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July 9, 2013 Circulating Now

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

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Need some wrapping paper design inspiration this season? For #WallpaperWednesday, we are sharing ideas from an unlikely source. These nine designs are a small set of the arsenical wallpaper samples from Dr. Robert Kedzie's Shadows from the Walls of Death, published in Lansing, Michigan in 1874. The purpose of the book was to increase awareness of the health problems caused by exposure to the vibrant arsenic-based pigments that were so fashionable at the time. See the link in our bio to learn more about the book in the 3-part series "'Facts and Inferences'—Digitizing Shadows From the Walls of Death" (2018) from Circulating Now, or visit https://loom.ly/OioOad8

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy-- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” so began President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s address to Congress, requesting a declaration of war on Japan thus beginning U.S. involvement in the European and Pacific fronts.

Thank you so much for being here! 😊 As an expression of our gratitude for reaching the milestone of over 1,000 followers, here is an illustration of the Campanula rotundifolia (Blue bellflower) from William Curtis's Flora Londinensis (1798) with some extra appreciation sprinkled in.

For #FilmFriday, we are featuring a still from Combat Fatigue Irritability, a 1945 wartime naval training film directed by and starring Gene Kelly. Kelly plays the role of Seaman Bob Lucas, a troubled and angry “fireman” whose ship was sunk in battle. Many sailors died at sea, but Lucas lived through it and suffers from what now might be termed “post-traumatic stress disorder.” After lashing out at everyone around him, Lucas comes to understand his emotions, and moves from illness to wellness, with the help of a wise psychiatrist. Although Kelly considered this his best performance, few people have ever had the chance to see it outside of its wartime context.

For the last two years, Theodore (ted) Kerr has been diving into the #NationalLibraryOfMedicine collection to curate the upcoming exhibition "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic." Kerr (@tedkerr) is a writer, organizer, and artist. On this World AIDS Day, read about his experience and the collections in "AIDS Posters--a Community Tool to Save Lives" from the Circulating Now blog (#LinkInBio).

#OTD in the year 1094, an unnamed scribe wrote this page and completed the third part of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb (The comprehensive book on medicine) by Abū Bakr Muhammad al-Rāzī (865-925). Al-Rāzī (Rhazes) was a Persian physician and polymath who is now recognized as one of the most celebrated figures in the #HistoryOfMedicine for his many achievements, including the discovery of the difference between smallpox and measles.

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