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A cartoon drawing of Huber, a tuberculosis germ, riding a cough droplet with his friends.

Huber the Tuber, 1943

July 27, 2023 Circulating Now

By Steven Heller ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Tuberculosis attracted considerable attention from artists and writers. Along with

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A page from a book in Japanese with an illustration of a child's face showing the red spots of measles concentrated around the mouth and chin.

Necessary Instructions About Measles, 1824

June 9, 2022 Circulating Now

By Margaret Kaiser ~ The National Library of Medicine recently acquired a rare work on measles in Japan.  Mashin Hitsuyo  (Necessary Instructions About Measles) was

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Postcard art shows people reacting with disgust as a person in a shop sneezes openly.

Airborne Infection Control in 20-Century Peace and War

November 19, 2020 Circulating Now

By Tom Quick ~ The world can change unexpectedly in times of crisis. This story begins, like so many histories of medicine, with an illness.

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A network diagram shows connections of varying strength between words related to influenza.

Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods

November 16, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A pie chart showing a little more than a third of deaths attributed to various respriratory diseases, with influenza at 4.7% and all other causes at 58.2%

Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic

November 15, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A word cloud that represents relative frequency of words in articles about influenza, with medical, cases, Dr, Mr, January, epidemic, number, public and symptoms included.

Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting

November 14, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

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A chef prepares a chicken on a cutting board.

Scrub Away the Thanksgiving Troublemakers

November 17, 2016 Circulating Now

In the 1950s, the CDC produced a food-handling film series demonstrating what—and what not—to do when storing and preparing food.

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Portraits of Agnew and Bliss look in on the scene of Garfield on his sickbed

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Languishing

September 4, 2013 Circulating Now

The infection that was ravaging through Garfield’s body was a hazard not only to himself but also to those who treated him. 

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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.

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