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The book Images of America: The US National LIbrary of Medicine sits on a collage of archival images.

NLM in Pictures—Read it This Summer

June 24, 2018 Circulating Now

Putting together a summer reading list? Images of America: U.S. National Library of Medicine, published a two years ago this month in the popular series by Arcadia Publishing, is sure to please.

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detail from the cover of a new illustrated history of the National Library of Medicine.

Introducing A New Illustrated History of NLM

July 11, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Ken Koyle ~ This is the first post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National

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Image of a man with a toothache pointing out the tooth to a dentist.

Images from the History of Medicine is Moving to NLM Digital Collections

May 31, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth   On June 1, 2016, Images from the History Medicine (IHM), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), History of Medicine Division’s

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Screen shot of Images from the History of Medicine in Open-i

Images from the History of Medicine in Open-i

April 21, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth On March 22, 2016 the NLM History of Medicine Division’s image database, Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), launched in

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A colage of open books, posters, and titlepages.

Images and Texts in Medical History

April 4, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick Next week, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the workshop Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to

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Recruitment poster for graduate nurses.

National Library of Medicine Now Part of The Commons on Flickr

September 30, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth   The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce its partnership with Flickr as a new member of The Commons.  Public

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

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

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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.
We're sending you this early #20thCentury postcard for today's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesPostcard. The front features a photo-multigraph of a nurse created by photographer Lucien Gaulard of Marseille. Using a "trick mirror" technique invented in the early 1890s by James B. Shaw in Atlantic City, Gaulard created a single photograph of the same nurse seated in five positions. If you look closely, you can see the two positions in the back were carefully scraped away by hand to feature only the forward-, left-, and right-facing positions.
In 1927 Carl Hubert Sattler (1880–1953?), a Königsberg physician, produced an inexpensive set of stereoscope cards for the diagnosis and treatment of juvenile strabismus at home, subsequently widely translated and reprinted. The cards come in pairs that, viewed through a stereoscope, make a composite picture. NLM holds an edition published in 1942. Learn more in "'What do you See?': Stereoscopic Pictures, 1942," the latest post from the Circulating Now blog (🔗 link in bio or https://loom.ly/I8iwAPk).
This illustration of subarachnoid injections of the human brain is from the first volume of Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes ("Studies in the Anatomy of the Nervous System and Connective Tissue"). Finished over seven years, this groundbreaking project features the most detailed illustrations of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves of its time. Read more about the work in the latest post from the Circulating Now blog (🔗 Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/tCnhevc).
E.coli meets penicillin in this clip from The Motion Picture in Medical Education, produced in the early 1960s. As the antibiotic diffuses, movement of the E.coli rods slows and they become distended. This film includes excerpts from multiple medical teaching titles, the aim being to demonstrate the effectiveness of motion pictures as a pedagogical tool. It’s one of several hundred legacy films in the NLM collection digitally preserved in the past 18 months.

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