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Horse-drawn carrriages are positioned on a grassy expanse. Servicemen stand or sit on horses.

The Ambulances of Antietam

September 15, 2022 Circulating Now

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In an earlier post Benjamin Forrest discussed the travails of the Union Army’s Ambulance Corps in the Civil War. This

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Halftone illustration of a soldier holding his arm on a battlefield.

Courage Under Fire: Combat First Aid in WWII

May 26, 2022 Circulating Now

Combat First Aid is a booklet originally published in Infantry Journal in May 1944. The guidance is designed to be easily recalled in an emergency and while it explains how to save a life, acknowledges that not every situation is survivable.

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A triangle of cloth with a printed image of a realisticly rendered scene of injured soldiers bandaged in various ways.

First Aid on the Battlefield, 1869

July 22, 2021 Circulating Now

By Mark Harrison ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 1870–71 the Prussian war machine tore through France with ruthless

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Illustration of a bleeding soldier.

Medical Perspectives on World War 2

April 27, 2017 Circulating Now

By Crystal Smith ~ It’s with great pleasure that I introduce you to a treasured new addition to National Library of Medicine (NLM) Digital Collections:

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Still from opening that reads For Official Use Only

Vulnerability to Covert Attack, 1959

May 24, 2016 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers Vulnerability to Covert Attack. The film title seems as relevant today as it must have when it was made, in the Cold

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Two figures in white uniforms and on skis, carry an injured patient on a strectcher through the snow covered landscape.

Winter Wounds, Paper Dressing

February 24, 2015 alinelink

By Sarah Eilers ~ It’s a black and white film, but it’s the white that overwhelms. A carpet of snow beneath Nordic pines, white uniforms

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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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