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A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War

April 28, 2022 Circulating Now

An interview with Matthew Stibbe, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his research on internment during the First World War.

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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

October 14, 2021 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ This year, October 24–30 is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Exposure to lead can cause neurological and cognitive issues, kidney damage,

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Public Health Rhymes, 1918

April 1, 2021 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth Mullen ~ Germs that float upon the air Are sure to settle everywhere; They’ll be on pencil and on pen, And even on

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A doctor and nurse stand at thehead of a patient bed in a large amphetheater full of people.

Revealing Data: Dr. James Herrick and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

June 9, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at

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Detail of a nurse bride and military groom.

Seeking Leek Island: An Interview with Pamela Robertson

May 28, 2020 Circulating Now

In 2019, Circulating Now published two blog posts about a scrapbook NLM had recently acquired. One post related the history of Leek Island Military Hospital

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Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey

November 12, 2019 Circulating Now

By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek Island Military Hospital as a

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A man sits outdoors on a rock with a book.

Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing

November 7, 2019 Circulating Now

By Aliya Rahman ~ Across the globe, World War I—known by contemporaries as the “The War to End All Wars” —took millions of lives and

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A street mat of Washinton DC showing the location of the Army Medical Library.

A New History of NLM: The “Old Red Brick”

July 20, 2017 Circulating Now

By Anne Rothfeld ~ This is the fourth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine in

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Films and Essays from NLM: Medicine on Screen

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.
Caudex Folium, an artist book created by Maria G. Pisano in 2016 and acquired by NLM in 2021, was inspired by the The Survivor Tree and celebrates its return to the 9-11 National September Memorial Plaza in New York, after it was nursed back to health and replanted in 2010 next to the South Pool.

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