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A man uses a lancet to vaccinate a baby on a woman's lap in a rustic room, a cow looks in the window.

Edward Jenner and “the happy immunity”

August 7, 2018 Circulating Now

By Aliya Rahman ~ August is back-to-school month. While many of us are booking last-minute vacations or scrambling to purchase tickets to that almost-sold-out concert,

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Four nurses pose for smiling candid photos outdoors.

Fresh Air and the White Plague

October 6, 2016 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Cynthia Connolly. Dr. Connolly is Associate Professor of Nursing at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History

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A large building with a long colonnaded porch in a tropical setting.

Leprosy in India, ca. 1931

July 6, 2016 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Magnus Vollset. Dr. Vollset is a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway, and holds a PhD in medical history

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Animation still of a young girl with "Immunize" printed on her dress.

Emmy Immunity

August 20, 2015 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers It’s August. Students are facing summer’s end and the start of another school year. Parents are scrambling to arrange physical and dental

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One lamb chop and a single pea on a plate.

The Story of Wendy Hill

November 3, 2014 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers The Story of Wendy Hill, 1949 A “fine and wholesome” young woman, newly married, steps into the street below the office where

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Jonas Salk inoculating a child with the polio vaccine.

Celebrating Salk

March 26, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth In this black and white photograph from the 1950s, a nurse stands by while Jonas Salk inoculates a young girl with

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A young woman lies in bed, covering her mouth as she talks with an older woman seated at her bedside.

TB: A Killer Then, A Killer Now

March 24, 2014 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers Peter Borik: The Story of the Tragedy He Brought His Family, 1944 In the mid-20th century, U.S. public health authorities used a

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A some shaped stone structure with an open rectangualar doorway and plants taken root on it standing in a medow.

Famine Ships

March 17, 2014 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg Ireland is a beautiful country, but it is a haunted one as well.  Invasions, civil wars, massacres, religious and political repression,

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What motivates a rare book collector? This week's Circulating Now blog post looks at the legacy of Thomas Windsor, whose lifetime investment in books enriched the growing collections of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (now NLM!).
Maxine Singer (born 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose restrictions on the new and controversial science of recombinant DNA, and to develop a framework for removing these restrictions as knowledge of the science advanced. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Singer was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position in which she not only reinvigorated the Institution's scientific programs, but served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
"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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