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
Category: Rare Books & Journals
Pre-1914 books and serials, pre-1871 journals, and pamphlets and dissertations, and early Western and Islamic manuscripts.
Christmas in Wartime: gauze stockings for 200 men
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
NLM’s Unique De Fabrica
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
Partners in Illuminating Science
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
Thanksgiving DeLuxe, 1918
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
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
The Sacred Work: Galsworthy’s Advocacy for WWI Veterans
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
The First Medical Book Printed in the New World
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
How To… Kill Animals Humanely
By Michael Sappol Is empathy innate? Are we all born with the ability to identify with the emotions of others, to feel someone else’s pain?
The Death of Andreas Vesalius
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