India – Circulating Now from NLM

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

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

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.