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The Contraceptive Pill: Up for Debate in 1969 and Beyond

March 19, 2020 Circulating Now

By Donna J. Drucker ~ G.D. Searle’s Enovid pill came on the market for married women in June 1960 when the U.S. Food and Drug

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A woman holds up a glass tube

Making Exhibition Connections: Melnick Medical Museum

June 22, 2018 Circulating Now

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

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An embossed gold shield featureing a man threatening a skeleton with a weapon labeled Microbe Killer.

Radam’s Microbe Killer: Advertising Cures for Tuberculosis

October 9, 2015 Circulating Now

In nineteenth century America, tuberculosis accounted for nearly one out of every ten deaths. Known most commonly as “consumption,” this disease was dreaded across society

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Chappelear's Bronchini, the great cure, the best of all cough cures.

Medical Advertisements after FDA

July 15, 2015 Circulating Now

By Kelsey Conway In the summer of 2014 I had the wonderful opportunity to intern with the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division.

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Note to Mr. J. C. Pearson, from Indianapolis on July 17, 1951.

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Rees

May 8, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

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A glass bottle labeled "100 Tablets Kevadon thalidomide" from the WM. S. Merrell Company.

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Swann

May 7, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

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A group of men sit around a dining table, one weighs cake on a balance scale.

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—Suzanne Junod

May 6, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine will host a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From

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Promotional image for Kellogg's Pep.

Pure Food: FDA Notices of Judgment

October 27, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. Suzanne Junod, a historian in the FDA History Office. In celebration of the completion of NLM’s digital archive of

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Poster detail reads antibiotics don't work on colds...

Losing the Miracle?

June 17, 2014 Circulating Now

An interview with Maryn McKenna, who spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “Losing the Miracle? Agriculture, the FDA, and the Controversy over Farm Antibiotics.”

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<em>Challenge: Science Against Cancer</em> or How to Make a Movie in the Mid-Twentieth Century

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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.
We're adding a little mystery on this #ManuscriptMonday. These drawings are from an anatomical sketchbook created in New Harmony, Indiana in 1830. Each drawing is signed with the pseudonym "Clorion."
In recognition of C. Everett Koop's high visibility in the public media and his advocacy of child health and safety, several toy manufacturers created dolls in his likeness. For #NationalDollDay, we are sharing a photograph of Dr. Koop holding one of these look-alike dolls.

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