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Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

July 14, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes

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Detail of Title page of London's Dredful Visitation printed with a motief of skulls, hourglasses, and shovels surrounding the text.

Revealing Data: London’s Deadly Visitation

September 27, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Kristin Heitman, PhD, who shares her insights on seventeenth century data collection and analysis as part of our Revealing Data

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An older man and a teenage boy post together on a porch.

“Our dear Laddie has been taken”: Edward Revere Osler killed in Flanders, August 1917

August 30, 2017 Circulating Now

 By Susan Speaker ~ In an earlier post, I highlighted the wartime experiences of Sir William Osler, who is often called “the father of American

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A bas-relief plaque featuring an American eagle and a caduceus.

The Spirit of Memorial Day

May 26, 2014 Circulating Now

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ The origin of the Memorial Day observance in America is disputed, with several states and communities claiming primacy as the

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Skeletons are rising from the dead for the dance of death.

The Dance of Death

October 31, 2013 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth
Halloween is not a night for the faint of heart. This frighteningly festive 15th century woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle is captioned by a celebratory Latin verse which speaks of death as a friend.

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Detail of the title page of President Garfield's autopsy report stamped Surgeon General's Library.

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Aftermath

September 20, 2013 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian The Beginning of the End While the ocean air of Elberon initially caused some improvement in Garfield’s condition,

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"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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Join us on Thursday, March 30th at 2:00 PM ET for the next NLM History Talk! Soha Bayoumi, PhD of Johns Hopkins University will discuss “COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic." This talk will will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting (https://loom.ly/ILbAYPM).
For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.

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