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This 1918 flu pandemic poster from the NLM Prints & Photographs collection was recently featured in a piece by @KnowableMag entitled “What will history say about Covid? Museums scurry to collect—and prepare to remember.” The article provides insights into the challenges facing libraries and archives actively collecting to help future generations understand the current #COVID19 pandemic. Visit https://loom.ly/SVjeoHU to read more (link also in bio).

#TitlePageTuesday meets #TypographyTuesday in this title page from Marcos José Salgado's Cursus medicus Mexicanus (Mexican medical course). Published in Mexico in 1727, it is considered the first textbook on #physiology printed in the Americas. Visit https://loom.ly/fUk0wEk to view in NLM Digital Collections. #LinkAlsoInBio ⠀

In honor of #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth, we are featuring a #portrait of Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915). In 1881, Finlay identified the mosquito as the source of #YellowFever, a discovery that was initially rejected and even ridiculed at the time but one that would save countless lives.

More than 50 years ago, mankind’s inhumanity to Planet Earth was documented and dramatized in film, much of it supported by the US government. Take a peek at this clip from the 1973 film Countdown to Collision and learn more in the latest #NLMHistTalk on "Peril in the Air: Pollution Activism on Film". Find more on the subject with a dive into NLM’s Medicine on Screen: Darkening Day. Visit the link in our bio to find both resources.

The National Library of Medicine's new #OnlineExhibition ‘So, What’s New in the Past?: The Multiple Meanings of Medical History’ explores how the history of medicine has told different stories and different truths over time depending on the questions asked and concerns raised. Visit the link in our bio to read more in today’s post from Circulating Now by Erika Mills.

If you can still find one, fire up the record player and learn about peptic ulcers with this 7-inch 33 1/3 rpm sponsored by the makers of Milpath, a mild tranquilizer popular in the 1950s and ‘60s. After listening to side 1, flip the record and relax to Beethoven’s Country Dances for Orchestra on side 2. It was common in that era for pharma to produce records of this type—a medical topic on one side, a classical composition on the other. The National Library of Medicine has about 200 vinyl records on medical topics in 7, 10, and 12-inch sizes.

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