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Illustration of an Anopheles malaria mosquito drinking a glass of blood. Illustration includes map of the world indicating malaria prevalence.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

March 4, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ A marvelous thing happened on March 2, 1904. A boy by the name of Theodor Seuss Geisel was born and

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Illustration featuring a soldiers dreams of home and an attacking mosquito.

Malaria Pinup Calendars, 1945

June 13, 2017 Circulating Now

By Mike “Sport” Murphy Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. To young American GIs waging World War II in the

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Illustration of a cartoon-character mosquito sitting on a pillow on what appears to be an Army bed.

World Malaria Day

April 25, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth Every year on April 25th the world commemorates the global effort to control malaria by recognizing World Malaria Day, instituted by World

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Take a look, it's in a book: a Reading Skeleton! Also known as the "Praying Skeleton" from artist Jacques Gamelin's 'Nouveau recueil d'ostéologie et de myologie' (Toulhouse, 1779), this illustration shows a rear view of a skeleton as it kneels before a shelf of books. The motto reads "Orate ne intretis in tentationem" and has been translated as "Beware, lest ye be led into temptation." Gamelin's combination of #MementoMori with anatomical study in the work's eccentric scenes appealed to both artists and medical students. Visit the link in our bio to learn more on NLM's Historical Anatomies on the Web.

Cline’s Surgery (ca. 1790) is an 18th century manuscript of surgical lectures that cover an extensive range of procedures, including mastectomy, cataract removal, lithotomy, amputation, and tonsillectomy. Henry Cline (1750-1827) was an English surgeon and president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Lecture notes such as these are valuable sources of historical medical information. Visit the link in our bio to view in NLM Digital Collections.

"The news of a strange kind of radiation that defied all standing theories of light & matter—& enabled people to see through opaque objects—had generated worldwide excitement."

How to survive on land and sea (Annapolis, 1943) is a manual that was issued by the U.S. Navy’s Aviation Training Division to trainees during #WorldWar2 as part of the preflight survival-training program. From glacier to desert, aviators learned how to navigate unusual conditions through this program should their carrier be taken down. Accompanied by photographs and illustrations, the comprehensive chapters covered everything from how to use bamboo joints to boil drinking water to instructions on how to climb while being lifted in a Spanish bowline (image 2). A folded map provided information on the vegetative regions of the world (image 3).

Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955) was born #OnThisDay 144 years ago in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a distinguished #bacteriologist and research physician and one of the founders of #immunochemistry. He is best known for his discovery that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) serves as genetic material. Avery is pictured here looking through a microscope in his lab at the #RockefellerInstitute in the 1920s.

In Frederik Ruysch’s volumes of ‘Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken’ (Amsterdam, 1744), we have a #CreepyCollection of #CreepyCollections. The engraved illustrations like the one pictured here depict the dioramas created by the Dutch anatomist in the late 17th century as demonstrator of anatomy at the Surgeon’s Guild in Amsterdam. His renowned “repository of curiosities” exhibited fetal skeletons posed in curious landscapes of plants and preserved body parts. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about Ruysch and early anatomical preparations in NLM's Dream Anatomy exhibition.

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