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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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This #18thCentury manuscript herbal by Andrea Di Petris includes over 200 drawings of plants documenting his herbal medicine practice near Padua, Italy. The majority of entries contain physical description, environmental details, medicinal uses, and often an anecdote about his experience using the herb or folkloric comment.
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. To celebrate, we are sharing this black and white photograph from 1922 of Major General Merritte W. Ireland (1867-1952) surrounded by military and civilian staff of the Surgeon General's Office with the #LincolnMemorial in background.
The National Library of Medicine recently redesigned the online presentation of its exhibition Emotions and Disease. Held in the Library’s building in Bethesda, Maryland 25 years ago, the exhibition explored the intersection of the mind and body. Circulating Now interviewed Esther Sternberg, MD and Ted Brown, PhD about their work on the original exhibition and the continued relevancy of its message today.
As #NationalNursesWeek comes to an end, we are sharing Honnor Morten's How to Become a Nurse and How to Succeed, an 1890's nursing guide published in London by the Scientific Press. Violet Honnor Morten (1861-1913) was a nurse, journalist, and social work pioneer who authored several manuals and frequently contributed nursing articles to the Daily News and The Hospital. Visit https://loom.ly/1v2Twy0 to learn more about the book on the Circulating Now blog (link also in bio).
With so many different varieties of #leather available, choosing what to use on collections can be difficult! Leather is a very traditional material for many types of bindings, though the process to create it has changed significantly over the past couple of centuries. We currently use vegetable tanned leather created with hydrolysable tannins when doing full leather bindings, rebacks, or other repairs.
We're "feline" excited for the @iglibraries #PawsomeLibraries challenge, hosted by @silibraries. This early #20thCentury postcard features a black and white photograph of a nurse using what looks like a small riding whip to capture a fluffy cat's attention.

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