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Atill from animated film Rodney of a doctor explaining TB and lung function to a young man.

Rodney, 1950

June 24, 2021 alinelink

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

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Still from Symptoms in Schizophrenia film showing a doctor working with a masked male patient.

Symptoms in Schizophrenia

August 13, 2020 alinelink

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

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A collage of Scope magazine covers illustrating the unique design of the publication.

Scope Magazine (1941–1957)

November 29, 2018 alinelink

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

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Bar chart showing the years 1910 through 1960.

Smoking and You

November 19, 2015 alinelink

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

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A group of X-ray's showing a foot in a shoe and a hand and arm.

Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery

September 24, 2015 alinelink

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,

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Illustration of a Dissection of the Heart and Blood Vessels

The Human Body in Pictures—Jacob Sarnoff

August 18, 2015 alinelink

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

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President Lincoln lying in bed at the Petersen house surrounded by physicians.

A Day that Changed American History

April 14, 2015 alinelink

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

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Two figures in white uniforms and on skis, carry an injured patient on a strectcher through the snow covered landscape.

Winter Wounds, Paper Dressing

February 24, 2015 alinelink

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

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Detail of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek characters.

Aldus Manutius and Early Medical Humanist Publishing

February 6, 2015 alinelink

By Michael North Today marks the 500th anniversary of the death of one of the most important figures in the printing of early Humanist texts

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Happy Birthday, Edward Jenner! Born #OTD in 1749, Dr. Jenner was an English surgeon and scientist who developed the world's first vaccine, a vaccine for #smallpox.
This #18thCentury manuscript herbal by Andrea Di Petris includes over 200 drawings of plants documenting his herbal medicine practice near Padua, Italy. The majority of entries contain physical description, environmental details, medicinal uses, and often an anecdote about his experience using the herb or folkloric comment.
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. To celebrate, we are sharing this black and white photograph from 1922 of Major General Merritte W. Ireland (1867-1952) surrounded by military and civilian staff of the Surgeon General's Office with the #LincolnMemorial in background.
The National Library of Medicine recently redesigned the online presentation of its exhibition Emotions and Disease. Held in the Library’s building in Bethesda, Maryland 25 years ago, the exhibition explored the intersection of the mind and body. Circulating Now interviewed Esther Sternberg, MD and Ted Brown, PhD about their work on the original exhibition and the continued relevancy of its message today.
As #NationalNursesWeek comes to an end, we are sharing Honnor Morten's How to Become a Nurse and How to Succeed, an 1890's nursing guide published in London by the Scientific Press. Violet Honnor Morten (1861-1913) was a nurse, journalist, and social work pioneer who authored several manuals and frequently contributed nursing articles to the Daily News and The Hospital. Visit https://loom.ly/1v2Twy0 to learn more about the book on the Circulating Now blog (link also in bio).
With so many different varieties of #leather available, choosing what to use on collections can be difficult! Leather is a very traditional material for many types of bindings, though the process to create it has changed significantly over the past couple of centuries. We currently use vegetable tanned leather created with hydrolysable tannins when doing full leather bindings, rebacks, or other repairs.

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