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Archiving Web Content on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

March 26, 2020 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as part of the Library’s ongoing Global Health Events web archive collection.

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Influenza Precautions, Then and Now

January 15, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech offers a comparison of health recommendations during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 and today.

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Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

November 19, 2014 Circulating Now

Of the information about Ebola on the web, what will remain one, ten, or even fifty years from now? This content is at high risk for loss.

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Future Explorations of the Modern Flu

December 5, 2013 Circulating Now

Those who preserved the newspapers of 1918 served modern researchers well, today NLM preserves web content on epidemics and other health topics for the benefit of future historical research.

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How To…Prevent the Bubonic Plague

July 16, 2013 Circulating Now

This roughly-printed small pamphlet documents a big catastrophe: an outbreak of bubonic plague in British Colonial India in 1897.

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A drawing of a man in a robe and dramatic posture hipnotising a youn woman sitting in a chair.

The Girl in the Lion Cage: Regulating Hypnotism in 19th Century France

February 20, 2020 Circulating Now

Katrin Schultheiss, Ph.D. will speak on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 2:00 ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine. Dr.

sketches of 3 various types of aortic dissections with percentage of cases.

The Development of the DeBakey Classification of Aortic Dissection

February 13, 2020 Circulating Now

By 2019 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow Susan Green, MPH

A drawer of cards pulled out in a card catalog.

Card Tricks: The Decline & Fall of a Bibliographic Tool

February 6, 2020 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ There was a time, not so very long ago, when card catalogues were pretty much synonymous with libraries. You really

Illustration of a detail of a tattoo in blue and red featuring cats and geometric elements.

“Hurrah for France and Fried Potatoes”

January 30, 2020 Circulating Now

By Nicole Baker ~ One of the joys of working at the National Library of Medicine is the opportunity to connect some of my personal

Pen to Parchment: National Handwriting Day

January 23, 2020 Circulating Now

By Krista Stracka ~ In honor of National Handwriting Day, we recognize the craft of the highly-skilled medieval scribes and artists who meticulously copied and

A group of men with PW stenciled on thier shirts gather around a man with a notebook.

‘Barbed-wire disease’ during the First World War

January 16, 2020 Circulating Now

By Matthew Stibbe ~ Even before the guns fell silent in Northern France and Belgium on November 11, 1918, the prevalence of mental disturbance among

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