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Composite of stills from a film It Takes Your Breath Away showing pollution and its impact on health.

Air Pollution is a Human Problem: Mary Catterall’s Campaign for a Livable Leeds

February 4, 2021 Circulating Now

Angela Saward, Wellcome Collection, London, discusses the 1964 British public health film It Takes Your Breath Away.

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A detail from a gingerbread cecipie from the 18th century.

Spice of History: A Gingerbread Recipe

December 21, 2018 Circulating Now

Recipe books from the 18th century hold a combination of food recipes, herbal remedies, and other such household creations thought to improve health. Powell’s “ginger bread” recipe includes ingredients easily found in today’s grocery store and provides measures still in use today.

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A network diagram shows connections of varying strength between words related to influenza.

Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods

November 16, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A pie chart showing a little more than a third of deaths attributed to various respriratory diseases, with influenza at 4.7% and all other causes at 58.2%

Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic

November 15, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A word cloud that represents relative frequency of words in articles about influenza, with medical, cases, Dr, Mr, January, epidemic, number, public and symptoms included.

Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting

November 14, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

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The Blood Donor Evolution

August 9, 2013 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth This 1981 poster titled “The Summer Blood Donor is a Rare Bird – Be Distinguished” from the Great Britain Department of

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

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

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Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate those individuals who have lost their lives to the disease. This year’s theme “Let Communities Lead,” speaks to the power of communities to connect and protect as well as to monitor and advocate for access to resources and accountability from authorities.
In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing a portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876 - 1952), the second Native American woman to hold an M.D. degree. Visit NLM's "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition site to learn more about her life and work: Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/GatkWhg
Pardon me, but it's already Thanksgiving Eve?
Today we join the nation in remembering former First Lady Rosalynn Carter who passed away yesterday after a lifetime of service.
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! This week, the Circulating Now blog explores early works with pumpkins in the NLM collections, from the 1597 book "The Herbal or Generall Historie of Plantes" with woodcut illustrations to an 1898 journal citation discussing a pumpkin seed in the bronchus.
Gather round the piano for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesFamilyPhotos, hosted by @usnatarchives. Pictured here is American geneticist Barbara McClintock singing by the piano with her family (including the family dog 🐶) around 1914. Almost 70 years after this picture was taken, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.

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