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A photograph of a nurse wearing a surgical mask and a list of tips "to prevent influenza"

Influenza Precautions, Then and Now

January 15, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech offers a comparison of health recommendations during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 and today. 

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Don’t Hesitate. Vaccinate.

August 16, 2013 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth This 1977 poster titled “Parents of Earth, Are Your Children Fully Immunized?” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, features Star

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Inshoku yōjō kagami (Rules of Dietary Life) is a colorful Japanese woodcut print produced around 1850 that playfully illustrates the body's inner workings during digestion. As the man dines on fish and drinks sake, miniature people labor within each organ to process and transport the meal through the body according to its function.
This illustration from the Hebrew encyclopedic work Ma’a’seh Toviyah ("Work of Tobias") by Toviyah Kats pairs the interior of a human body with the interior of a house as a visual metaphor. The organs, like rooms in a house, have different functions. Published in 1708, the 3-volume text covered a range of subjects including theology, astronomy, medicine, and hygiene. Kats (1652-1729), one of the first Jews to study medicine at a German university, completed his degree at Padua and served as court physician to the Ottoman Sultan.
American artist Leonard Karsakov (1917-1993) designed this poster for a campaign by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1945. A human figure—formed from news clippings and advertisements about different non-prescription “cures” for venereal diseases—pours out a dose of medicine. The message reads, "No home remedy or quack doctor ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea. See your doctor or local health officer." Contagious disease goes unchecked due to the false advertising of unlicensed and unqualified medical practitioners, which are disseminated to the public through advertising in the uncontrolled and proliferating mass print media.
"X-Rays" (1926) is a self-portrait etched by American artist John Sloan (1871-1951). In the scene, he holds a cup of barium while undergoing an upper gastrointestinal fluoroscopic study under the care of two radiologists. Sloan, a prominent exponent of the "Ashcan School," sought inspiration from everyday scenes and activities of modern life, such as the taking of X rays, rather than landscape, nudes and the other traditional subjects of academic art.
In recognition of #AmericanArtistAppreciationMonth, the Circulating Now blog interviewed artist Rachael Que Vargas this week about her project to create life-size mosaics based on illustrations from NLM's hand-colored copy of Eustachi's Tabulae anatomicae (Rome, 1783). Learn more about how the project got started, her techniques, and what her study of the images has revealed in "Anatomy Set in Stone" (🔗 Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/Zs1sPRY).
This photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken in 1940 as he stood on the steps of Building 1 and delivered a speech to dedicate the new Bethesda campus of the National Institute of Health.

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