studies in the Anatomy of the Nervous System and Connective Tissue, 1875–76

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:00:08 +0000

By Eva Åhrén ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. It was owned by Charles Darwin, Jean-Martin Charcot, Hermann von

Challenge: Science Against Cancer, 1950

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:00:57 +0000

Read a new essay on the history of public education film making by David Cantor now available on Medicine on Screen.

Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:00:15 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes

Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:00:33 +0000

An interview with Samuel Thrope, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his work with Islamic medical manuscripts.

Making A Case for Comic Books in the Classroom

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:00:35 +0000

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Shakespeare and the Four Humors

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:00:34 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most recognizable in all of literature.

Merleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:00:22 +0000

An interview with William D. Adams, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his research on visual perception and art.

Necessary Instructions About Measles, 1824

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:00:29 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ The National Library of Medicine recently acquired a rare work on measles in Japan. Mashin Hitsuyo (Necessary Instructions About Measles) was

Elementary Hygiene for the Tropics, 1902

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:00:15 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This sometimes charming, sometimes dreadful little book offers a series

Courage Under Fire: Combat First Aid in WWII

Thu, 26 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Combat First Aid is a booklet originally published in Infantry Journal in May 1944. The guidance is designed to be easily recalled in an emergency and while it explains how to save a life, acknowledges that not every situation is survivable.

NLM Collections Tour: Nutrition

Thu, 19 May 2022 15:00:55 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about nutrition.

Emotions and Disease

Thu, 12 May 2022 15:00:14 +0000

The National Library of Medicine recently redesigned the online presentation of its exhibition Emotions and Disease. Held in the Library’s building in Bethesda, MD, 25

Hospital Postcards from the American Hospital Association

Thu, 05 May 2022 15:00:11 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ This National Postcard Week, celebrated May 1-7 2022, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce its recent

A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:00:25 +0000

An interview with Matthew Stibbe, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his research on internment during the First World War.

The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:00:44 +0000

An interview with Rana A. Hogarth, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on legacies of slavery in the early eugenics movement.

The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures, 1922

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:00:28 +0000

By Sander L. Gilman ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), Arts and Crafts guru and follower

A heroic homage to dentistry: Dr. Solyman Brown’s “Dentologia”

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:00:05 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jen Woronow. Her research explores social science with an emphasis on promoting trans-disciplinary discussion. Today she joins us with a

Margaret’s Book: A Natural History of English Insects

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:00:33 +0000

Published in 1720, Eleazar Albin’s A Natural History of English Insects includes vibrantly colored plates dedicated to women who supported the work. This copy belonged to Margaret Cavendish Bentinck.

Historical Films on Population Health and Family Planning

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:00:33 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ The National Library of Medicine has a rich new set of digital resources for researchers interested in the history of global

The Tragedy and Hope of Ninoshima

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:00:39 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jen Woronow. Her research explores historic and contemporary conflicts with an emphasis on examining the human side of war. Today

George Deacon and the Circulation of Homeopathic Therapies in Peru (1880-1915)

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:00:08 +0000

La Homeopatía, October 1888
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Adolf Nichtenhauser: Documenting the History of Movies and Medicine

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:00:26 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor to discuss a newly digitized collection of materials related to medicine and film compiled by Adolf Nichtenhauser (1903–1953).

Patient Pamphlet for Piedmont TB Sanatorium, VA, 1940

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:00:19 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on the Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium for

COVID-19 Web Collecting: Reflections at Two Years

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:00:30 +0000

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media content documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

NLM Collections Tour: Matters of the Heart

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:00:13 +0000

The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923
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What History Reveals: Slavery and the Development of U.S. Gynecology

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:00:58 +0000

An interview with Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on Dr. James Marion Sims and the history of American medicine and slavery.

A Pocket Full of Soup

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:00:24 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ January is National Soup Month, and for obvious reasons. This is the middle of winter for those of us in

Narratives of Pandemics Past: Archival Approaches to Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:00:11 +0000

An interview with Alexandre White, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his research on historical perspectives on the COVID-19 global health crisis.

“Human bullets,” A Russo-Japanese War Photo Album

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:00:49 +0000

By Alexander Bay ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This essay takes a look at an album of 50

The National Commission on AIDS, 1989–1993

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:00:15 +0000

June Osborne speaks with the National Commission on AIDS, June 29, 1993

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A New Year’s Day in the Life

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:00:53 +0000

A new year can be a turning point, a start of something new, a break from routine, a celebration. The historical collections of the National

Telling the National Cancer Story: Nearly 50 Years of the SEER Program

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:00:31 +0000

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act of 1971. Its passage created programs like the Surveillance, Epidemiology,

Wartime Incarceration of Deaf Japanese Americans

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:00:44 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes Selena Moon, MA, a public historian researching Japanese American mixed race history, military history, and disability history. Today she joins us to

NLM Collections Tour: HIV/AIDS

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:00:50 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. To commemorate the 40 years that the US has been responding to the crisis, this post features materials related to HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Posters: A Community Tool Used to Save Lives

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:00:42 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Theodore (ted) Kerr to discuss his research in the AIDS poster collection at the National Library of Medicine and his

Hospital Postcards: A Visual Chronicle by Collector W. Bruce Fye

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:11:10 +0000

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Illustrated color postcard of the Boston Floating Hospital at her pier at North End Park, as seen from Copp’s Hill, 1908.

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The 1936 NLM Centennial, Focusing on the Future

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:00:22 +0000

By Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie J. Kronenfeld ~ In 1901 United States Senate created the Senate Park Commission to develop the National Mall into the

Inez Holmes, Nurse and Veteran

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:00:46 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on World War II veteran and

Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data II

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:00:47 +0000

By Brianna Chatmon ~ Imagine you are building a house from ground up, every single decision must coordinate with the next. If you choose a

The Great Amherst Mystery, 1888

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:00:41 +0000

By Nicole Baker ~ The Great Amherst Mystery by Walter Hubbell recounts his personal experience of what has been purported to be one of the

The X-Ray, 1896

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:00:35 +0000

By Tal Golan ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Dr. William J. Morton (1845–1920) hurried this book, The X

National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:00:19 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ This year, October 24–30 is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Exposure to lead can cause neurological and cognitive issues, kidney damage,

Strange Bedfellows in the AAMS Archives

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:00:11 +0000

By James Labosier ~ The Association of American Military Surgeons (AAMS) originated with only fifty members as the Association of Military Surgeons of the National

Shared Suffering Onscreen

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:30:08 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, PhD, Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Seattle University, to discuss his research on the history of scientific filmmaking

International Film Festival Includes NLM Titles

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:00:25 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ Coming up September 24-26, the Healthy Scepticism Film Festival, a free virtual program organised by the Wellcome Trust, features a range

So, What’s New in the Past?

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:00:19 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ People continually create and recreate history, adjusting their focus to find answers to ever-changing questions. Over the past 200 years, physicians,

September 11: Remembering, Collecting

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:00:25 +0000

Recent additions to the NLM collection expand the variety of formats and diversity of perspectives and document the continuing impact of the event.

Peril in the Air: Pollution Activism on Film

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:00:25 +0000

An interview withSarah Eilers and Angela Saward on theirNLM History Talk about the intersection of filmmaking, government, and medicine working together to drive environmental awareness and policy.

NLM Collections Tour: Health at Home

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:00:27 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring materials intended to help people learn about and manage their own health.

“What do you see?”

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:00:04 +0000

By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Most people have two eyes directed forward. In ophthalmology textbooks

The Artist Book: Cover to Cover with Maria G. Pisano Part II

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:00:56 +0000

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The Artist Book: Cover to Cover with Maria G. Pisano Part I

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:00:40 +0000

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Follow NLM Collections Now on Instagram

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:00:25 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that we have joined Instagram! Follow @nlm_collections to see highlights from our

First Aid on the Battlefield, 1869

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:00:49 +0000

By Mark Harrison ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 1870–71 the Prussian war machine tore through France with ruthless

Precautions for Doctors, 1495

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:00:21 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Richard Tait, PhD, who shares his research on a rare incunable in the National Library of Medicine’s collection. Dr. Tait

More Pictures of the Pandemic

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:00:48 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Three months ago Circulating Now published a post presenting new acquisitions related to COVID-19. As vaccination rates rise in our

Fifty Years Ago: The Darkening Day

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:00:20 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ In 1970, the National Library of Medicine featured an exhibition about pollution called The Darkening Day. The modern environmental movement had

Rodney, 1950

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:00:06 +0000

By Kathy High and Michael Sappol ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011 and also available on Medicine on Screen: Films

Love Song of the Periodical Cicada: “tsh-e-e-E-E-E-E-E-e-ou”

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:00:59 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ A few remarks upon Cicada septendecim will doubtless prove of interest now that the species has been occupying so much attention.

Remembering Dr. Andrew C. Jackson and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:00:21 +0000

June 1, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Jackson, a prominent Black physician, was murdered during the massacre.

June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:00:41 +0000

Buttons created by Beowulf Thorne, ca 1995 featured in the Aids Ephemera, National Library of Medicine

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Dissecting Gender: Reframing Anatomical History Through the Female Body

Thu, 27 May 2021 15:00:25 +0000

An interview with Allison Hill-Edgar, MD, MFA on her NLM History Talk and her work related to connections between early anatomical works and contemporary medical practice.

NLM Collections Tour: Mental Health

Thu, 20 May 2021 15:00:59 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about mental health.

Exploring the Data of Web Archives as Part of Data Science @ NLM

Thu, 13 May 2021 15:30:44 +0000

Over the past year our project was to gain practical experience with tools and techniques for the study of web archives data.

An Articella in Catalan, 1475

Thu, 06 May 2021 15:01:20 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ The National Library of Medicine recently acquired a rare manuscript related to the Ancient Greek physician Galen. It is an Articella—a

Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:00:27 +0000

By Brianna Chatmon ~ I wasn’t surprised when I learned that some of the world’s oldest leather-bound manuscripts housed at The Nag Hammadi Library and

“Probably of Great Value Potentially”: Masks in the US Military during the 1918 Pandemic

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:30:41 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, Linsey C. Marr, Katherine Randall to discuss their historical research around the reality

Films of State: Using Government Film

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:00:48 +0000

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

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Pictures of the Pandemic

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:30:12 +0000

Cartoon with a covid-19 message to stay healthy at home and plant a garden.

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Illustration by artist Brad Vetter with the word “garden”

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Public Health Rhymes, 1918

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:30:01 +0000

By Elizabeth Mullen ~ Germs that float upon the air Are sure to settle everywhere; They’ll be on pencil and on pen, And even on

Elizabeth Blackwell: “That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine” Part II

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:00:49 +0000

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s birth. As the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school,

Placing Women in Medicine: Maude Abbott and the Archaeology of Friendships

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:00:46 +0000

An interview with Annmarie Adams, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research in the Emanuel Libman Papers at NLM.

Elizabeth Blackwell: “That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine” Part I

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:00:47 +0000

As the first woman to receive an MD degree from an American medical school, Blackwell overcame many obstacles and laid a foundation for American women physicians.

NLM Collections Tour: Vaccines

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:00:19 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about vaccines.

Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:00:40 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ Immigration and migration are important parts of the American story; and health care and medicine have played a role in inclusion

What It Means to Talk about Race and African American Health

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:00:55 +0000

An interview with Naa Oyo A. Kwate, PhD, Rutgers University, on her NLM History Talk.

Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:30:12 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ Around the world, communities, in collaboration with scientists, advocates, governments, and international organizations, are taking up the challenge to prevent illness

Air Pollution is a Human Problem: Mary Catterall’s Campaign for a Livable Leeds

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:00:43 +0000

Angela Saward, Wellcome Collection, London, discusses the 1964 British public health film It Takes Your Breath Away.

COVID-19 Web Collecting: Reflections at One Year

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:00:44 +0000

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media content documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Behind the Camera: World Health Organization Photographers

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:00:03 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) collection of approximately 600 The World Health Organization (WHO) photographs is an emotional, visual

Defoe and the Plague Year

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:00:54 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Until recently, if one thought of Daniel Defoe at all, it was of Robinson Crusoe, alone (well, not quite alone)

Founding and Future: 50 Years of the NIAAA

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:00:38 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Laura C. Manella and Gregory K. Roa from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to celebrate the

NLM Collections Tour: Epidemics

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:00:09 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about epidemics.

Making Exhibition Connections: Spokane County Library District

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:00:54 +0000

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present

Education in the Eighties: Preserving HIV/AIDS Audiovisuals

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:00:04 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ This year, the Historical Audiovisuals Program at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), with support from the Exhibition Program, digitally preserved

Rise, Serve, Lead… And Publish

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:00:41 +0000

Circulating Now interviewed Ashley Bowen, Ph.D., about her NLM History Talk “Rise, Serve, Lead… And Publish: Including Women Physicians’ Writings in Rise, Serve, Lead: America’s Women Physicians.”

Airborne Infection Control in 20-Century Peace and War

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:00:28 +0000

By Tom Quick ~ The world can change unexpectedly in times of crisis. This story begins, like so many histories of medicine, with an illness.

Revealing Data: Flu Masks on Ships, 1918

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:00:41 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, from Virginia Tech to explore the use of masks on World War

Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:00:38 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Caterina Agostini, who discusses a recent acquisition at the NLM History of Medicine Division’s collection: the Ars de statica medicina

What’s Behind the Mask

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:00:30 +0000

By Elizabeth Mullen ~ As the end of October approaches many people begin to think about costumes. A Halloween mask could frighten your friends, hide

Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:00:39 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Katherine Randall, Linsey C. Marr, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to explore the history of public health messaging during the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Making Exhibition Connections: New College of Florida

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:00:48 +0000

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present

The Sulfonamide Revolution and Children’s Health Care Delivery in the U.S.

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:00:19 +0000

Circulating Now interviewed Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN, FAAN, about her NLM History Talk.

DeBakey in the Middle East

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:00:34 +0000

By Sara Farhan ~ The Fourth Annual Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA), hosted by the American University of Beirut, took place in Lebanon in April

Director Jones: Laying the Foundation for the National Library of Medicine

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:00:05 +0000

By Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie J. Kronenfeld ~ People familiar with the National Library Medicine (NLM) may not be aware of its long history and

Commencement During Coronavirus

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:00:16 +0000

By Christie Moffatt and Elizabeth Mullen ~ Like many other events this year, graduation was special, due to circumstances defining how graduates are entering the

Darkening Day: Air Pollution Films and Environmental Awareness, 1960–1972

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:00:52 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest Jennifer Lynn Peterson, PhD Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, to explore a

DeBakey in Baghdad and Beirut: The Internationalization of Surgical Education, 1945–1970

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:00:42 +0000

Circulating Now interviewed Sara Farhan, Ph.D., a 2019 Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine, about her NLM History Talk.

Mechanics of the Human Walking Apparatus, 1836

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:00:41 +0000

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The Langenburg Manuscript, ca. 1580

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:00:01 +0000

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Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:00:51 +0000

By Mark S. Micale ~ This essay was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011 and also available on Medicine on

Dental Cartoons, ca. 1945

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:00:47 +0000

By Alyssa Picard ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Will you be able to find a good dentist when

Archiving at a Distance

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:00:44 +0000

By Danielle Calle ~ I’ve just joined the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of a cohort of emerging library, archives, and information science professionals

Hooke’s Books: Influences around Robert Hooke’s Micrographia

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:00:19 +0000

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Fletcher: The Forgotten Founder

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:00:05 +0000

By Nicole Baker ~ If you’re familiar with A Brief History of NLM, or you’ve followed our series A New History of NLM, you’ve heard

Prevention Posters Push the Message

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:00:16 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Before the age of social media, posters were a primary form of visual communication meant to catch the public’s eye

Al Gore, the Internet and the National Library of Medicine

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:00:48 +0000

By Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie J. Kronenfeld ~ Since the late 1990, Al Gore has been ridiculed for supposedly claiming to have invented the Internet.

How We Help the Body Breathe

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:00:57 +0000

By Vicky Pohlen ~ The concept of artificial ventilation dates back to ancient history, although the earliest references to it are vague and conflicting. Stories

Revealing Data: Learning About Zika

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:00:01 +0000

NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.

Revealing Data: Dr. James Herrick and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:00:09 +0000

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When People are Data: How Medical History Matters for Our Digital Age

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:00:12 +0000

An interview with Joanna Radin, PhD, on her NLM History Talk and her work in digital humanities and the Pima Indian Diabetes Dataset.

Seeking Leek Island: An Interview with Pamela Robertson

Thu, 28 May 2020 20:00:21 +0000

In 2019, Circulating Now published two blog posts about a scrapbook NLM had recently acquired. One post related the history of Leek Island Military Hospital

Leonidas Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Thu, 21 May 2020 15:00:17 +0000

By Kaveri Curlin ~ Dr. Leonidas Berry was born into a strong religious tradition. According to his 1982 autobiography I Wouln’t Take Nothin’ For My

Nightingale: Lady and Legend

Tue, 12 May 2020 15:00:57 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Some people seem not quite real. Nightingale is not a simple figure to fathom; so much is obscured by her legendary image.

Relics of the Infectious Past: Disease Warning Sign Collection

Thu, 07 May 2020 15:00:53 +0000

By Charles Rosenberg ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The history of public health cannot be understood without artifacts

NLM Exhibitions and Epidemics

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:00:49 +0000

By Patricia Tuohy~ I am not an historian of medicine. However, many of the historians of medicine with whom I’ve worked have wryly talked about

“The World’s First Public Health Emergency of International Concern”

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:00:56 +0000

On April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2009 H1N1 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Screening the Nurse: Film, Fear, and Narrative from the 1940s to the 1970s

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:00:10 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor, PhD, an investigador (researcher) at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires Argentina and an

How to Wash Your Hands, Historically

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:00:25 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ A simple act of personal hygiene that practically every human carries out daily is key to preventing the spread of viral

F is for False Noses: A Dose of Humor from Joyce Dennys

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:00:05 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ When times get tough, a much-needed laugh can cut through the stress and fears that accompany uncertainty. But for those cooped

Archiving Web Content on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:00:11 +0000

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media content documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The Contraceptive Pill: Up for Debate in 1969 and Beyond

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:00:49 +0000

By Donna J. Drucker ~ G.D. Searle’s Enovid pill came on the market for married women in June 1960 when the U.S. Food and Drug

MD’s Wife: Subscriptions and Prescriptions About Medical Marriages Across the Twentieth Century

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

By NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow Kelly O'Donnell, PhD.

Making Exhibition Connections: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:00:38 +0000

Francisco Fajardo and Jorge Perez talk about hosting Surviving and Thriving.

Living Content: Digitizing Magnetic Media at NLM

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:00:03 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ “A whole collection of medical films, that sounds pretty interesting…and all the material is digitized?” Nearly every archivist has been asked

Tod Mikuriya Papers Now Available for Research

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:00:03 +0000

By Megan O’Hern and John Rees ~ Researchers interested in the history of marijuana and medicine will appreciate learning about the Tod Mikuriya Papers (1933–2015), a newly-available

The Girl in the Lion Cage: Regulating Hypnotism in 19th Century France

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:00:19 +0000

Katrin Schultheiss, Ph.D. will speak on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 2:00 ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine. Dr.

The Development of the DeBakey Classification of Aortic Dissection

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:00:37 +0000

By 2019 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow Susan Green, MPH

Card Tricks: The Decline & Fall of a Bibliographic Tool

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:00:17 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ There was a time, not so very long ago, when card catalogues were pretty much synonymous with libraries. You really

“Hurrah for France and Fried Potatoes”

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:00:33 +0000

By Nicole Baker ~ One of the joys of working at the National Library of Medicine is the opportunity to connect some of my personal

Pen to Parchment: National Handwriting Day

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:00:52 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ In honor of National Handwriting Day, we recognize the craft of the highly-skilled medieval scribes and artists who meticulously copied and

‘Barbed-wire disease’ during the First World War

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:00:45 +0000

U.S. Army Base Hospital Number 7, Tours, France: Chaplain taking addresses of German prisoners to inform families, ca. 1918
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Revealing Data: Charting Pain in 1879

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:19 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ Rollin R. Gregg’s Illustrated Repertory of Pains in the Chest, Sides and Back published in 1879, came to the National Library

Chinese Health and Hygiene Puzzle Blocks, 1960s

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:00:34 +0000

By Marta Hanson ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 2005 the National Library of Medicine acquired more than

Field Trip: National Museum of African American History & Culture

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 21:30:42 +0000

By Crystal Smith~ On a brisk morning earlier this month, I gathered with my colleagues from the National Library of Medicine for a group tour

Leather Bindings: Conservation Research on Animal Husbandry

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:00:01 +0000

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Contraceptive Knowledge in the Mid-19th-Century United States

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:38 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Donna J. Drucker, MLS, PhD, Senior Advisor, English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Here, Dr.

Visualizing World AIDS Day

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:00:31 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate

We Are Thankful For…

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:00:06 +0000

Thanksgiving reflections in which staff share their gratitude for the historical collections.

Who Was Here First

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:00:21 +0000

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) sits on the southeast corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

VD at the Movies: Public Health Service World War II Venereal Disease Films

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:00:04 +0000

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Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:00:33 +0000

By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek Island Military Hospital as a

Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:30:21 +0000

By Aliya Rahman ~ Across the globe, World War I—known by contemporaries as the “The War to End All Wars” —took millions of lives and

Remembering the Saints of the Plague

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:00:40 +0000

By Laura Hartman ~ Today, as many Western Christian churches celebrate All Saints’ Day, it seems fitting to remember the saints in the historical collections

Collecting Roses: The Catholic University Film Collection Finding Aid

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:00:02 +0000

By Ethan Cheng ~ I’ve always wanted to work in a library. As a student of the life sciences spending the summer doing neuroscience research

Joe Wilder: Surgeon, Artist, Athlete

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:00:19 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Madeline Stern Wilder, who shares with us the story and work of her husband, noted artist and surgeon Dr. Joseph

Profiles in Science: Exploring the Stories of Scientific Discovery

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:00:42 +0000

More than 30,000 digitized primary source materials in 40 collections celebrating twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.

The WHO’s Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:02:32 +0000

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/againsttheodds/exhibit/health_for_all.html

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World Health Organization: Picturing Health for All

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:00:41 +0000

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Bottled Milk: A Mother’s Reach for Infant Health

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:00:25 +0000

By Ashley Chang ~ For millennia, mothers around the world have made great sacrifices to ensure the survival of their children. These efforts have changed

Hosting the Congress for the History of Pharmacy

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:00:50 +0000

By Laura Hartman ~ On September 5, 2019, NLM welcomed twenty attendees from the 44th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy for a tour

Scientists’ Mind-Body Problems: Lobotomy, Science, and the Digital Humanities

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:00:29 +0000

Miriam Posner, Ph.D. will give the annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture in the History of Medicine on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 2:00 ET

A “Commentary” on Lambertus on Aquinas on Aristotle

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:00:29 +0000

By Walton O. Schalick ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Jorge of Burgos, the scholar-villain of Umberto Eco’s The

Leather Bindings: Conservation Research on Tanning

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:00:55 +0000

By Laura McNulty, Holly Herro and Kristi Wright ~ Have you noticed that books bound before the mid-19th century are in better condition than those

Psychological Cinema

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:00:23 +0000

By Amanda Maple (Pennsylvania State University) and Sarah Eilers (NLM) ~ From Experimentally produced neurotic behavior in the rat to Prefrontal lobotomy in chronic schizophrenia,

Making Exhibition Connections: Lamar Soutter Library

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:00:03 +0000

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present enriching

Lifting the “Residual Veil”: Biomicroscopy of the Eye

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:00:15 +0000

By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. An intense light that seems to shine directly into your

Following the Rear: Travails of the Union Army’s Ambulance Corps

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:00:15 +0000

The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War by Louis C. Duncan, Carlisle Barracks, PA: Medical Field Service School, 1931.
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A Bit of Hollywood in the Operating Room

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:00:35 +0000

Read the latest addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM. Caitjan Gainty, PhD, from Kings College, London, shares insights on the work of obstetrician and filmmaker Joseph B. DeLee.

Lunar Landing: The 50 Year Anniversary

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:00:52 +0000

The Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, 1969 is included in a collection of materials NLM acquired from NASA in 2014. Discover NASA historical materials and NASA funded medical research in NLM collections.

Making Exhibition Connections: St. Charles City-County Library

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:00:25 +0000

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present enriching

The Phantom of the Anatomy Lecture

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:00:55 +0000

By Michael Sappol ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. There he sits in retirement, still bearing the legend “Examined

The “PROMIS” of Computer-Based Medical Records

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:00:07 +0000

The National Library of Medicine recently acquired the Patient/Problem Oriented Medical Record System Archives, a collection of materials related to the development of an early

The Search for Cancer Viruses, 1966

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:34:15 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robin Wolfe Scheffler, the Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the

Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Epidemic

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:00:02 +0000

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first commercial available vaccine to prevent rubella, NLM launched the exhibition Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Discovering the Cause of Yellow Fever

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:00:26 +0000

By Tannaz Motevalli, Sarah Eilers, Laura Hartman, and Erika Mills In the previous blog post “Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research Before

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:00:53 +0000

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

Hot Spots of Human Destruction: The Howard Bishop Papers

Thu, 30 May 2019 15:00:22 +0000

By James Labosier ~ Howard Bishop was confident that he knew what was best for people and that people needed to be told. In the

Celebrating the Graduation Season

Thu, 23 May 2019 15:00:29 +0000

“The long looked for day has come and it is passed and all the toil is over for its attainment.”

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and His Influence in the Changing Business of Healthcare and the Delivery of American Medicine

Thu, 16 May 2019 15:00:23 +0000

Andrew T. Simpson, Ph.D. will give the annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture on May 23, 2019 at 2:00 ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at

Trapping Mosquitoes at Home

Thu, 09 May 2019 15:00:27 +0000

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Scan-on-Demand: Home Health, 1903

Thu, 02 May 2019 15:00:17 +0000

The National Library of Medicine’s Scan-on-Demand program provides the public with offsite access to digitized copies of historical medical materials published before 1924.

A Great War Postscript: Spring 1919

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:00:42 +0000

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Commelin’s Worldwide Botanical Web

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:00:24 +0000

By Harold J. Cook ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum … Plantarum Historia (the title

What Makes a Murderer: Dr. Bernard Glueck’s Psychological Evaluations

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:00:09 +0000

By James Labosier ~ Every murder is unique. Two nineteen-year-old sons of wealthy Chicago families kill a neighborhood boy in 1924 because they think they’re

Naming, Networks, and Power in Histories of Medicine in Africa

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:00:19 +0000

Sarah Runcie, PhD, on her article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

Networked History: Developing Quantitative Models of Qualitative Phenomena

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:00:25 +0000

Andrew Ruis, PhD, on his article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

A Network of Number Doctors: Biostatistics at the NIH

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:00:35 +0000

Christopher Phillips, PhD, on his article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

Rise, Serve, Lead!: Celebrating Virginia Apgar

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:00:15 +0000

To commemorate Women’s History Month, NLM launched the exhibition Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians on March 4th. Rise Serve Lead! features a database of

Of Unica and…Unicorns?—Identifying Unique Holdings at NLM

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:00:04 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ The National Library of Medicine recently digitized a 1501 edition of what is commonly considered the first printed book on distillation.

Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:00:03 +0000

To commemorate Women’s History Month, NLM launched the exhibition Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians on March 4th. Rise Serve Lead! features a database of

Hosting the Washington Conservation Guild

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:00:08 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Last month, on February 7, 2019, forty-five members of the Washington Conservation Guild (WCG) held their floating monthly meeting in

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:00:26 +0000

Poster illustrated by Theodor Geisel about malaria prevention.

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World War II illustration by Theodor Seuss Geisel created for the War Department as part of a campaign against malaria

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Fantastic Voyages through the Historical Audio-Visual Collections at the National Library of Medicine

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:00:40 +0000

An interview with Oliver Gaycken, PhD, a contributer to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM.

Informative Beauty: Anatomical Animation by Frank Armitage

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:00:26 +0000

This week, the National Library of Medicine introduces Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal presenting digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

Medicine On Screen: Films and Essays from the National Library of Medicine

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:00:37 +0000

Explore a curated portal presenting digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

March in February: Congenital Heart Defects Awareness

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:00:38 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Today is Valentines Day, a day associated with hearts. In fact, the entire month of February is American Heart Month.

Sign of the Times: How An Environment for Innovation Helped Transform Cardiovascular Surgery

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:10:03 +0000

By Alyssa Gabay ~ During the two decades following World War II, Dr. Arthur Voorhees and Dr. Michael E. DeBakey emerged as medical pioneers. This

Fifteenth Century Books: When Doodles Matter

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:00:50 +0000

By Laura Hartman ~ It may seem hard to believe that a random scribbling or doodle on an empty page or margin of an old

Stanley N. Cohen Papers Open for Research

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:00:19 +0000

By James Labosier and John Rees ~ An important new archival collection, the Stanley N. Cohen Papers (1948–2016), is now available at the National Library

Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:00:24 +0000

An interview with the curator of the newest exhibition at NLM, which explores how Philadelphia’s anxious residents responded to the epidemic using an uneasy blend of science and politics.

Opening the Vault: Finding Aids for Film

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:00:38 +0000

By Gabrielle Barr ~ Every day, staff at the National Library of Medicine are working to maintain and expand the online catalog that provides the

Closing the Book on “Shadows from the Walls of Death”

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:00:32 +0000

This collection of arsenic-laden wallpaper samples required special housing. NLM conservators encapsulated the pages in polyester film, welded shut with support from Smithsonian Libraries…

Remembering Elizabeth Fee, PhD, 1946-2018

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:00:02 +0000

Dr. Fee served most recently as NLM Senior Historian and previously as Chief of the NLM History of Medicine Division for over two decades. On October 17 Ted Brown, Professor of History and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, will offer a special public lecture in honor and memory of Dr. Fee.

Spice of History: A Gingerbread Recipe

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:00:19 +0000

Recipe books from the 18th century hold a combination of food recipes, herbal remedies, and other such household creations thought to improve health. Powell's "ginger bread" recipe includes ingredients easily found in today's grocery store and provides measures still in use today.

How to Become a Nurse and How to Succeed, ca. 1892

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:00:04 +0000

This guidebook by Honnor Morten, a lifelong advocate, provided young women with practical recommendations and a real sense of the possibilities of becoming a nurse in the 1890s.

From Discovery to Digital Science: The U.S. National Library of Medicine

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:00:24 +0000

By Susan Crawford ~ My grandfather, John T. Brundage, MD was the only doctor in Moscow, Pennsylvania, a community of about 1000 people. Practicing medicine

Detailing Michael DeBakey’s War Years: Puzzle Pieces

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:00:02 +0000

By Sanders Marble ~ In November 2017, I was fortunate to get an NLM Michael E. Debakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine to explore

Scope Magazine (1941–1957)

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:00:44 +0000

By R. Roger Remington ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Targeted at doctors, pharmacists, and other health professionals, Scope was

Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:00:50 +0000

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:00:50 +0000

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:00:26 +0000

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

One Medical Officer’s Armistice Day

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:00:57 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The newspaper headlines on November 11, 1918 were exultant: after more than four long years, the Great War was over!

The Truth About Black Cats

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:00:30 +0000

Superstitions about black cats are common even today and are reinforced especially during Halloween. For instance, folklore tells us that if a black cat crosses your path, bad luck is sure to follow. But appearances are deceiving.

Revealing Data: Investigating The Hospital’s file sizes

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:00:58 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ For researchers interested in the administration of British hospitals in the late 19th and early 20th century, The Hospital is a

“Fit to Fight”: Home front Army doctors and VD during WW I

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:00:11 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ After the United States entered the World War in April 1917, Dr. Wilbur Sawyer, a 37-year-old public health administrator with

Fifteenth Century Books: From the Cradle of Printing in the West

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:00:46 +0000

By Laura Hartman ~ Zodiac Man. Critical Days. Secrets of women. Chiromancy. Plague. Poisons. Aristotle. Hippocrates. You can explore these topics and many more common

Communing and Giggling with Cajal

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:00:58 +0000

Dawn Hunter, Anthropormorphic Neurons, handmade sketchbook, ink, pen and acrylic on paper, 5″ x 13″, 2015

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The Opioid Epidemic: Collecting Now for Future Research

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:00:23 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker and Christie Moffatt ~ In October 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared the current opioid epidemic a

Making Exhibition Connections: Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:00:27 +0000

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

The Forgotten Frontier: Nursing Done in Wild Places

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:00:25 +0000

Photo by Marvin Breckinridge, 1937. Published in Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service, by Mary Breckinridge. Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981. Original edition 1952.

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Making the Case for History in Medical Education

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:00:14 +0000

In 1961, chemists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) studied how to detect small brain tumors by analyzing the decay of radioactive material injected into the patient’s bloodstream and preferentially absorbed by the tumor. To help them, BNL’s Instrumentation Division built different arrays of detectors, and this circular type proved best. In the 1970’s, BNL helped reconstruct the raw data received by the detectors into an image of the working brain. This breakthrough led to more practical devices for imaging areas of the brain: today’s PET machines. Today, Brookhaven is a leader in addiction research. Today, BNL uses PET technology to study major areas of medical research including, drug and alcohol addiction; the development of a new strategy for addiction treatment; obesity and eating disorders; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); aging and neurodegenerative disorders.

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Letters Shed Light on Huey Long’s Murder Mystery

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:00:19 +0000

By Divyansh Agarwal ~ A seemingly typical Sunday evening in Louisiana, September 8, 1935, was about to become extraordinary. The House of Representatives had organized

Finding Hope: A Woman’s Place is in the Lab

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:00:54 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ While doing some research ahead of the 50th anniversary of the rubella vaccine in June 2019, I came across an image

The Tomatoes of August

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:00:52 +0000

Dr. Henry Swan was a pioneering cardiac surgeon and a talented artist, cook, and gardener as well.

Revealing Data: The Psychological Clinic Explores IQ in 1911

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:00:59 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ Alfred Binet’s intelligence tests, originally developed in 1905 for the French public school system, took America by storm. The test promised

Revealing Data: Why We Need Humans to Curate Web Collections

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:00:07 +0000

In this Revealing Data series we explore data in historical medical collections, and how preserving this data helps to ensure that generations of researchers can

Edward Jenner and “the happy immunity”

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:00:47 +0000

By Aliya Rahman ~ August is back-to-school month. While many of us are booking last-minute vacations or scrambling to purchase tickets to that almost-sold-out concert,

Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:00:17 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington

Revealing Data: Concepts and Controversies in Modern Medicine, 1969–70

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:00:13 +0000

Smallpox vaccination: should our policy be changed?, 1969
National Library of Medicine #8601126A

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Leonidas H. Berry, Multi-Dimensional Doctor

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:00:54 +0000

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

Inventor & Mentor: Dr. Leonidas H. Berry and the Gastroscope

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:00:30 +0000

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

Ephemera in the Dr. Leonidas H. Berry Collection

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:00:11 +0000

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

Leonidas H. Berry and the Fight to Desegregate Medicine

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:00:52 +0000

The National Library of Medicine provides public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982.

First Science—Anatomy, 1829–30

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:00:20 +0000

By Michael Sappol and Eva Åhrén ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Once upon a time, before originality was

Five Years in Circulation…and Counting!

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:00:11 +0000

Free things like air, Vital things like blood, Living things like ideas… Circulate. With this introduction, we launched Circulating Now five years ago this week.

NLM in Pictures—Read it This Summer

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:00:10 +0000

Putting together a summer reading list? Images of America: U.S. National Library of Medicine, published a two years ago this month in the popular series by Arcadia Publishing, is sure to please.

Making Exhibition Connections: Melnick Medical Museum

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:00:15 +0000

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

A Rapid Means of Casualty Evacuation, 1961

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:00:32 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Sanders Marble, PhD. Dr. Marble is Senior Historian in the U.S. Army Office of Medical History and a 2018 NLM

Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Flyers, ca. 1940

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:06 +0000

By Liping Bu ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Tuberculosis carried a social stigma for both the individual and

Revealing Data: Sewers and other Amenities

Wed, 30 May 2018 15:00:05 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ Ilfracombe, a seaside town in southwest England, in the early summer… Is the most inviting, when the orchards are pink with

Making Exhibition Connections: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Tue, 22 May 2018 15:00:39 +0000

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

Transplanting Technology: Dr. Michael DeBakey and Cold War Technology Transfer

Thu, 17 May 2018 15:00:06 +0000

Heidi Morefield, MSc, will give the annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture on May 24, 2018 at 2:00 ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the

Love…at the 2018 Orphan Film Symposium

Tue, 15 May 2018 15:00:59 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ Last month, I had the privilege of collaborating with Dr. Oliver Gaycken, professor of film studies at the University of Maryland-College

“Facts and Inferences”—Digitizing Shadows from the Walls of Death Part 3

Fri, 11 May 2018 15:00:52 +0000

NLM has digitized and made publicly available for the first time, one of four known copies of Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and

“Facts and Inferences”—Digitizing Shadows from the Walls of Death Part 2

Wed, 09 May 2018 15:00:55 +0000

NLM has digitized and made publicly available for the first time, one of four known copies of Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and

“Facts and Inferences”—Digitizing Shadows from the Walls of Death Part 1

Mon, 07 May 2018 15:00:16 +0000

NLM has digitized and made publicly available for the first time, one of four known copies of Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and

Remembering Vietnam—Donald Hall

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:00:33 +0000

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to collaborate with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to present the panel discussion “Remembering Vietnam:

Remembering Vietnam—Donna Barbisch

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:00:06 +0000

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to collaborate with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to present the panel discussion “Remembering Vietnam:

Remembering Vietnam—Merle Snyder

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:00:43 +0000

Merle Snyder Receiving an Award, ca. 1966

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Remembering Vietnam—Tom Berger

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:04 +0000

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to collaborate with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to present the panel discussion “Remembering Vietnam:

Remembering Vietnam—Dale Smith

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:00:47 +0000

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to collaborate with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to present the panel discussion “Remembering Vietnam:

The Power of A Name: Michael DeBakey and the Changing Business of American Medicine

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:00:34 +0000

By Andrew Simpson ~ In a 1994 article titled “It’s a Business. No, It’s a Religion,” The New York Times profiled two of Houston’s most

Graphic Medicine: A Personal Story

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:00:29 +0000

By Jill L. Newmark ~ When the idea for an exhibition on graphic medicine was initially introduced in the Exhibition Program at the National Library

Max Beckmann: The Faces of World War I

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:30:23 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ “My heart beats more for a rougher, commoner, more vulgar art … one that offers direct access to the terrible,

On Latin and the Rooster in Medicine

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:00:48 +0000

By Atalanta Grant-Suttie ~ Latin has been part of the fabric of communication in the Western World for centuries. It was the scholarly and administrative

NLM becomes an official part of NIH—April 1, 1968

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:00:34 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine (NLM) (formerly the Armed Forces Medical Library) was transferred to the U. S. Public Health

Scientists’ Hard Drives, Databases, and Blogs

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:00:47 +0000

https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a31954/

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WWI—“Can Women Physicians Serve in the Army?”

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:00:56 +0000

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY
IN THE WORLD WAR
VOLUME I
THE
SURGEON GENERAL’S
OFFICE
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

MAJ. GEN. M. W. IRELAND, M. T>.,
Surgeon General of the Army

COL. CHARLES LYNCH, M. C.
LIEUT. COL. FRANK W. WEED, M. C.
LOY MCAFEE, A. M., M. D
WASHINGTON : : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : : 1923

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NLM Manuscripts on Loan to Romance and Reason

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:30:56 +0000

Dr. Roberta Casagrande-Kim is research associate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and assistant manager of exhibitions and publications at the

Inside the Creative Mind of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:00:11 +0000

By Kurt A. Dasse ~ Dr. Michael E. DeBakey had a long and distinguished career exemplified by his surgical and technological innovations, institution-building, and medical

A Glimpse into the Life of Cornelia Mercer

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:00:11 +0000

Cornelia Mercer poses with four fellow nurses at the Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore, ca. 1909.

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Cornelia Mercer poses with four fellow nurses at the Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1909.

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Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010)

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:00:12 +0000

By Megan O’Hern ~ A new archival collection, the Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010) is now available at the National Library of Medicine. Though she was

Revealing Data: The 1918 Flu Never Topped War

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:00:18 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ Late February and early March marks the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu’s appearance in the United States. Although the 1918

A Conversation About Graphic Medicine

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:00:12 +0000

On March 1, 2018, at 2:00 PM ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine, NLM Director Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD

A Time for All Things: Michael E. DeBakey–The Tulane Years

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:00:50 +0000

By Craig Miller ~ Michael E DeBakey’s life and career are primarily associated in medical history and the public consciousness with his many years at

A Salute to Jerry Hecht

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:00:24 +0000

A nurse reads a thermometer.

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The Young at Heart

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:00:36 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ A gallery of WWI era postcards from the Zwerdling Postcard Collection.

An Anatomical Essay on the Movement of the Heart

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:00:19 +0000

By Jonathan Sawday ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. William Harvey’s De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus is

Revealing Data: Collecting Data about TB, ca. 1900

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:00:46 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ In the summer of 1901, Elizabeth Blauvelt, a Johns Hopkins medical student, prepared a summary of data (“Report on Data

The Evolution of Viral Networks: H1N1, Ebola, and Zika

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:00:08 +0000

On January 28-30, 2018, the National Library of Medicine will host “Viral Networks: A Workshop in the Digital Humanities and Medical History” funded by the

Back in Circulation

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Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/01/18/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/01/18/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:00:58 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=13599 By Erika Mills ~ In works of graphic medicine—an emerging field of medical literature—patients and their loved ones, caregivers, and health professionals tell stories about

The Falls of 1972: John B Calhoun and Urban Pessimism

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:00:37 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden. Adams, of the London School of Economics, and Ramsden, of the University of London, share

Palermo Book of Antidotes, 1670

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:00:46 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ The Library has recently acquired a very rare pharmacopeia. Nicolò Gervasi’s Antidotarium Panormitanum (Palermo book of antidotes) published in Palermo, Italy

A Book of Receipts of All Sorts (1693–1730s)

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:00:18 +0000

By Mary E. Fissell ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 1693 Elizabeth Strachey (ca. 1670–1722) wrote her name on

An Airtight Case: Custom Fabrication for a Medical History Treasure

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:30:19 +0000

Robert Clary is a machinist in the Mechanical Instrumentation Design and Fabrication Branch, part of the Division of Scientific Equipment and Instrumentation Services (DSEIS) in

HPCC Archived at NLM: Evolution and Assessment

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:00:45 +0000

By Sally Howe ~ This third and last blog post associated with announcing the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) archival collection has three topics. First

New Ideas at the NLM: Graphic Medicine

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:00:55 +0000

By Patricia Tuohy and Erika Mills ~ Graphic medicine—the use of comics or graphic narratives in health care discourse, is an emerging form of medical

Archiving HIV/AIDS on the Web

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:00:25 +0000

Christine Wenc describes her work to develop a web archive to provide historians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers with significant historical data for their present and future work.

Michael DeBakey and the Education of American Surgeons

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:05 +0000

By Justin Barr ~ Michael DeBakey came to Houston in 1948 as the new chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

Field Trip: NLM visits the National Agricultural Library

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:00:10 +0000

By Rebecca Warlow ~ As the holidays approach, you may be getting ready for a trip to see family and enjoy good food. Recently several

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Audience Engagement: Confronting Violence Visits the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:00:57 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jennifer Butler Keeton from Florence-Lauderdale Public Library in Florence, AL. Drawn from a presentation given as part of a bimonthly

Drawn To, Drawn From Experience

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:00:28 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright España Senior Research Fellow

The Hero in the Library: Colonel Paul Frederick Straub

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:00:04 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Lewis L. Barger III, who shares the story of Medal of Honor Recipient and Surgeon General’s Librarian Colonel Paul Frederick

HPCC Archived at NLM: Collaboration and Creation

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:00:21 +0000

By Sally Howe ~ In a blog post in September we announced the release of a finding aid for the HPPC archive. That post focused

Revealing Data: The Color of Their Eyes

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:00:52 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dan Bouk, PhD who shares his insights on nineteenth century government data collection and analysis as part of our Revealing

Bats in the Stacks

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:00:40 +0000

Conrad Gessner’s, Historiae Animalium, Vol. 3, 1555,

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Remembering & Witnessing: AIDS35 and the NLM Exhibition “Surviving and Thriving”

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:00:23 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Thomas Lawrence Long from University of Connecticut School of Nursing. Drawn from a presentation given as part of a bimonthly

Dr. John Money Discovered

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:00:55 +0000

By Elizabeth Newton ~ The vast collections of the National Library of Medicine encompass a startling variety of topics and materials. I recently spent two

Treatise of Artificial Waters

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:00:13 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ Herbs have been grown and used as medicine for thousands of years. Le Traicte des eaues artificielles les vertus & propriétés

Gassed!

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:00:35 +0000

By Susan Speaker ~ World War I is notable for the size of the armies involved, the huge number of casualties, and the vast amount

Revealing Data: London’s Deadly Visitation

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:00:06 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Kristin Heitman, PhD, who shares her insights on seventeenth century data collection and analysis as part of our Revealing Data

High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:00:20 +0000

By Sally Howe ~ People today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone about the infrastructure that enables

Lenox Hill Hospital’s Modernization Captured in Photographs

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:00:33 +0000

Ambulance entrance at Lenox Hill Hospital, ca. 1966, after renovations

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Ambulance entrance at Lenox Hill Hospital, ca. 1966, after renovations

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Hosting the Secretary of the Smithsonian

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ David J. Skorton, Secretary of the Smithsonian and a board-certified cardiologist, recently honored the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with

Preserving NIH science at the National Library of Medicine

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:00:27 +0000

By Holly Herro and Kristi Wright ~ Over the past ten years, conservation staff of the NLM’s History of Medicine Division have developed and published on

Tinkering with Profitability: DeBakey and the Affordable Blood Transfusion Instrument

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:00:17 +0000

By Heidi Morefield ~ Dr. Michael E. DeBakey was one of the most visible American surgeons of the late 20th century: he pioneered surgeries, published

We Await Your Owl: Marketing and Collaboration Around the Harry Potter’s World Exhibition

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:00:30 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Eva Sclippa, formerly at The Libraries at Alfred University in New York State and currently at the University of North

Total Eclipse of the Sun

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:00:16 +0000

Memories of the 2017 Solar eclipse.

“Our dear Laddie has been taken”: Edward Revere Osler killed in Flanders, August 1917

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:00:14 +0000

By Susan Speaker ~ In an earlier post, I highlighted the wartime experiences of Sir William Osler, who is often called “the father of American

Edgar Ulmer, The NTA, and the Power of Sermonic Medicine

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0000

http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700133A

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Reflections on History and Harry Potter

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:00:57 +0000

Photo by E.D.D.W., NLM

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A Public Library Electrifies the Community: Publicizing the NLM Exhibition “Frankenstein”

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:00:17 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Nicole Hughes and Donna Smith, from the Palm Beach County Library System, in Florida. Drawn from a presentation given as

First in Human: The Trials of Building 10

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:00:28 +0000

By Rebecca Warlow ~ A new documentary, First in Human: The Trials of Building 10, produced by McGee Media for the Discovery Channel, explores the

“RUSS EXPLODE H-BOMB”: Let’s Face It, 1954

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:00:44 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ Three-inch type and spinning fast, the headline hurtles toward the viewer. When it comes to a stop, you know: the Soviets

A New History of NLM: The Library in the 21st Century

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:00:24 +0000

National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, (left) swears in Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, as the 19th director of the Library on September 12, 2016. Brennan’s sister Jean Flatley McGuire is holding a copy of the US Constitution. Brennan was the first woman and first nurse appointed as director. Hundreds witnessed the historic occasion, a “great day for the National Institutes of Health,” as Collins stated. (Courtesy of Ernie Branson and the National Institutes of Health.)

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A New History of NLM: Celebrating 150 Years of Public Service and Looking to the Future

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:00:57 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This is the eighth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

A New History of NLM: Information Age

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:00:43 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the seventh post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

A New History of NLM: A New Name and A New Home

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:00:28 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the sixth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US

A New History of NLM: World War II and Relocation

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:00:07 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ This is the fifth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

A New History of NLM: The “Old Red Brick”

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:00:44 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ This is the fourth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine in

A New History of NLM: Civil War and the Era of John Shaw Billings

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:00:52 +0000

In this letter to a potential donor, written on May 13, 1872, John Shaw Billings explains his ambition for the library: “I am trying to form a great national Medical Library here—a work of great labor—which I am satisfied can only be done under government auspices. We have now about 18,000 vols—on our shelves in the fireproof building of the Army Med Museum. Catalogued and open to the profession—and it is now on a proper basis as the Medical Section of the National or Congressional Library. I want to make it as complete as it can be made and the great difficulty of course is to get old pamphlets—and to complete our files of journals.”

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A New History of NLM: Origins and Early Years

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:00:34 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ This is the second post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

Introducing A New Illustrated History of NLM

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:00:13 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Ken Koyle ~ This is the first post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National

“Fire-workes” for the 17th Century

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:00:12 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ The 4th of July is a day to celebrate America’s independence, an occasion often marked with a wide range of

Harry Potter’s World and the NLM Herb Garden

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:00:55 +0000

Courtesy Claudia Quiros and Fran Sandridge

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Monsters in the Stacks: How Harry Potter Came to NLM

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:00:13 +0000

Stephen J. Greenberg, PhD, will speak on June 29, 2017 at 2:00 in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine on “Monsters

Pop Culture Meets NLM Historical Collections: Harry Potter’s World

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:00:41 +0000

By Nicole Orphanides ~ In 1997, 10-year-old Harry Potter waved his wand for the first time and filled the minds of readers with magic and

A Look into the Pensieve: Reflections on Harry Potter at Twenty Years

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:00:08 +0000

Elizabeth Bland, M.A., will speak on June 27, 2017 at 2:00 in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on “A

Circulating Now Celebrates 20 Years of Harry Potter!

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:00:51 +0000

By Erika Mills ~ J. K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the debut novel in the seven-book series that became a pop

Escape to Iron Mountain

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:00:24 +0000

By Sarah Eilers and James Labosier ~ At the National Library of Medicine (NLM), what you see is not all you can get. The library

Malaria Pinup Calendars, 1945

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:00:25 +0000

By Mike “Sport” Murphy Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. To young American GIs waging World War II in the

The U.S. Army Medical Department begins Operations in France

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:00:56 +0000

War Diary
When I returned to my home, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, on the night of May 17th, 1917, I found an order there directing me to proceed at

once to Washington and report to the Adjutant General of the Army. I had been absent from home for four days with a Board inspecting

camp sites for the conscript army. My order had been received on the 15th. I spent the 18th day of May turning over the hospital to

Metcalf, disposed of “Betsy” and “Jack”, packed my belongings and left Ft. Sam Houston for Washington on the morning of May 19th. The

journey to Washington was without incident and we arrived there Monday, May 21st at 11:00 o’clock. Birmingham, Kean, and Williamson

met me at the station and took me to the club for lunch where I saw a great number of old friends. Birmingham had telegraphed me at

San Antonio that I was to come prepared for field sericce abroad, so with the information that I had previously had, I had a very good

idea as to where I was to go. I was greatly surprised to find at the club that everybody knew my assignment.

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Revealing Data: Rain, Epidemics, and Life on the Docks in 1918

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:00:12 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officers stationed in the San Francisco Bay complained about the rain and deer eating the

What is That?!? Heart Surgery on Film

Tue, 30 May 2017 15:00:31 +0000

Rachel James, a recent library school graduate, developed finding aids for historical audiovisual collections at NLM through the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program Fellowship.

U.S. Army Base Hospital #4 Receives Royal Greeting in England

Wed, 24 May 2017 15:00:29 +0000

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Revealing Data: Explorations of Data in Collections

Wed, 17 May 2017 15:00:01 +0000

By Christie Moffatt ~ We hear about data every day. In historical medical collections, data abounds, both quantitative and qualitative. In its format, scope, and

U.S. Army Base Hospital #4 Embarks for Europe

Tue, 09 May 2017 15:00:14 +0000

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No. 9 GENERAL HOSPITAL B. E. F.
HEADQUARTERS BASE HOSPITAL No. 4, U. S. A.
From the etching by Caroline H. Armington, Paris

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Anti-Germ Warfare Campaign Posters, ca. 1952

Thu, 04 May 2017 17:30:30 +0000

A Patriotic Health Movement was launched throughout China: the Communist Party mobilized the masses to eliminate pests to prevent disease and contribute to the war effort.

A New Look for Circulating Now

Mon, 01 May 2017 13:30:08 +0000

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Illuminating St. Elizabeths at the National Building Museum

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:00:49 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Sarah A. Leavitt, Curator at the National Building Museum. Her latest exhibition Architecture of

Digitizing Material Culture: Handwritten Recipe Books, 1600–1900

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:00:34 +0000

By John Rees Cookbooks and recipe books have always been popular with students of history and family genealogy. They are tangible artifacts of past lives

World War I Centenary Forum: A Call to Service

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Ginny A. Roth, will speak at 2 PM ET today, April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “A Call to Service: Women Represented

World War I Centenary Forum: The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:00:04 +0000

Stephen J. Greenberg, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album”

World War I Centenary Forum: Masking Devastation

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:00:36 +0000

Sarah Eilers will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “Masking Devastation: Inside Anna Ladd’s Paris Studio”

World War I Centenary Forum: Stories from the NLM Collections

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:00:54 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Anne Rothfeld One hundred years ago, on April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson spoke to the US Congress requesting

LSD: Insight or Insanity?, 1968

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:00:07 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Erika Dyck, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Today, Dr.

Faye Glenn Abdellah: Nurse, Officer, Educator

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:00:06 +0000

By Douglas Atkins In honor of Women’s History Month, Circulating Now pays tribute today, to Rear Admiral and Nurse, Dr. Faye Glenn Abdellah, Ed.D., LL.D.,

Art on the Edge

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:00:51 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle, Ginny A. Roth, and Krista Stracka Hedley Vicars was not a war hero. He was not a renowned strategist or tactician;

Michael E. DeBakey and the National Library of Medicine

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:00:10 +0000

Honorary consultants to the Army Medical Library

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A Piece of Pi: Historical Perspectives from NLM

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Pi Day is the internationally-recognized event when various disciplines come together to celebrate the significance of the Greek letter π.

“Intentional Impact:” The Legacy of Michael E. DeBakey

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:00:11 +0000

Shelley McKellar, PhD and George P. Noon, MD, will give the inaugural Michael E. DeBakey Lecture on March 21, 2017 at 2:00 ET in the

Sitting by the Fireside: African American History, Women’s History, and Food

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:00:28 +0000

Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America recognizes the ways in which meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes.

Protection or Poison? The Fluoride Debate in Film

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:00:51 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Fluoride, a pedestrian topic? You may not think of it as an agitating one, or a source of community division and debate.

The Power of Aggregation

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:00:58 +0000

By John Rees We all appreciate the convenience of the modern shopping experience. Who doesn’t love visiting a local farmer’s market on a Saturday morning

The Lay of the Lonesome Lung, 1881

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:00:18 +0000

By Krista Stracka ~ A humorous poem about a man named Bung on his quest to save his one working lung. Bung gets the girl and both lungs are restored with Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry!

Collaboration and Curation

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:00:39 +0000

Loren Miller, PhD, will speak at 2 PM on February 14, 2017 at the NIH Natcher Conference Center on “Collaboration and Curation: Creating the Exhibition

Color Our Collections – National Library of Medicine

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:00:49 +0000

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) hosts an annual week-long, international, social media event called, #ColorOurCollections.

Cough Killer’s Secret Ingredient

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:00:28 +0000

Patent medicines were in fact rarely patented. In the 19th century, the term came to refer to the unregulated commercial remedies that were available to consumers without a prescription.

Behind the Scenes on Mercy Street

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:00:50 +0000

Mansion House hospital as it appeared during the American Civil War. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Mercy Street’s Mansion House Hospital

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:00:15 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg Mercy Street, the popular PBS series now entering its second season, tells the complicated story of a U.S. Army hospital during

Molecular Biology Behind the Blackboard

Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:00:17 +0000

By Paul Theerman ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The photograph is dramatic, more dramatic in its own way

The Road to Health and Happiness, 1937

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:00:47 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ The road to abundant life is not hard to follow and it is not expensive. So we are told in the

Sup on a Syllabub

Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:00:17 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld Want an intriguing dessert from the past to satisfy your present day holiday palate? Serve the syllabub: a cream-based treat, mixed with

Mr. Kris Kringle, 1893

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:00:09 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ It is Christmas eve, a Christmas with no presents and the loss of the family home, until a surprising visitor appears...

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:00:01 +0000

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

The Cry for Help, 1962

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:00:31 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Fifty years ago, renowned American documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney made a series of short training films tackling a tough topic: how

Celebrating the Nobel Prize

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:00:12 +0000

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A Nurse’s Scrapbook from The Great War

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:57 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg Anniversaries can be funny things. As we observe (“celebrate” somehow seems wrong in the context) the 100th anniversary of the First

Trade Cards in The Fight Against AIDS

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:00:45 +0000

Drawing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Drawing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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A Book Unfinished: Paracelsus in Hand-Press Sheets

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:00:34 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Books today, as physical objects, have reached a very odd place in our consciousness. Readers are increasingly offered books (or

Remembering Melvin R. Laird, 1922–2016

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:00:01 +0000

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Congressman Laird pauses to chat with Dr. James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in front of the NIH Administration Building.

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Scrub Away the Thanksgiving Troublemakers

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:00:03 +0000

In the 1950s, the CDC produced a food-handling film series demonstrating what—and what not—to do when storing and preparing food.

The Birth of the Physician Assistant

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:00:20 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Loren Miller, PhD. Dr. Miller is a curatorial assistant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Physician Veterans of WWI

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:00:00 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ Doctors are vital to the U.S. military branches, and despite the volumes of historical research on their contributions to military medicine,

$150 for Medical Books 180 Years Later

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:00:43 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle Those who are familiar with the history of the National Library of Medicine know that the Library traces its roots to

Palmistry: The Future in the Palm of Your Hand

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:00:41 +0000

By Atalanta Grant-Suttie Some people think palmistry (or chiromancy as it is sometimes known) is hocus pocus and that it is all nonsense. How can

Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:00:34 +0000

Psyche Williams-Forson, PhD, will speak at 2 PM on November 3 at the National Library of Medicine on “Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in

Mark M. Ravitch: A Surgeon’s Surgeon

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:00:04 +0000

By James Labosier and John Rees A new archival collection, The Mark M. Ravitch Papers, 1932-1989, is now available at the National Library of Medicine

The Punitive Expedition, 1916

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:00:01 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg The political situation in Mexico, always a matter of great concern to the United States, was particularly volatile in late 1915

Truly Translational: Louis Sokoloff and PET Brain Imaging

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:30:34 +0000

By Susan Speaker Twenty-first century medical practitioners have many ways of making images of the inside of the body, including x-rays, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging

Marshfield Clinic’s 100-Year Contribution to the Future of Medicine

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:00:37 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Rachel V. Stankowski, PhD, scientific research writer at the Marshfield Clinic, located in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Dr. Stankowski offers a view

Fresh Air and the White Plague

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:00:26 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Cynthia Connolly. Dr. Connolly is Associate Professor of Nursing at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History

Celebrating American Archives Month

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:00:44 +0000

By Rebecca C. Warlow ~ This post was originally published in 2016. Here at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and at archives across

Autumn Highlights

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:00:30 +0000

Hand-colored woodcut of a tree from “Ortus Sanitatis,” bearing leaves in a golden color often seen on trees during autumn.

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A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:00:07 +0000

Listen to Louis W. Sullivan, MD, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1989–1993, speak on "A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System.”

Man to Man, 1954

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:00:40 +0000

By Sarah Owen and Sarah Eilers “Sanctuary, refuge, hospital….The doors are locked, but it’s not a prison that we enter….This is his job, his living.

National Library of Medicine visits a community near you!

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:00:04 +0000

By Patricia Tuohy The National Library of Medicine partners with hundreds of libraries and cultural institutions across the country and around the world in an

Big Data: Collaboration, Opportunity, and Outcomes

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:00:35 +0000

Brett Bobley will speak at 2 PM ET on September 20th at the National Library of Medicine on “International Big Data Research in the Humanities & Social

Color Me Healthy

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:00:56 +0000

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The Latest Greatest Coloring Book About Lice

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America’s National Parks: Preserved for Public Health

Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:45:15 +0000

For many people today, the outdoors’ tranquility and expansiveness serves as a tonic to calm nerves and revive energy.

Olympians Say “No” to Substance Abuse

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:00:28 +0000

by Erika Mills Every two years, the Olympics Games make heroes out of the world’s athletic elite. Champions win worldwide fame, admiration, and influence along

Power to the People: Washington Gives Back

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:00:03 +0000

By Jennifer Brier, Anne Armstrong, Julie Kutruff, Erin Carlson Mast, Patricia Tuohy Creative individuals and institutions in Washington, DC have moved beyond what often comes

Hosting the Representative of Flanders

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:00:49 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick The richness of Flemish history came alive here at the NLM recently, when we were honored to host a visit of

Why me?

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:00:13 +0000

Mosquito bites can be serious, some of the insects are vectors for diseases.

The Wonder in Us, 1921

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:00:24 +0000

By Michael Sappol ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In the early decades of the twentieth century a modernizing

A New Herbal in the Collection

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:00:09 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser The Library has recently acquired a rare work on medicinal plants by Leonhart Fuchs: Le Benefice commun de tout le monde, ou

Leprosy in India, ca. 1931

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:00:22 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Magnus Vollset. Dr. Vollset is a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway, and holds a PhD in medical history

Three Times Around and Still Circulating

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:00:02 +0000

Three years ago this week, we launched Circulating Now to explore, share, and celebrate the value of the NLM’s world-renowned historical collections and programs for

Web Collecting During the Zika Outbreak

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:00:41 +0000

By Christie Moffatt ~ This week is “Mosquito Control Awareness week,” and agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services are taking this opportunity

Apply Now! A New History Fellowship at NLM

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 15:00:19 +0000

Apply now for the Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine.

The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:00:00 +0000

Bruce Fye will give the annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture on June 22, 2016 at the National Library of Medicine on “The Origins and Evolution

The Dandelion

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:00:14 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ The dandelion—a quaint, yellow-flowered, perennial herb loathed by homeowners and gardeners—was once praised for its many useful properties: its roots for

Images from the History of Medicine is Moving to NLM Digital Collections

Tue, 31 May 2016 18:30:56 +0000

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Memories of the Civil War

Fri, 27 May 2016 15:00:37 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Although the American Civil War was not the first armed conflict to be extensively photographed (that dubious distinction belongs to

Vulnerability to Covert Attack, 1959

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:00:36 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Vulnerability to Covert Attack. The film title seems as relevant today as it must have when it was made, in the Cold

June E. Osborn: At the Center of National Policy on AIDS

Thu, 19 May 2016 15:00:08 +0000

By Gregory Pike and John Rees ~ A new archival collection, June E. Osborn Papers, 1954–2001, is now available at the National Library of Medicine

A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations

Thu, 12 May 2016 15:00:51 +0000

By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library

“Beyond Chicken Soup” with a Taste of NLM

Tue, 10 May 2016 15:00:53 +0000

By Karen Falk and Jeffrey S. Reznick During the past few years, the NLM History of Medicine Division has loaned items from its collections for

A Mughal Era Manuscript Curiously Illustrated

Thu, 05 May 2016 15:00:48 +0000

By Homira Pashai The National Library of Medicine is the home of many precious manuscripts belonging to the Indian Mughal era (16th–18th century). Among these

118 and Counting: Happy Birthday MLA!

Mon, 02 May 2016 15:00:56 +0000

By Betsy L. Humphreys ~ On May 2, 1898, a small group of U.S. and Canadian physicians and librarians met in the offices of the

Grateful Med: Personal Computing and User-Friendly Design

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:00:14 +0000

GRATEFUL MED
A Search Assistant for MEDLINE and other NLM Files.
This program allows you to select a database then helps you formulate a search for the MEDLARS system of the National Library of Medicine

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Setting Our Sights on a World without Malaria

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:00:39 +0000

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Images from the History of Medicine in Open-i

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:00:46 +0000

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Helen Coley Nauts: Advocate for Immunotherapy

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:00:59 +0000

By Douglas Atkins Helen Coley Nauts (1907–2001) was the daughter of a prominent physician and surgeon whom many consider to be the Father of Immunotherapy

Some of the Most Beautiful Herbals

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:00:29 +0000

By Michael North This post is the sixth in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are

Images and Texts in Medical History—Keynote

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:00:41 +0000

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Images and Texts in Medical History—Jeremy Greene

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:00:06 +0000

On April 11-13, 2016, the National Library of Medicine will host the workshop “Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and

Images and Texts in Medical History—Benjamin Schmidt

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:00:13 +0000

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Images and Texts in Medical History—Miriam Posner

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:00:20 +0000

On April 11-13, 2016, the National Library of Medicine will host the workshop “Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and

Images and Texts in Medical History

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:00:55 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick Next week, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the workshop Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to

MEDLARS II: MEDLINE & Instantaneous Search

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:30:58 +0000

By Nicole Contaxis MEDLARS I, as described in my previous post, was a great step forward in providing access to bibliographic data and facilitating biomedical

Colonialism and the Plant Hunters

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:00:13 +0000

By Michael North This post is the fifth in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are

Erdheim’s Autopsy: A Silent Film Fragment

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:00:09 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Tatjana Buklijas, Birgit Nemec, and Katrin Pilz whose recent essay “Erdheim’s Autopsy: Dissection, motion pictures, and the politics of health

Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:30:35 +0000

Christie Moffatt spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.” Ms. Moffatt is an Archivist &

Change is Possible

Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:00:20 +0000

This post is the last in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from Dr. Catherine Jacquet.

GenBank & The Early Years of “Big Data”

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:00:48 +0000

In cooperation with our colleagues at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), the NLM’s History of Medicine Division recently

Rare Disease Day 2016

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:00:51 +0000

Artist May Lesser drawing of a resident examining a child patient with rheumatoid arthritis.

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MEDLARS I & GRACE: The Early Mainframe Experience

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:00:52 +0000

By Nicole Contaxis Providing access to bibliographic data has long been a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) mission. Through a variety of

PubMed Central: Visualizing a Historical Treasure Trove

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:00:33 +0000

By Tyler Nix, Kathryn Funk, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Erin Zellers A wealth of medical history awaits your exploration in the National Library of Medicine’s

In the Belly of the Beast: A History of Alternative Medicine at the NIH

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:30:19 +0000

Dr. Eric Boyle spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “In the Belly of the Beast: A History of Alternative Medicine at the

Ceci Doak discusses NLM’s acquisition of the Doaks’ papers

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:00:09 +0000

By Rob Logan The National Library of Medicine recently acquired the papers of Cecilia and Leonard Doak, pioneers in the field of health literacy. In

A Decade of Phenomenal Progress in Heart Surgery

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:00:41 +0000

By Susan Speaker In March of 1959, Dr. Michael DeBakey testified in the U.S. House of Representatives about the phenomenal progress made against cardiovascular disease

Emotions of Everyday Living

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:00:42 +0000

By Sarah Eilers “Daddy, you kicked George!” Paul, a small boy who’s been playing happily in the bath with his pet turtle, George, looks up

Early Journals: What’s in a Name?

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:00:24 +0000

By Atalanta Grant-Suttie The journal is so much a part of the current apparatus of scholarly communication that one never really thinks where and how

Nurses Organize

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:00:38 +0000

Related to OB10998

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The Wonders of Creation

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:00:10 +0000

By Homira Pashai ~ The National Library of Medicine holds an important collection of over 200 manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century in Arabic,

The Medical Civil Rights Movement and Access to Health Care

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:00:29 +0000

Beatrix Hoffman is guest curator of the NLM exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform.

The English Disease: The Health Education Film as Nazi Propaganda

Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:00:09 +0000

A scene from the beginning of the film shows an unhappy procession of people of different ages and sexes who suffer from rickets. Behind them looms a map of the British Isles. As the scene goes on, the figures show more and more deformity.

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Research Reborn: Dioscorides and Mattioli

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:00:40 +0000

By Michael North This post is the fourth in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are

2015 is Almost History

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:00:43 +0000

Goodbye 2015, it’s been quite a year! During the past twelve months on Circulating Now, we heard from all kinds of people who work with

“What a mess! And we are not half through”: Dr. Osler on England’s home front in World War I

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:00:54 +0000

By Susan Speaker This is one of a series of occasional posts highlighting collections that document medical activities during the Great War, which lasted from

Dr. Mitchell’s Christmas Poem, 1913

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:00:53 +0000

By Laura Hartman ~ For his 1913 Christmas greeting card, eminent 19th century neurologist and best-selling novelist Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) penned a poem entitled

Sip on a Shrub

Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:00:00 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ Looking for a festive drink with historical origins? Prepare a pitcher of shrub to serve when guests arrive.

U.S. Women’s Movements and Health Care Reform

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:00:18 +0000

Feminist activists and women’s organizations have been involved in health care reform debates in the U.S. for over a century.

Nurses on the Cutting Edge

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:00:56 +0000

This post is the third in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:00:45 +0000

By Rebecca C. Warlow Calling all National History Day students to explore scientific research, encounter medical discoveries, and witness the exchange of ideas among some

A Portrait of the Medical World of 1911

Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:00:40 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg It is, perhaps, a bit hard for the modern reader to imagine that a coffee table book consisting solely of portraits

“Wrapped in flesh”: Views of the body in East Asian Medicine

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:00:55 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Yi-Li Wu. Dr. Wu is a Center Associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan,

Challenging an Epidemic of Misinformation

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:00:40 +0000

By Christie Moffatt The focus of this year’s World AIDS Day is on challenging myths and focusing on facts about HIV, rethinking stereotypes and being

Medicine and Wife Abuse in the 1970s

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:00:53 +0000

This post is the second in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

An Early Look at the Turkey

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:00:24 +0000

Turkeys were one of many animals and plants the Europeans encountered in the New World beginning in 1492. In 1555, Conrad Gessner described the Turkey in the third volume of his famous zoological work, Historiae Animalium.

Smoking and You

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:00:31 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Today is the 40th annual Great American Smokeout. The first was held in California in 1976, and the American Cancer Society took

John E. Fogarty: From Providence to Profiles

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:00:36 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Russell M. Franks, Librarian for Special and Archival Collections at the Phillips Memorial Library, Providence College, who relates some of

A Pharmacist’s Mate First Class

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:00:53 +0000

Highlighting the Charles Henry Stevens Papers, 1945–1946. Stevens, from Philadelphia, was a Pharmacist's Mate First Class in WWII and a member of the American Veterans for Equal Rights.

Publications and the Army Medical Library around World War I

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:30:50 +0000

Dr. Sanders Marble spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Gathering and Spreading Knowledge: Publications and the Army Medical Library around World War

For All the People

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:00:05 +0000

Dr. Beatrix Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s newest exhibition, For All the People: A Century of

A Portal of Death

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:00:39 +0000

As the nights get longer and leaves turn and fall, many will spend a dark evening communing with frightening images. This 'portal of death' is the frontispiece from Bernardino Genga's beautiful Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disengno..., 1691.

In Search of Sol Spiegelman

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:00:50 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Susie Fisher who brings us this post highlighting her work with NLM’s archival collections for American Archives Month. Dr. Fisher

The Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:00:30 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee In the two decades after World War II, America’s medical libraries were in very poor shape. Funding for medical research and education

AMA Deceased Physicians Masterfile 1906–1969

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:00:29 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld To celebrate American Archives Month Circulating Now is highlighting NLM’s archival collections with several posts this October. From the very beginning of

Domestic Violence in the 1970s

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:00:57 +0000

This post is the first in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, and Assistant Professor

Dr. Schwartz’s Stamp Collection

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:00:14 +0000

Stamp page from the collection of Adolf Schwartz

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Radam’s Microbe Killer: Advertising Cures for Tuberculosis

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:00:35 +0000

In nineteenth century America, tuberculosis accounted for nearly one out of every ten deaths. Known most commonly as “consumption,” this disease was dreaded across society

Gathering and Interpreting Data about Tuberculosis in the U.S.

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:00:03 +0000

In nineteenth century America, tuberculosis accounted for nearly one out of every ten deaths. Known most commonly as “consumption,” this disease was dreaded across society

Medical Research about Tuberculosis: Virginia Perspectives on Koch’s Cure

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:00:40 +0000

In nineteenth century America, tuberculosis accounted for nearly one out of every ten deaths. Known most commonly as “consumption,” this disease was dreaded across society

John E. Fogarty—A Family Perspective

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:00:15 +0000

NLM’s newest Profiles in Science site features Congressman John Edward Fogarty (1913–1967), who was called “Mr. Public Health” for his dedication to increased federal funding

A German Botanical Renaissance

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:00:38 +0000

By Michael North ~ This post is the third in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which

“Mr. Public Health”—John E. Fogarty, Medical Research, and Health Care

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:24:13 +0000

By Susan Speaker In January of 1941, a twenty-seven year old Rhode Island bricklayer named John Edward Fogarty began his first term in the U.S.

Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:00:32 +0000

By Tal Golan ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Dr. William J. Morton (1845–1920) hurried his book The X-Ray: Or,

From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:35:40 +0000

Dr. Catherine Jacquet spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis: Nursing and the Intervention into Domestic

The Mysterious Case of Petr Anokhin, Soviet Scientific Cinema, and the Conjoined Twins

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:00:00 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Nikolai Krementsov. Dr. Krementsov is Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the

Wonderful Works on Horses

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:00:18 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser The Library has acquired two wonderful works on horses. The first, Il Cavallo da maneggio… is by Giovanni Battista di Galiberto, a

Field Trip: Visiting our Sister (Institution)

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:00:38 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle and Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ Over the summer, staff of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) took a little time out

NLM’s Unique Early English Books Now Online

Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:00:36 +0000

By Krista Stracka Earlier this summer, the National Library of Medicine announced the release of Unique English Imprints, pre-1800, a new collection available now through

Medical Identity and Ethnicity in 19th-Century New Orleans

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:00:23 +0000

Dr. Amy Wiese Forbes spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Medical Identity and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.” Dr. Forbes is Associate

Emmy Immunity

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:00:37 +0000

By Sarah Eilers It’s August. Students are facing summer’s end and the start of another school year. Parents are scrambling to arrange physical and dental

The Human Body in Pictures—Jacob Sarnoff

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:00:49 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Miriam Posner. Dr. Posner is the Digital Humanities program coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the

Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:00:21 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee Joycelyn Elders was the first African-American to be appointed Surgeon-General of the United States. A brilliant, talented, and powerful woman, she had

The First Calamity of the Nuclear Age

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:56:06 +0000

The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this report issued in November 1945, Japanese army doctors labored to describe what they had seen and done.

Medicare and Medicaid at 50

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:20:22 +0000

By Lisa Lang ~ For most Americans today, Medicare and Medicaid have been in existence all their lives. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, conducted

The Five Commandments

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:00:25 +0000

By Michael Rhode, with Michael Sappol Essay originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Watch the films now on NLM’s Medicine

Medical Advertisements after FDA

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:00:49 +0000

By Kelsey Conway In the summer of 2014 I had the wonderful opportunity to intern with the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division.

AFS and American Volunteerism in World War I

Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:00:30 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Nicole J. Milano, Head Archivist and Historical Publications Editor at the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural

Medieval Herbals in Movable Type

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:30:20 +0000

By Michael North This post is the second in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are

July Blooms

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:00:35 +0000

A botanical illustration of the flower, fruit, and seed of the Larkspur, the July birth flower, and one of the plants featured in Elizabeth Blackwell's 1737 book A Curious Herbal.

The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:00:46 +0000

By James Labosier, Ginny Roth, and John Rees A new archival collection, the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital Archives, 1853–2003 is now available at the

The Inside Story

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:00:54 +0000

By Michael Sappol Inside Out, Pixar’s latest hit animated feature, is mainly set on the inside of a young girl’s brain. Riley, an eleven-year-old, is

Caring for Foreign Bodies

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:30:16 +0000

Alan Kraut gave the annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture today at the National Library of Medicine on “Caring for Foreign Bodies: Healthcare’s Role in

Oil on Paper: A Collaborative Conservation Challenge

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:00:04 +0000

By Kristi Wright and Holly Herro Sometimes conservators encounter problems resulting from well-intended but ultimately flawed repair techniques. One example of this is the formerly

Where to Find History of Medicine Collections

Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:00:43 +0000

By Crystal Smith Among the National Library of Medicine’s most versatile online historical resources is an interactive tool for locating history of medicine collections worldwide:

Travels of a World War I Nurse

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:00:31 +0000

By Dan Caughey Photograph postcards, known as “real photo” postcards, were popular mementos to send to loved ones before and during World War I. There

Physiological Ads for the Modern Self

Thu, 28 May 2015 19:55:31 +0000

By Michael Sappol Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a German-Jewish physician-author, was the first great exponent of the conceptual medical illustration—illustrations that go beyond the representation of

When Time is Crucial—The Origin of EMS

Thu, 21 May 2015 15:00:51 +0000

The EMS system that we take for granted didn’t exist before the 1970s. If you were badly injured in a traffic accident, for example, there was no 911 system.

The Earliest Herbals

Thu, 14 May 2015 15:00:15 +0000

By Michael North This post is the first in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are

Ready… Set… CLICK!

Tue, 12 May 2015 15:00:08 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth After a long winter, Spring is greeted with much anticipation. There is no better time to dust off those cameras, head

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Rees

Fri, 08 May 2015 15:00:47 +0000

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Swann

Thu, 07 May 2015 20:30:53 +0000

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—Suzanne Junod

Wed, 06 May 2015 15:30:31 +0000

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine will host a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From

NASA Collection Received

Tue, 05 May 2015 15:00:53 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to fly into space, riding the Mercury capsule on a

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015

Fri, 01 May 2015 15:00:38 +0000

By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.,

Hosting the Chairman of NEH

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:24:36 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently honored the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with

The Lincoln Autopsy

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:00:35 +0000

By Jill L. Newmark and Roxanne Beatty This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

Lincoln’s Last Hours

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:21:46 +0000

By Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150 years ago on

A Day that Changed American History

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:00:35 +0000

By Roxanne Beatty and Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:00:59 +0000

By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918–2000, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in

Cancer: Researching the History of a Malady

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:00:53 +0000

By Rebecca C. Warlow Almost every individual has been touched by a cancer diagnosis, whether as a patient, or as a family member or friend

Ebola at One Year

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:00:46 +0000

By Elizabeth Mullen and Christie Moffatt This week marks one year since the World Health Organization announced that the deadly outbreak in Guinea was Ebola.

World Tuberculosis Day

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:00:04 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth On March 24, 1882, a medical milestone was achieved. Dr. Robert Koch reported his discovery that Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the cause of

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—David Serlin

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:00:50 +0000

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at

A Tribute to Nirenberg—George Thoma

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:00:43 +0000

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—Myrna Weissman

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:00:29 +0000

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—Frank Portugal

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:30:23 +0000

Today, March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:00:46 +0000

Tomorrow, March 17, 2015 the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the first of a “triplet” of events at the National Institutes of Health

Hosting the Ambassador of Belgium

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:00:54 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick Belgium—founding member of the European Union and a country whose heritage is rich in so many ways, and especially in the

Measles

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:14 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes Dr. Morens, Senior Advisor to the Director of the NIAID and an epidemiologist with a long-standing interest in emerging infectious diseases, virology, tropical medicine, and medical history.

Donald Lindberg: A Leadership Legacy for the Future

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:59:36 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick At the end of this month, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of the National Library of Medicine since 1984, will retire

“Come with me, into the visual instruction room”

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:00:34 +0000

By Michael Sappol A dentist invites a young boy: “Come with me, into the visual instruction room.” And with this, Ask Your Dentist, a silent

Winter Wounds, Paper Dressing

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:00:02 +0000

By Sarah Eilers ~ It’s a black and white film, but it’s the white that overwhelms. A carpet of snow beneath Nordic pines, white uniforms

The History of Race in Randomized Controlled Trials

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:30:09 +0000

An interview with Laura E. Bothwell on her lecture and her work related to the history and ethics of biomedical research systems.

A Valentine Message

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:30:59 +0000

This valentine is postmarked 1913, the year the newly founded Hall Brothers (now Hallmark) first offered Valentines for sale.

Global Healing

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:00:26 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ “I have always been drawn to people and have sought to see them compassionately and with understanding through the lens

Aldus Manutius and Early Medical Humanist Publishing

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:00:16 +0000

Detail of The Hippocratic Oath, from Hippocrates Omnia Opera (Complete Works), Venice: In aedibus Aldi, & Andreae Asulani soceri, mense Maii 1526. http://locatorplus.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=2251059R&Search_Code=0359&CNT=25&SID=1

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Detail of The Hippocratic Oath, from Hippocrates Omnia Opera (Complete Works), 1526

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The Apotheosis of the Dissected Plate

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:30:56 +0000

Michael Sappol spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “The Apotheosis of the Dissected Plate: Spectacles of Layering and Transparency in 19th- and

Deciphering the Genetic Code: A 50 Year Anniversary

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:30:56 +0000

By Christie Moffatt Fifty years ago, on January 18, 1965, Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg (1927–2010) completed his first summary of the genetic code—one of the

Influenza Precautions, Then and Now

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:00:10 +0000

Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech offers a comparison of health recommendations during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 and today.

Early Studies of Animals

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:00:19 +0000

By Michael J. North Some of the oldest materials in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine are on the subject of natural

John F. Fulton’s Aeromedical Research

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:00:43 +0000

By James Labosier A new archival collection, The John F. Fulton papers (1929–1953), is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in World

Happy Birthday, Andreas Vesalius!

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:00:18 +0000

By Michael J. North Today we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (December 31, 1514–October 15, 1564), one of the most

Christmas in Wartime: a formal dinner in cap and apron

Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:00:44 +0000

December 27, 1914: "Yesterday—Boxing Day—there was a Christmas dinner in the evening for the whole nursing staff in the marble hall—seventy-one of us."

Christmas in Wartime: You should have heard the shouts

Thu, 25 Dec 2014 16:00:20 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with

Season’s Greetings

Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:00:40 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ In 1907 Emily Bissell introduced the colorful and festive Christmas Seals to the United States.

Christmas in Wartime: gauze stockings for 200 men

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:00:50 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with

Christmas in Wartime: Mary Dexter and the Great War

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:00:09 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer

Thomas C. Chalmers: Clinical Research Pragmatist

Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:00:15 +0000

Dr. Chalmers, associate director of NIH, attends a gathering at NIH, 1973.
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NLM’s Unique De Fabrica

Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:00:29 +0000

By Michael J. North and Laura Hartman ~ This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best

Dangers to Health in Our Own Home, 1877

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:00:01 +0000

Dangers to Health in Our Own Home (1877). This first edition is just a pamphlet. No figures of human beings appear in the illustrations.

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Partners in Illuminating Science

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:00:16 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Aline Lin, co-founder and principal of Link Studio, an interactive design and medical illustration company. Aline worked with the Exhibition

Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition

Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:30:33 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Brier spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition.” Dr. Brier is director of

Thanksgiving DeLuxe, 1918

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:00:56 +0000

The holiday season often brought out the very best in the spirit and practice of WWI military hospital magazines..."Many were heard to remark: “Well, after this I can safely say I’ve eaten one square meal in the army.”"

First editions of Darwin’s Origin of Species

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:00:09 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species by means of natural selection… was published in London. From the

What’s Your Quit Day?

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:00:36 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth For nearly 42 million Americans, smoking is a hard habit to break. The American Cancer Society (ACS) calls tobacco use the

Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:15:05 +0000

Of the information about Ebola on the web, what will remain one, ten, or even fifty years from now? This content is at high risk for loss.

Mongolian Manuscript comes to Turning the Pages

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:00:09 +0000

By Michael J. North The latest addition to the Turning the Pages collection is a Mongolian manuscript entitled, Manual of Astrology and Divination. This colorfully

The Sacred Work: Galsworthy’s Advocacy for WWI Veterans

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:00:43 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This Veterans Day is the first to occur during the four-year centenary anniversary of World War I. As media outlets

Antibiotic Pasts and Futures

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:30:53 +0000

Harry F. Dowling Papers (1908–1979), Box 1, folder 1, MS C 372.

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The Story of Wendy Hill

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:00:11 +0000

By Sarah Eilers The Story of Wendy Hill, 1949 A “fine and wholesome” young woman, newly married, steps into the street below the office where

Costume Conundrum?

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:00:32 +0000

Still looking for a costume idea for Halloween? Find inspiration in this 1962 series of 12 prints "2300 Years of Medical Costume: Distinctive Garb of the Medical and Related Professions from the Time of Hippocrates and the Napoleonic Era."

The First Medical Book Printed in the New World

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:00:55 +0000

By Michael J. North Just over thirty years after the first printing press arrived in the New World from Spain, the first medical book was

Pure Food: FDA Notices of Judgment

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:00:42 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. Suzanne Junod, a historian in the FDA History Office. In celebration of the completion of NLM’s digital archive of

How To… Kill Animals Humanely

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:00:28 +0000

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A longitudinal section of the skull of of a cow.

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The Death of Andreas Vesalius

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:00:11 +0000

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

Midwives of St. Croix

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:00:03 +0000

By Alexsandra Mitchell Documents within the American College of Nurse-Midwives archival collection in the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division address the importance

Early Latin American Medicine in the NLM Collections

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:30:55 +0000

Michael J. North spoke today at the National Library of Medicine in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month on “Early Latin American Medicine in the NLM

Male Midwives in Ethiopia

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:00:07 +0000

By Alexsandra Mitchell This photograph from our Images from the History of Medicine database (IHM), is one of many gems in our collection. This 1960s

Einstein: The Shy Genius

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:00:26 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee Once Einstein became famous, people would stop him in the street and cry out: “Professor Einstein!” He would say; “Oh yes, many

National Library of Medicine Now Part of The Commons on Flickr

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:00:03 +0000

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A Mystery in Manuscripts

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:00:53 +0000

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on the hills I saw the Buffaloe in his native place for the first time about 200 m fr the mo, we saw small herds

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Andreas Vesalius in Stamps

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:00:02 +0000

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

Actively Fighting Childhood Obesity

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:00:58 +0000

This 2003 poster, published by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, promotes the concept of teenagers having an active lifestyle.

Preserving Nirenberg’s Genetic Code Chart

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:00:50 +0000

By Kristi Wright and Holly Herro The National Library of Medicine is home to a series of very important documents in scientific history—Marshall Nirenberg’s Genetic

A Poster to Pittsburgh

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:00:39 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg As a rule, items are included in the NLM’s History of Medicine Division collection because of their medical or, more broadly,

Rare Footage of FDR at NIH

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:00:01 +0000

By Rebecca C. Warlow On October 31, 1940, just days before President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected to an unprecedented third term as President

A Voyage to Health, a Connection to Communities

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:00:30 +0000

By Alicia Yanagihara ~ When you think of the National Library of Medicine, what comes to mind? Is it a Polynesian canoe? That definitely wasn’t

Dr. Julia Hallam on Pictures of Nursing

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:45:03 +0000

Dr. Julia Hallam spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection.” Dr. Hallam is curator of NLM’s

Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:00:17 +0000

By Erika Mills For over a century, images of nurses and nursing have been featured frequently as the subjects of postcards—so much so that nursing

Medicine, Morality, Faith, and Film

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:00:26 +0000

By Sophie Lipman Religion and science, two concepts sometimes viewed as incompatible today, were seen by many in the 1930s and ‘40s as mutually supportive

Back to School with the Best of ‘Em

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:00:08 +0000

By Courtney Jefferies ~ Around this time of the year, many of us, including myself, are preparing to go back to school. Throughout my summer

A Remarkable Career in Psychiatry

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:00:41 +0000

In 2012 Dr. Lucy Ozarin was interviewed at the National Library of Medicine as part of an oral history project related to the U.S. Navy

A Physician’s Perspective on the Russian Flu

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:00:52 +0000

In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Soon, the “Russia Influenza” spread across Europe and the world. This

The 1889 Russian Flu in the News

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:00:29 +0000

In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Soon, the “Russia Influenza” spread across Europe and the world. This

Mapping the 1889-1890 Russian Flu

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:00:01 +0000

In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Soon, the “Russia Influenza” spread across Europe and the world. This

A Call To Action to Prevent Skin Cancer

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:00:11 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth In the fun summer months, it is often difficult to remember that outdoor activities in the hot sun can cause

Plastic Reconstruction of the Face, 1918

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:00:55 +0000

One hundred years ago, in August 1914, the powers of Europe embarked upon a calamitous war which resulted in the death, mutilation, and suffering of

Primary Sources: K-12

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:22:14 +0000

Kelsey Conway spent her summer months as an intern with the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine. She supported the program with its

The Question of Rest for Women

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:00:10 +0000

By Susan Speaker The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation is an extended version of an essay that won Dr. Jacobi the Harvard Medical

The “Wound Man” in Two Recent Acquisitions

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:00:37 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser The “wound man” was a most popular image, especially in early printed books. Pierced by a variety of weapons, he demonstrated the

Invasion from Mars? Microbes!

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:15:10 +0000

By Gregory Pike Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, it’s easy to forget there was a time when America’s space program dominated

The Anatomy Acts and the Social Contract

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:45:42 +0000

Dr. Dale Smith gave the 2014 James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture today at the National Library of Medicine on “Anatomy Acts and the Shaping of

Cartoons, Comedy, and Cancer in 1952

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:00:58 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor. Dr. Cantor has published on the histories of cancer, meat, medical film, and the after-life of Hippocrates, the

Illustrating De Fabrica

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:00:30 +0000

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

The Revolutionary who Discovered Radium

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:00:45 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee Albert Einstein said “I have always admired . . Marie Curie. Not only did she do outstanding work in her lifetime, and

Circulating Now…Full Circle

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:00:27 +0000

Today is Circulating Now’s one year anniversary! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our success in sharing with the world the amazing, diverse,

Take the Test, Take Control

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:00:27 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This 1995 poster, “You Are Not Alone,” from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), attempts to quell the fear that was,

Kick Polio out of Nigeria

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:00:47 +0000

By Erika Mills During the World Cup, the globe is consumed by The Beautiful Game. Soccer is everywhere—even in public health messages! This poster encouraged

Hosting AOTUS: David S. Ferriero

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:00:53 +0000

Joyce Backus, David Ferriero, and Jeffery Reznick at NLM.

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Losing the Miracle?

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:30:35 +0000

An interview with Maryn McKenna, who spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “Losing the Miracle? Agriculture, the FDA, and the Controversy over Farm Antibiotics.”

Ground-Breaking Reflections: Melvin R. Laird

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:00:56 +0000

NLM Ground Breaking Ceremony Program

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(Re)Discovering The Great War

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:00:09 +0000

By Simon Chaplin and Jeffrey S. Reznick Commemorations of the centenary anniversary of World War I have begun in countries around the world. For the

Dr. Swan writes from Normandy, 1944

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:00:44 +0000

On June 6, 1944, among the troops that waded onto the Normandy beaches were over 40 U.S. surgical teams. Dr. Henry Swan described his experience...

How To…See with the Microscope

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 06:49:45 +0000

By Michael Sappol Microscopy was the coming thing in late 19th-century medicine. If you were an ambitious doctor, no matter what your field of interest,

Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web

Fri, 30 May 2014 15:00:24 +0000

A helpful site for people with Asperger’s Syndrome

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The Spirit of Memorial Day

Mon, 26 May 2014 15:00:00 +0000

The origin of the Memorial Day observance in America is disputed, with several states and communities claiming primacy as the first to hold an official celebration or first to place a holiday on the books, but we know that it began in the years following the U.S. Civil War.

Remembering Clyde Snow, 1928–2014

Thu, 22 May 2014 15:00:55 +0000

By Erika Mills and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Poring over bones left in mass graves and clandestine burial sites, seeking answers that might shed light

“you are going to find the answers”

Tue, 13 May 2014 20:30:57 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Regional Medical Programs You have, among you, some of the great doctors, some of the great public servants of our time. And

The Lady Who Became a Nurse

Mon, 12 May 2014 15:00:20 +0000

By Elizabeth Fee and Mary E. Garofalo Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 of wealthy British parents who expected her to do all

Bacterial Sex: A building block for biotech

Thu, 08 May 2014 15:00:11 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Nurses—The Heart of Healing

Tue, 06 May 2014 15:00:51 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a

Tearing Down the Walls in Mental Health Care

Thu, 01 May 2014 14:15:06 +0000

By Susan Speaker ~ May is Mental Health Month, an annual opportunity to raise public awareness about mental health problems and reduce the stigma associated

Planting the Tree of Hippocrates

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:46:57 +0000

In 2014 a group of dignitaries and guests gathered in front of the National Library of Medicine to plant a tree.

World Malaria Day

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:00:47 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth Every year on April 25th the world commemorates the global effort to control malaria by recognizing World Malaria Day, instituted by World

Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship

Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:00:37 +0000

Sharing new projects and experiences in digital stewardship was the theme of a recent National Digital Stewardship Resident (NDSR) symposium “Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship,”

The Divine Sarah and her Divine Doctor

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:00:55 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robert Gottlieb. Robert is a writer and editor, and the author of Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt; Balanchine: The

Dr. Samuel Mudd, Prisoner and Physician

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:00:13 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robert Summers who has been researching, writing, and lecturing on his ancestor Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s role in the Lincoln

Andreas Vesalius and De Fabrica

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:01:35 +0000

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

A Civil War Surgeon’s Books Rediscovered

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:00:36 +0000

Alexander T. Augusta is among 13 known African Americans that served as surgeons during the American Civil War and one of only two that were commissioned officers in the U.S. Army.

The Magic in Mold and Dirt

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:00:27 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

On Combat Fatigue Irritability: Kerry Kelly Novick Part III

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:00:19 +0000

Last fall, Circulating Now featured a unique film in the NLM’s vast historical audiovisual collection, the World War II U.S. Navy training film Combat Fatigue

Celebrating Salk

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:00:11 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth In this black and white photograph from the 1950s, a nurse stands by while Jonas Salk inoculates a young girl with

TB: A Killer Then, A Killer Now

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:00:36 +0000

By Sarah Eilers Peter Borik: The Story of the Tragedy He Brought His Family, 1944 In the mid-20th century, U.S. public health authorities used a

How To…Plant and Graft All Sorts of Trees

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:00:05 +0000

By Michael Sappol The oldest English-language how-to at the National Library of Medicine is a charming and practical little book dating from 1575. In keeping

On Combat Fatigue Irritability: Kerry Kelly Novick Part II

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:56:35 +0000

Last fall, Circulating Now featured a unique film in the NLM’s vast historical audiovisual collection, the World War II U.S. Navy training film Combat Fatigue

Famine Ships

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:00:55 +0000

A deserted stone hut, once inhabited by dispossessed farmers waiting to make the voyage to America.
Courtesy Stephen Greenberg

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‘Medicine is a Man’s Game?’—Women Doctors in the Movies

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:00:23 +0000

Patricia Gallagher spoke today at the National Library of Medicine in honor of Women’s History Month on“’Medicine is a Man’s Game?’—Women Doctors in the Movies.”

On Combat Fatigue Irritability: Kerry Kelly Novick

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:04:58 +0000

While in the Navy, actor Gene Kelly filmed a training video about "Combat Fatigue Irritability," today known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). NLM spoke to Kerry Kelly Novick, Gene Kelly's daughter, shortly after acquiring the film.

Honoring the Red Cross

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:00:07 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This World War I-era poster created by artist John Mills depicts a Red Cross nurse helping a wounded soldier on the

IndexCat™: Search It, Read It, Download It

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:00:28 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick When John Shaw Billings was posted to the Army Surgeon General’s office in 1865 and put in charge of its small

Ossie Davis at Freedmen’s Hospital

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:08 +0000

By Alexsandra Mitchell ~ Freedmen’s Hospital is a pillar in the history of medicine for the Black community.

Béla Schick and Serum Sickness

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:00:02 +0000

10 tests 1cc. No 2466-05 Lederle. Diphtheria Toxin for Schick Test. Purogenated. Laboratories at Pearl River, N. Y. Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, New York, N. Y. Expiration Date Sep. 22; 1951 Lot No. 2466-11B

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Example of the Schick Test: American Cynamid Company Diphtheria Toxin for Schick Test, Purogenated, 1951. Courtesy National Museum of American History.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:03:53 +0000

By Erika Mills The month we celebrate presidential birthdays is upon us again! George Washington was born in Virginia on February 22, 1732. Until his

Black Student Nurses Around the World

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:00:01 +0000

By Alexsandra Mitchell In the 1940s and 50s, when the United Nations and the World Health Organization were new, an organization called the Helene Fuld

A Chocolate Valentine

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:00:18 +0000

By Michael J. North ~ Chocolate for Valentine’s Day shows affection, but chocolate also has a history as a medicine.

A Look at Librarians

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:00:33 +0000

By Alexsandra Mitchell The job description for today’s librarian is ever-changing, adapting to constantly evolving technological advancements that better serve library users. Libraries have expanded

Super Heroes with a Serious Message

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:05:47 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick More than a colorful image of the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America, this poster offers a serious public health message: “Some

Join Together, Heart to Heart

Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:00:59 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~This 1987 public health poster encourages maintaining healthy blood pressure as a way to attain proper heart health.

Making a Medical Heritage Milestone

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:00:48 +0000

By Michael J. North The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) has achieved an important milestone by adding the 50,000th item to its online collection housed in

Happy New Year!

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:00:20 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This 1491 woodcut illustration from the herbal Ortus Sanitatis shows the horse, a symbol of nobility, class, speed and perseverance in

How To…Read Personal Character

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:00:16 +0000

Retaliativeness large.

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Beer, Yeast, and Louis Pasteur

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:00:28 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

A Peek at Some Pamphlets

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:00:35 +0000

By Shannon Lu Every year, with half the school year behind them, high school and college students begin to fret about summer plans, jobs, and

A Call to Service

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:00:51 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor, activist and prominent leader of the American civil rights movement, was born January 15, 1929.

Protecting the Past: A study of Acetic Acid Offgassing

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:00:00 +0000

By Laura McNulty Last week, Laura McNulty, NLM Pathways Student and Kristi Davenport, NLM contract conservator, shared their research findings at a meeting of The

Sir John Pringle, MD and the Origins of Modern Military Medicine

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:00:41 +0000

Dr. Stephen Craig spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Sir John Pringle, MD, Early Scottish Enlightenment Thought & the Origins of Modern

Smoking in America: 50 Years On

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:00:00 +0000

By Christie Moffatt Fifty years ago, on January 11, 1964, the Surgeon General of the United States, Luther L. Terry, issued Smoking and Health: Report

Percivall Pott: Orthopedics and Occupational Health

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:00:48 +0000

Percivall Pott demonstrating to John Hunter in the year 1756

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Louis Braille’s Vision

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:00:45 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ January is National Braille Literacy Month, which occurs every year in honor of the birth of Louis Braille born January

Andreas Vesalius at 500

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:00:45 +0000

By Michael North ~ Today marks the 499th birthday of the great, 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, born on December 31, 1514. Throughout 2014 Circulating Now

Winter Weather Woes

Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:00:26 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ The winter solstice is upon us, the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Be careful out there!

Getting to know Dr. Osler

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:00:45 +0000

By Susan Speaker ~ I was pleased when the Profiles in Science team was asked to develop a site featuring Sir William Osler (1849–1919). Osler,

Spotlight on Guy’s Hospital

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:00:38 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This festive print by H. Johnson, published in the January 28, 1888 issue of The Graphic, features Christmas scenes at Guy’s

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell’s Literary Career

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:00:32 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) was among the foremost physicians of his time and a prolific writer of both scientific and literary

It’s a Kind of Magic

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:00:03 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Magic lantern slides were known for their colorful and dramatic qualities. This slide, as used for therapeutic purposes at St. Elizabeths Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. that opened in 1855.

Future Explorations of the Modern Flu

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:00:26 +0000

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‘Tis the Season

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:00:52 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Ginny A. Roth ~ Beginning today and through the month of December, Circulating Now offers a series of posts that

Getting to Zero: World AIDS Day

Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:00:34 +0000

Image Copyright K. Haring ’88

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NLM Visits the Sackler

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:00:30 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg Recently, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a unit of the Smithsonian Institution specializing in Asian Art, approached NLM to borrow materials

Giving Thanks

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:00:47 +0000

In this thanksgiving discourse from 1795, when our nation was still very young, the speaker renders thanks for peace and for fruitful seasons and ends with special gratitude for the swift end of an epidemic fever.

Quit Smoking… It’s Only Logical

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:00:25 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This 1989 poster from the American Cancer Society (ACS) features pop culture icon Leonard Nimoy, as his character Mr. Spock from

Vessels, Tubes and Tanks

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:30:18 +0000

Diane Wendt spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Vessels, Tubes and Tanks: Historic Biotechnologies at the Smithsonian.” Ms. Wendt is cocurator of

From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:51:55 +0000

By Erika Mills For some, the word “biotechnology” conjures images like super crops and cloned sheep—things created in a laboratory by manipulating DNA. While many

John F. Kennedy and the National Library of Medicine

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:00:38 +0000

President Kennedy, on June 19, 1963, greeting members of the International Congress on Medical Librarianship on the south lawn of the White House.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Collection Received

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:00:23 +0000

By Margaret Kaiser ~ Recently, the Library received from the National Institute on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center, an excellent collection of

The Eleventh Hour

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:00:00 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ When the United States entered the “Great War” in April of 1917, doctors and nurses were among the first volunteers

Doctoring the Art of Medicine Series

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:30:39 +0000

By Laura McNulty As an artist, May Lesser (1927-2001) seemed destined to produce works of art relating to the medical field—her father, brother, husband, and

Exploring Chicago’s Spanish Flu of 1918

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:09:54 +0000

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia

The Dance of Death

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:00:48 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth Halloween is not a night for the faint of heart. This frighteningly festive 15th century woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle is captioned by a celebratory Latin verse which speaks of death as a friend.

Martin Cummings and Transformative Change at NLM

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:30:50 +0000

By John Rees In His Own Words: Martin Cummings and Transformative Change at NLM The Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program recently completed a digitization project

Uniting Nations

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:00:18 +0000

By Ginny A. Roth This undated poster from the United Nations (UN) Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, “Health For All By The Year

Markham’s Masterpiece of Horse Care

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:00:42 +0000

By Michael J. North ~ Markham’s Masterpiece One of the most important and enduring books in the English language about the care of horses is

Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:26:25 +0000

By Erika Mills The advent of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s bred an atmosphere of fear and confusion as people fell ill and died, questions

…and we’re back!

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:35:43 +0000

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PTSD and Gene Kelly’s Lost Wartime Star Turn https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/25/ptsd-and-gene-kellys-lost-wartime-star-turn/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/25/ptsd-and-gene-kellys-lost-wartime-star-turn/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:00:56 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=2019 by Michael Sappol ~ Before there was PTSD there was shell shock and combat fatigue and Gene Kelly’s Combat Fatigue Irritability. Combat Fatigue Irritability was

Combating Childhood Obesity

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:00:41 +0000

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Childhood obesity can lead to diseases we normally associate with adults

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Aftermath

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:00:06 +0000

Official Autopsy Made September 20, 1881, And a Diagram Showing the Course Taken by the Ball

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 18, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/18/president-garfields-condition-september-18-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/18/president-garfields-condition-september-18-1881-600-pm/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:00:32 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1822

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Three Rare Volumes Go to New York https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/18/three-rare-volumes-go-to-new-york/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/18/three-rare-volumes-go-to-new-york/#comments Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:30:26 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1982 By Michael J. North I was quite excited when I heard that The Grolier Club of New York was staging an exhibition on the history

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 17, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/17/president-garfields-condition-september-17-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/17/president-garfields-condition-september-17-1881-600-pm/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:00:15 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1818

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 16, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/16/president-garfields-condition-september-16-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/16/president-garfields-condition-september-16-1881-600-pm/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:00:53 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1814

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 15, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/15/president-garfields-condition-september-15-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/15/president-garfields-condition-september-15-1881-600-pm/#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:00:29 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1810

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 14, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/14/president-garfields-condition-september-14-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/14/president-garfields-condition-september-14-1881-630-pm/#respond Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:30:23 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1806

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 13, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/13/president-garfields-condition-september-13-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/13/president-garfields-condition-september-13-1881-600-pm/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:00:10 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1802

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Celebrating Walter Reed https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/13/celebrating-walter-reed/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/13/celebrating-walter-reed/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:00:28 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1612 By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth Today would have been Major Walter Reed’s 162nd birthday. Reed, shown in this picture with his daughter Emilie

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 12, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/12/president-garfields-condition-september-12-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/12/president-garfields-condition-september-12-1881-600-pm/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:00:53 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1798

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 12, 1881, 9:00 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/12/president-garfields-condition-september-12-1881-900-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/12/president-garfields-condition-september-12-1881-900-am/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:00:23 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1796

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 11, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/11/president-garfields-condition-september-11-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/11/president-garfields-condition-september-11-1881-600-pm/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:00:13 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1793

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 10, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/10/president-garfields-condition-september-10-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/10/president-garfields-condition-september-10-1881-600-pm/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:00:44 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1787

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A Headstart on Lice Prevention https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/10/a-headstart-on-lice-prevention/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/10/a-headstart-on-lice-prevention/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:00:07 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1604 By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth ~ New backpack? Check. New pencils, pens, and notebooks? Check. Lice comb? Che…Lice comb?!? Yes, it is that

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 9, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/09/president-garfields-condition-september-9-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/09/president-garfields-condition-september-9-1881-600-pm/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:00:01 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1782

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 9, 1881, 9:00 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/09/president-garfields-condition-september-9-1881-900-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/09/president-garfields-condition-september-9-1881-900-am/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:30:16 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1780

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 8, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/08/president-garfields-condition-september-8-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/08/president-garfields-condition-september-8-1881-600-pm/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:00:36 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1778

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 8, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/08/president-garfields-condition-september-8-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/08/president-garfields-condition-september-8-1881-830-am/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:30:49 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1776

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 7, 1881, 6:00 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/07/president-garfields-condition-september-7-1881-600-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/07/president-garfields-condition-september-7-1881-600-pm/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:00:06 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1774

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 7, 1881, 9:00 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/07/president-garfields-condition-september-7-1881-900-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/07/president-garfields-condition-september-7-1881-900-am/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:00:59 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1771

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 6, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/06/president-garfields-condition-september-6-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/06/president-garfields-condition-september-6-1881-630-pm/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2013 22:30:34 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1768

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“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Seashore https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/06/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-seashore/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/06/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-seashore/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:00:18 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1625 By Lenore Barbian and Jeffrey S. Reznick As President Garfield endured all the agonies the wound and its treatment brought him, he longed to go

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 5, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/05/president-garfields-condition-september-5-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/05/president-garfields-condition-september-5-1881-830-am/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:30:48 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1758

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 4, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/president-garfields-condition-september-4-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/president-garfields-condition-september-4-1881-630-pm/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:30:15 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1755

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 4, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/president-garfields-condition-september-4-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/president-garfields-condition-september-4-1881-1230-pm/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:30:08 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1753

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“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Languishing https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-languishing/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/04/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-languishing/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:00:35 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1622 The infection that was ravaging through Garfield’s body was a hazard not only to himself but also to those who treated him.

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 3, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/president-garfields-condition-september-3-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/president-garfields-condition-september-3-1881-630-pm/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:30:07 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1749

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How The Civil War Transformed U.S. Medicine https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/how-the-civil-war-transformed-u-s-medicine/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/how-the-civil-war-transformed-u-s-medicine/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:00:13 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1843 Shauna Devine spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “The Civil War, the Army Medical Museum, and the Surgeon General’s Library: Medical Practice

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The Reward of Courage https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/the-reward-of-courage/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/the-reward-of-courage/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:15:11 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1829 By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Michael Sappol NLM Releases a Rare, 1921 Silent Film on Cancer Prevention Produced in 1921 by the American Society for

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 2, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-630-pm/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:30:06 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1740

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 2, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-830-am/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:30:35 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1736

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 2, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/02/president-garfields-condition-september-2-1881-1230-pm/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:30:30 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1738

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 1, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-630-pm/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:30:36 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1734

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 1, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-1230-pm/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:05 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1731

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President Garfield’s Condition: September 1, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/01/president-garfields-condition-september-1-1881-830-am/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:30:44 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1729

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 31, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-630-pm/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:30:12 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1658

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 31, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-1230-pm/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:30:01 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1656

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 31, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/31/president-garfields-condition-august-31-1881-830-am/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:30:35 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1654

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 30, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/president-garfields-condition-august-30-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/president-garfields-condition-august-30-1881-630-pm/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:30:32 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1651

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 30, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/president-garfields-condition-august-30-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/president-garfields-condition-august-30-1881-1230-pm/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:30:08 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1649

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The Red Poppy: A Curious Herbal https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/the-red-poppy-a-curious-herbal/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/30/the-red-poppy-a-curious-herbal/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:00:47 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1525 By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth ~ This image, rightly called “Red Poppy,” appears in the eighteenth century herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) titled

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 29, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-630-pm/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:30:49 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1645

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 29, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-1230-pm/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:30:26 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1643

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 29, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/29/president-garfields-condition-august-29-1881-830-am/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:30:52 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1641

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 28, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/president-garfields-condition-august-28-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/president-garfields-condition-august-28-1881-630-pm/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:30:56 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1639

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 28, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/president-garfields-condition-august-28-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/president-garfields-condition-august-28-1881-1230-pm/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:30:15 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1635

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MCCR was There https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/mccr-was-there/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/28/mccr-was-there/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:47:12 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1689 The Medical Committee for Civil Rights (MCCR) joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 27, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/president-garfields-condition-august-27-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/president-garfields-condition-august-27-1881-630-pm/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:30:58 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1629

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 27, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/president-garfields-condition-august-27-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/president-garfields-condition-august-27-1881-1230-pm/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:30:53 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1519

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How To…Box to Win https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/how-to-box-to-win/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/27/how-to-box-to-win/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:30:30 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1071 By Michael Sappol ~ How to Box to Win; How to Build Muscle; How to Breathe, Stand, Walk or Run; How to Punch the Bag:

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 26, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/president-garfields-condition-august-26-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/president-garfields-condition-august-26-1881-630-pm/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:30:26 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1515

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 26, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/president-garfields-condition-august-26-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/president-garfields-condition-august-26-1881-1230-pm/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:30:56 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1511

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Dr. Albert Sabin: A Closer Look https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/dr-albert-sabin-a-closer-look/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/26/dr-albert-sabin-a-closer-look/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:00:19 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1543 By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth Dr. Albert Sabin was born today, August 26 in 1906 in Poland and is best known for developing

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 25, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-630-pm/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:30:42 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1507

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 25, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-1230-pm/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:30:30 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1504

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 25, 1881, 9:15 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-915-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-915-am/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:15:39 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1502

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 25, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/25/president-garfields-condition-august-25-1881-830-am/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:30:01 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1500

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 24, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-630-pm/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:30:59 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1498

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 24, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-1230-pm/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:30:54 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1496

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 24, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/24/president-garfields-condition-august-24-1881-830-am/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:30:40 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1493

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 23, 1881, 6:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-630-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-630-pm/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:30:15 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1491

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 23, 1881, 12:30 PM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-1230-pm/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-1230-pm/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:30:42 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1489

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President Garfield’s Condition: August 23, 1881, 8:30 AM https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-830-am/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/23/president-garfields-condition-august-23-1881-830-am/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:30:33 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1487

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“The President is somewhat restless…”: Bulletins https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/22/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-bulletins/ https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/08/22/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-bulletins/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:35:05 +0000 http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/?p=1059 By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian Incarnations of a Bulletin The daily condition reports on the President’s health reached anxious readers around the nation

President Garfield’s Condition: August 22, 1881, 6:30 PM

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