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

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

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.

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