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Remembering Dr. Andrew C. Jackson and the Tulsa Race Massacre

June 10, 2021 Circulating Now

June 1, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Jackson, a prominent Black physician, was murdered during the massacre.

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MD’s Wife: Subscriptions and Prescriptions About Medical Marriages Across the Twentieth Century

March 12, 2020 Circulating Now

By NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow Kelly O’Donnell, PhD.

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Leonidas H. Berry and the Fight to Desegregate Medicine

July 17, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine provides public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982.

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Physician Veterans of WWI

November 11, 2016 Circulating Now

By Anne Rothfeld ~ Doctors are vital to the U.S. military branches, and despite the volumes of historical research on their contributions to military medicine,

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AMA Deceased Physicians Masterfile 1906–1969

October 20, 2015 Circulating Now

By Anne Rothfeld To celebrate American Archives Month Circulating Now is highlighting NLM’s archival collections with several posts this October. From the very beginning of

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Combating Childhood Obesity

September 23, 2013 circulating now

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Childhood obesity can lead to diseases we normally associate with adults

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Shared Suffering Onscreen: Animal Experiments and Emotional Investment in the Films of O. H. Mowrer

Shared Suffering Onscreen:  Animal Experiments and Emotional Investment in the Films of O. H. Mowrer

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Born #OTD in 1818, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist widely regarded as the “savior of mothers” for his discovery of handwashing as crucial in preventing maternal mortality. In 1850, Semmelweis showed that puerperal fever—also known as childbed fever—was caused by an infection, which could be prevented by disinfecting the hands of the obstetricians and midwives with a chlorine solution before they examined mothers in labor. Today, hand hygiene is recognized as a key practice for health care workers to diminish the spread of infections.
Don't put down that #ComicBook! You may learn something!
In addition to being used to create book pages, #parchment is also an option for covering books. Today on #NationalParchmentDay we're sharing a small manuscript from the mid-#16thCentury. It has a limp parchment cover that has shrunk to the point it no longer fully covers the text block - a common phenomenon for this material, which is very sensitive to the many environmental changes that would happen over the course of centuries.
Today we are celebrating the birthday of Helen Keller (born #OTD in 1880). She lost both her hearing and sight after a bought of illness as a young child and went on to become a disability rights advocate. Among her many achievements was her work on behalf of returning veterans during and after the Second World War. This photograph of Helen Keller at the bedside of a wounded veteran was taken during her visit to the patients of Brooke General Hospital in 1944 and was featured in an article in the hospital's magazine, the Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast. To the patients and staff she said, "The fighting men have splendid morale...it is hard to define--makes me feel the spirit that is mightier than all wars--a spirit that will at last recreate the world."
Barcodes are wonderful! They are immensely useful for keeping track of collection items in our libraries. Unfortunately, they're also sometimes placed in inconvenient places such as on these reports from the 1880s. In addition to being on the envelope the items are housed in, which is totally cool, both barcodes and call number labels were placed directly on the brittle paper at some point in the past. This isn't best for document preservation for multiple reasons, including that the barcodes are much stiffer and thicker than the surrounding paper. We removed them in the conservation lab so that the historic paper will be safer long term.
This image, produced for the NLM's "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic" exhibition, was recently featured in the piece by @pozmagazine entitled "Viewing the History of AIDS through Posters." Visit https://loom.ly/R1fL-Bs to follow the conversation between three curators on their recent exhibitions which "emphasize the pivotal role played by HIV and AIDS posters since the virus emerged in the early ’80s." (🔗 link also in bio).

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