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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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Today's Circulating Now blog post features an interview with Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., PhD, of the @universityofhouston, about next week's James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine, "The Many Faces of Diabetes: Complications and Debility in Late 20th Century America." Click the link in bio or visit https://loom.ly/BQ9kkaE to read today.
While NLM is being renovated, we're featuring a #WaybackWednesday image for #LibraryShelfieDay! This 1887 image features an interior view of Library Hall in the Army Medical Museum and Library, predecessor to today's NLM.
#OTD in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College at the top of her class and became the first woman in America to earn the M.D. degree. She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers. By establishing the New York Infirmary in 1857, she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing qualified women who were rejected from internships and training opportunities elsewhere because of their gender.
Today's feature for #AnatoMonday is the second edition of The Composite Man as Comprehended in Fourteen Anatomical Impressions by E.H. Pratt, starring The Bony Man, The Arterial Man, The Skin Man, and other supporting characters.
"Often on first glance 18th and 19th century handwriting is discouraging. It doesn’t want you to read it. But once you take some time looking closely at each word, you come to know the writer and how he or she shaped certain letters and words. Once you and the writer understand each other, transcription begins to gather speed."
Who doesn't love a good catnap on #NationalDressUpYourPetDay? Issued by the Red Cross in the early 20th century, this postcard features a black and white photograph of a sleeping cat dressed as a nurse in a white uniform and a little cap.

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