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Detail of the title of the Journal La Homeopatia.

George Deacon and the Circulation of Homeopathic Therapies in Peru (1880-1915)

March 10, 2022 Circulating Now

An interview with Patricia Palma, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on NLM’s unique copy of La Homeopatía, first homeopathic journal in Peru.

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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 collage of many black and white images consisting mainly of brain anatomy and graphs.

Images and Texts in Medical History—Miriam Posner

April 5, 2016 Circulating Now

On April 11-13, 2016, the National Library of Medicine will host the workshop “Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and

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Detail of engraving style illustration of a woman holding up a hand in defense.

Change is Possible

March 8, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the last in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from Dr. Catherine Jacquet.

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PubMed Central: Visualizing a Historical Treasure Trove

February 23, 2016 Circulating Now

By Tyler Nix, Kathryn Funk, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Erin Zellers A wealth of medical history awaits your exploration in the National Library of Medicine’s

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A plate from the Journal Philosophical Transactions illustrating the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1767.

Early Journals: What’s in a Name?

February 3, 2016 Circulating Now

By Atalanta Grant-Suttie The journal is so much a part of the current apparatus of scholarly communication that one never really thinks where and how

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What motivates a rare book collector? This week's Circulating Now blog post looks at the legacy of Thomas Windsor, whose lifetime investment in books enriched the growing collections of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (now NLM!).
Maxine Singer (born 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose restrictions on the new and controversial science of recombinant DNA, and to develop a framework for removing these restrictions as knowledge of the science advanced. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Singer was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position in which she not only reinvigorated the Institution's scientific programs, but served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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