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A large building with a long colonnaded porch in a tropical setting.

Leprosy in India, ca. 1931

July 6, 2016 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Magnus Vollset. Dr. Vollset is a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway, and holds a PhD in medical history

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A journal resting in a custom acrylic book mount.

NLM Visits the Sackler

November 27, 2013 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg Recently, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a unit of the Smithsonian Institution specializing in Asian Art, approached NLM to borrow materials

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Cover of The Bubonic Plague and how to prevent it pamphlet

How To…Prevent the Bubonic Plague

July 16, 2013 Circulating Now

This roughly-printed small pamphlet documents a big catastrophe: an outbreak of bubonic plague in British Colonial India in 1897.

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