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A collage of medical images from different time periods and media.

Top 9 of 2022 from NLM Collections on Instagram

January 12, 2023 Circulating Now

By Krista Stracka ~ Happy New Year! Before we dig into 2023, we’re taking a moment to count down last year’s most-liked Instagram posts from

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An older white man in shirtsleeves sits upright at a desk with his chin propped on his fists.

Lawrence Kolb—Mental Health as Public Health

December 15, 2022 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new Profiles in Science site featuring psychiatrist Lawrence Kolb (1881–1972). This Profile

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Detail from a catalog of films listing "Rx" A Documentary Film.

Adolf Nichtenhauser: Documenting the History of Movies and Medicine

March 3, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor to discuss a newly digitized collection of materials related to medicine and film compiled by Adolf Nichtenhauser (1903–1953).

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A still from a C-SPAN broadcast of a woman at a podium flanked by a panel.

The National Commission on AIDS, 1989–1993

January 7, 2022 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new Profiles in Science site! Unlike most of our earlier Profiles, which

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A collage of images from the NLM_Collections instagram feed.

Follow NLM Collections Now on Instagram

July 30, 2021 Circulating Now

By Krista Stracka ~ The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that we have joined Instagram! Follow @nlm_collections to see highlights from our

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Detail of the 1981 Psychological Cinema Register catalog.

Psychological Cinema

August 22, 2019 Circulating Now

By Amanda Maple (Pennsylvania State University) and Sarah Eilers (NLM) ~ From Experimentally produced neurotic behavior in the rat to Prefrontal lobotomy in chronic schizophrenia,

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Photograph of one opened 16th century book, two closed Harry Potter novels, and two pendant necklaces.

Circulating Now Celebrates 20 Years of Harry Potter!

June 22, 2017 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ J. K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the debut novel in the seven-book series that became a pop

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Detail of a handwritten page of a book titled: a wound drink.

Digitizing Material Culture: Handwritten Recipe Books, 1600–1900

April 13, 2017 Circulating Now

By John Rees Cookbooks and recipe books have always been popular with students of history and family genealogy. They are tangible artifacts of past lives

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Image of a man with a toothache pointing out the tooth to a dentist.

Images from the History of Medicine is Moving to NLM Digital Collections

May 31, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth   On June 1, 2016, Images from the History Medicine (IHM), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), History of Medicine Division’s

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Screen shot of Images from the History of Medicine in Open-i

Images from the History of Medicine in Open-i

April 21, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth On March 22, 2016 the NLM History of Medicine Division’s image database, Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), launched in

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The Films of Virologist Telford Work

The Films of Virologist Telford Work

NLM Collections on Instagram

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.
Spring has sprung and we're blooming with excitement to share an illustration of Claytonia virginica (commonly called Spring Beauty) from A Flora of North America by surgeon and scientist William P.C. Barton (1786-1856). This beautifully illustrated botanical work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States and is considered one of the most important early American color plate books.
For #FilmFriday, we are featuring a clip from a very rare fragment of the silent film, Plastic Reconstruction of Face, produced in 1918 that shows the sculpting work of Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood at the Studio for Portrait Masks. The footage reveals the earnest work of the sculptors who specialized in creating masks for World War I soldiers with facial injuries. Trench warfare produces many of these debilitating and demoralizing injuries. Soldiers injured this way often underwent multiple surgeries, but contemporary plastic surgery techniques were limited. Ladd started with plaster cast and then made a copper mask to cover just the injured area. She used fine metal threads for eyelashes and painted the masks to match the skin tone.
This week, the Circulating Now blog looks at the film "A Question of Justice," documenting the work of female attorneys and activists from 38 nations who, in 1975, attended the first Inter-Hemispheric Conference on Law, Population, and the Status of Women.
The 1964 film It Takes Your Breath Away is a graphic and persuasive portrait of the dangers of pollution. Its creator was Mary Catterall (Image 2), a physician and activist living in Leeds, England who worked to educate those in medicine, industry, and government about the deleterious effects of mining and air pollution on human health. Said Dr. Catterall, “I attacked the urban pollution, particularly of Leeds, with my usual frontal assault—I talked graphically and frequently to doctors, city councilors, trade unions, to administrators, anyone who would listen, and to those who would have preferred not to.”
We're adding a bit of a twist to #TongueTuesday by sharing an anatomical drawing from NLM's copy of Lambert von Heerenberg's Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino (Cologne, 1485). Illustrated by a student in red and brown ink, the drawing shows a tonsured monk surrounded by swirling banners that describe the actions of the soul in the body and pointers to the organs of the five senses.

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