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Precautions for Doctors, 1495

July 15, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Richard Tait, PhD, who shares his research on a rare incunable in the National Library of Medicine’s collection. Dr. Tait

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A handwritten list of objectives on Glueck's letterhead.

What Makes a Murderer: Dr. Bernard Glueck’s Psychological Evaluations

April 11, 2019 Circulating Now

By James Labosier ~ Every murder is unique. Two nineteen-year-old sons of wealthy Chicago families kill a neighborhood boy in 1924 because they think they’re

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Letters Shed Light on Huey Long’s Murder Mystery

September 11, 2018 Circulating Now

By Divyansh Agarwal ~ A seemingly typical Sunday evening in Louisiana, September 8, 1935, was about to become extraordinary. The House of Representatives had organized

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A colored drawing demonstrating an incision and removal of tissue from a breast.

“Wrapped in flesh”: Views of the body in East Asian Medicine

December 3, 2015 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Yi-Li Wu. Dr. Wu is a Center Associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan,

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A candid photo of Dan Shridan in front of a chalkboard.

From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis

September 17, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Catherine Jacquet spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis: Nursing and the Intervention into Domestic

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AN engraving of a wallpapered room in which people stand and sit around the bed where the President lays.

Lincoln’s Last Hours

April 15, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150 years ago on

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Clyde Snow, back to the camera, presents images of physical evidence in a trial.

Remembering Clyde Snow, 1928–2014

May 22, 2014 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Poring over bones left in mass graves and clandestine burial sites, seeking answers that might shed light

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Detail of the title page of President Garfield's autopsy report stamped Surgeon General's Library.

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Aftermath

September 20, 2013 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian The Beginning of the End While the ocean air of Elberon initially caused some improvement in Garfield’s condition,

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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.
We're continuing our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth by featuring images from "In the Soldier's Service: War Experiences of Mary Dexter: England, Belgium, France, 1914−1918" (Boston, 1918), a title from NLM's extensive collection of personal narratives. Edited by her mother Emily Loud Sanford, the book is based on the letters written by Mary Dexter that describe her service as an American volunteer for the British Red Cross during #WW1 and experiences as a nurse, dietician, and ambulance driver.
For #FlapbookFriday, we are featuring a copy of Anathomia (Strassburg, 1538) that was recently pulled for a patron request. This anatomical #FugitiveSheet shows the internal organs of a female figure displayed in moveable, hinged layers. Flap anatomies were first introduced in the #16thCentury as an educational aid, and their popularity continued into the early twentieth century.

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