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NLM Collections Tour: Climate and Health

April 20, 2023 kdunne02

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

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NLM Collections Tour: Aging

September 22, 2022 Circulating Now

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

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NLM Collections Tour: Nutrition

May 19, 2022 Circulating Now

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

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NLM Collections Tour: Matters of the Heart

February 10, 2022 Circulating Now

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

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NLM Collections Tour: HIV/AIDS

December 9, 2021 Circulating Now

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.

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NLM Collections Tour: Health at Home

August 26, 2021 Circulating Now

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.

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NLM Collections Tour: Mental Health

May 20, 2021 Circulating Now

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

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NLM Collections Tour: Vaccines

March 5, 2021 Circulating Now

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

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NLM Collections Tour: Epidemics

December 17, 2020 Circulating Now

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

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The Public Health Film Goes to War

The Public Health Film Goes to War

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For #FloralFriday, we've picked an engraved and hand-colored illustration (Image 1) of the "female piony" (Paeonia faemina, Plate 65) from the first volume of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, printed in London in 1737. Just outside, the peony flowers (Image 2) in the NLM Herb Garden bloomed with a welcomed burst of color for spring.
In the 1930s/1940s, cinema—#PublicHealth films included—was having a moment. With the onset of World War II, the U.S. military had much to say and show audiences of soldiers and the public. Often in league with well-regarded filmmakers, the government sought to inform, inspire, and educate military men and women as well as the masses at home.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (born #OnThisDay in 1686) was a physicist and instrument maker best known for inventing both the alcohol and mercury thermometers as well as developing his namesake temperature scale.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine looks at the history of prosthetics and how #NIH supports innovation. Read about the oldest known prosthetics (two different artificial toes from ancient Egypt) all the way up to cutting-edge research supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (#NIBIB) today.
Albrecht Dürer (born #OnThisDay in 1471) was a noted German painter, graphic artist, and humanist. Dürer was interested not only in the arts but pursued the sciences as well, including perspective and the proportions of the human body.
For #NationalLearnToSwimDay, we're featuring a photograph captioned "Flora teaching Priscilla to swim" from the #WW1 Leek Island Military Hospital album of nurses and patients created during the summer of 1918.

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