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How To…Plant and Graft All Sorts of Trees

March 20, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol The oldest English-language how-to at the National Library of Medicine is a charming and practical little book dating from 1575. In keeping

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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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Ahoy! There's a #ChonkyBook up ahead for #ManuscriptMonday. Measuring five inches wide, 'Prescriptions for the Physician's Patients' is a British naval medical log for June 1-30, 1791. Recordings inside includes the ship's name, time of entry, person's name, quality, disorder, medicines, and diet.

This #19thCentury advertisement for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil features a toy boat about to be cat-sized by a cute kitten. The #PatentMedicine was sold as a cure-all for a variety of ailments including toothache, earache, backache, and coughs.

For today's #ArchivesHashtagParty, we dove into the #ArchivesUnderTheSea to share a reproduction of the painting "The Submarine Appendectomy," a depiction of an emergency operation performed by Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes aboard the USS Seadragon in September 1942 to save the life of his fellow crewman.

Join us next week to welcome Randall Sell, ScD of Drexel University for the next #NLMHistTalk, "'We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it': Struggles and Stories to Be Heard for Today and Tomorrow." Read an interview with Dr. Sell this week in the latest post from the Circulating Now blog to learn more about his research and upcoming talk (🔗 Link in Bio).

The #PetriDish is a common laboratory tool used to culture different cells and microorganisms. Why is it called a "Petri" dish? The transparent lidded dish is named after Julius Richard Petri (born #OnThisDay in 1852) who worked as an assistant to the renowned microbiologist Robert Koch. In 1887, after struggling with dust and extra bacteria in samples, Petri tweaked Koch's plating design to reduce contamination. After almost 140 years, the design has remained the same.

For #TitlePageTuesday, we pulled 'The Wound Dresser: a Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion' (Boston, 1898) by American poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman. Whitman (born May 31, 1819) served as a volunteer during the American Civil War, visiting sick and wounded soldiers in the military hospitals. The book opens with Whitman's famous poem of the same title, followed by published essays and his wartime correspondence.

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