By Michael J. North Markham’s Masterpiece One of the most important and enduring books in the English language about the care of horses is by
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Medicine, Museums, and Unicorns
By Stephen J. Greenberg One of the fun parts of working at the reference desk in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library
How to… in the historical collections of NLM
By Michael Sappol The “how to” is an ancient genre. There are Egyptian how-to texts (in hieroglyphics) on how to prepare mummies; Sumerian how-tos (in