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Congressman Laird pauses to chat with Dr. James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in front of the NIH Administration Building.

Remembering Melvin R. Laird, 1922–2016

November 18, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey Reznick The NLM’s History of Medicine Division mourns the passing of Melvin R. Laird, former Republican congressman from Wisconsin (1953–1969), Secretary of Defense

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Marshfield Clinic’s 100-Year Contribution to the Future of Medicine

October 12, 2016 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Rachel V. Stankowski, PhD, scientific research writer at the Marshfield Clinic, located in Marshfield, Wisconsin.  Dr. Stankowski offers a view

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John E. Fogarty at home with his wife Luise and daughter Mary, 1948 or 1949

John E. Fogarty—A Family Perspective

October 1, 2015 Circulating Now

NLM’s newest Profiles in Science site features Congressman John Edward Fogarty (1913–1967), who was called “Mr. Public Health” for his dedication to increased federal funding

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John E. Fogarty with Melvin Laird on the U.S. Capitol steps. ca. 1960.

“Mr. Public Health”—John E. Fogarty, Medical Research, and Health Care

September 25, 2015 Circulating Now

By Susan Speaker In January of 1941, a twenty-seven year old Rhode Island bricklayer named John Edward Fogarty began his first term in the U.S.

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A concept sketch of the unbuilt National Library of Medicine

Ground-Breaking Reflections: Melvin R. Laird

June 12, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey Reznick ~ During the sunny and warm afternoon of June 12, 1959, dignitaries gathered on the campus of the National Institutes of Health

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"X-Rays" (1926) is a self-portrait etched by American artist John Sloan (1871-1951). In the scene, he holds a cup of barium while undergoing an upper gastrointestinal fluoroscopic study under the care of two radiologists. Sloan, a prominent exponent of the "Ashcan School," sought inspiration from everyday scenes and activities of modern life, such as the taking of X rays, rather than landscape, nudes and the other traditional subjects of academic art.
In recognition of #AmericanArtistAppreciationMonth, the Circulating Now blog interviewed artist Rachael Que Vargas this week about her project to create life-size mosaics based on illustrations from NLM's hand-colored copy of Eustachi's Tabulae anatomicae (Rome, 1783). Learn more about how the project got started, her techniques, and what her study of the images has revealed in "Anatomy Set in Stone" (🔗 Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/Zs1sPRY).
This photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken in 1940 as he stood on the steps of Building 1 and delivered a speech to dedicate the new Bethesda campus of the National Institute of Health.
We're adding a little mystery on this #ManuscriptMonday. These drawings are from an anatomical sketchbook created in New Harmony, Indiana in 1830. Each drawing is signed with the pseudonym "Clorion."
In recognition of C. Everett Koop's high visibility in the public media and his advocacy of child health and safety, several toy manufacturers created dolls in his likeness. For #NationalDollDay, we are sharing a photograph of Dr. Koop holding one of these look-alike dolls.
We're sending you this early #20thCentury postcard for today's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesPostcard. The front features a photo-multigraph of a nurse created by photographer Lucien Gaulard of Marseille. Using a "trick mirror" technique invented in the early 1890s by James B. Shaw in Atlantic City, Gaulard created a single photograph of the same nurse seated in five positions. If you look closely, you can see the two positions in the back were carefully scraped away by hand to feature only the forward-, left-, and right-facing positions.

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