Explore a range of historically significant biomedical journals newly added to PubMed Central including World War I publications.
Category: Collections
Posts highlighting the history of medicine and the collections of the National Library of Medicine.
Anorexia in the Archives: Documenting the Late Twentieth Century Rise in Eating Disorders
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Erika Mills ~ For centuries, people used willow bark to treat pain and fevers. However, it was not until the late 1800s that scientists