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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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A small mountainous island across the water.

The Tragedy and Hope of Ninoshima

March 17, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jen Woronow. Her research explores historic and contemporary conflicts with an emphasis on examining the human side of war. Today

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Two photographs of men with head wounds.

“Human bullets,” A Russo-Japanese War Photo Album

January 13, 2022 Circulating Now

By Alexander Bay ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This essay takes a look at an album of 50

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A chart showing how transfer of evacuees were done starting with Mayer in May and ending with Fresno in October.

Wartime Incarceration of Deaf Japanese Americans

December 16, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes Selena Moon, MA, a public historian researching Japanese American mixed race history, military history, and disability history. Today she joins us to

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A report, assembled like a scrapbook, with typed pages and attached tabes, graphs, and photographs.

The First Calamity of the Nuclear Age

August 6, 2015 Circulating Now

The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this report issued in November 1945, Japanese army doctors labored to describe what they had seen and done.

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Two white men take blood from a young black youth outside a building, other black adults and youths look on.

D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea

April 7, 2015 Circulating Now

By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918–2000, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in

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For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.
Spring has sprung and we're blooming with excitement to share an illustration of Claytonia virginica (commonly called Spring Beauty) from A Flora of North America by surgeon and scientist William P.C. Barton (1786-1856). This beautifully illustrated botanical work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States and is considered one of the most important early American color plate books.
For #FilmFriday, we are featuring a clip from a very rare fragment of the silent film, Plastic Reconstruction of Face, produced in 1918 that shows the sculpting work of Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood at the Studio for Portrait Masks. The footage reveals the earnest work of the sculptors who specialized in creating masks for World War I soldiers with facial injuries. Trench warfare produces many of these debilitating and demoralizing injuries. Soldiers injured this way often underwent multiple surgeries, but contemporary plastic surgery techniques were limited. Ladd started with plaster cast and then made a copper mask to cover just the injured area. She used fine metal threads for eyelashes and painted the masks to match the skin tone.
This week, the Circulating Now blog looks at the film "A Question of Justice," documenting the work of female attorneys and activists from 38 nations who, in 1975, attended the first Inter-Hemispheric Conference on Law, Population, and the Status of Women.
The 1964 film It Takes Your Breath Away is a graphic and persuasive portrait of the dangers of pollution. Its creator was Mary Catterall (Image 2), a physician and activist living in Leeds, England who worked to educate those in medicine, industry, and government about the deleterious effects of mining and air pollution on human health. Said Dr. Catterall, “I attacked the urban pollution, particularly of Leeds, with my usual frontal assault—I talked graphically and frequently to doctors, city councilors, trade unions, to administrators, anyone who would listen, and to those who would have preferred not to.”
We're adding a bit of a twist to #TongueTuesday by sharing an anatomical drawing from NLM's copy of Lambert von Heerenberg's Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino (Cologne, 1485). Illustrated by a student in red and brown ink, the drawing shows a tonsured monk surrounded by swirling banners that describe the actions of the soul in the body and pointers to the organs of the five senses.

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