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A 15th century engraving depicting an indiginous south american handing a box marked Inda Chocolata to Posidan , standing on a chariot in the sea.

A Chocolate Valentine

February 14, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North ~ Chocolate for Valentine’s Day shows affection, but chocolate also has a history as a medicine.

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Detail of the title page of the text, in Latin.

Andreas Vesalius at 500

December 31, 2013 Circulating Now

By Michael North Today marks the 499th birthday of the great, 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, born on December 31, 1514. Throughout 2014 Circulating Now will

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In Frederik Ruysch’s volumes of ‘Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken’ (Amsterdam, 1744), we have a #CreepyCollection of #CreepyCollections. The engraved illustrations like the one pictured here depict the dioramas created by the Dutch anatomist in the late 17th century as demonstrator of anatomy at the Surgeon’s Guild in Amsterdam. His renowned “repository of curiosities” exhibited fetal skeletons posed in curious landscapes of plants and preserved body parts. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about Ruysch and early anatomical preparations in NLM's Dream Anatomy exhibition.

A magnified flea menaces an ax- and shears-wielding man in this #LanternSlide previously owned by St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C.

For #MapMonday, we are featuring a find from our cartographic collection. 'Health map of Montreal: showing the annual death rate per thousand for the average of the years 1876, '77, and '78, resulting from smallpox, typhoid fever, and diphtheria' was prepared by cartographers Mr. Hovey and W. Dawson Bell (1854-1944) to track the mortality of the three listed diseases. The publishing information is not included, but the map was most likely created in Montreal around 1879.

This still from the CDC's 1962 film titled 'The Nurse Combats Disease' shows a nurse washing her hands with soap as one method to prevent the spread of pathogens. NLM's audiovisual collection includes many titles like this one that promote #handwashing habits. View the 12-minute program in NLM Digital Collections: https://loom.ly/ymOoeYo.

Happy #WorldAnatomyDay! Celebrate by exploring NLM's Dream Anatomy online exhibition (https://loom.ly/C7CG2Uw).

With National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week coming up, this week's Circulating Now blog post by Erika Mills explores an NLM exhibition about the history of community action against the dangers of lead: https://loom.ly/zTQlPUA (link also in bio).

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