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An abstract, surreal drawing including a silhouette head with brain, neurons, and medical imagery.

Drawn To, Drawn From Experience

November 14, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright España Senior Research Fellow

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A nurse in dark goggles sits by a patient lying with skin exposed to a bright electric light.

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

December 20, 2016 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

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Celebrating the Nobel Prize

December 9, 2016 Circulating Now

By Christie Moffatt The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony takes place tomorrow, December 10, in Stockholm, Sweden, as it does each year, on the anniversary of

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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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Tuberculosis notice listing danger signs.

World Tuberculosis Day

March 24, 2015 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth On March 24, 1882, a medical milestone was achieved. Dr. Robert Koch reported his discovery that Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the cause of

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Nirenberg, ina lab coat, sitsin his office by a blackboard and a cart of molecule models.

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg

March 16, 2015 Circulating Now

Tomorrow, March 17, 2015 the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the first of a “triplet” of events at the National Institutes of Health

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Einstein: The Shy Genius

October 2, 2014 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth Fee Once Einstein became famous, people would stop him in the street and cry out: “Professor Einstein!” He would say; “Oh yes, many

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Colored newspaper illustration of Marie Curie in a lab.

The Revolutionary who Discovered Radium

July 3, 2014 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth Fee Albert Einstein said “I have always admired . . Marie Curie. Not only did she do outstanding work in her lifetime, and

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Detail of the engraved title page of Observations including a portrait of a woman and baby

Three Rare Volumes Go to New York

September 18, 2013 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North I was quite excited when I heard that The Grolier Club of New York was staging an exhibition on the history

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Born #OTD in 1818, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist widely regarded as the “savior of mothers” for his discovery of handwashing as crucial in preventing maternal mortality. In 1850, Semmelweis showed that puerperal fever—also known as childbed fever—was caused by an infection, which could be prevented by disinfecting the hands of the obstetricians and midwives with a chlorine solution before they examined mothers in labor. Today, hand hygiene is recognized as a key practice for health care workers to diminish the spread of infections.
Don't put down that #ComicBook! You may learn something!
In addition to being used to create book pages, #parchment is also an option for covering books. Today on #NationalParchmentDay we're sharing a small manuscript from the mid-#16thCentury. It has a limp parchment cover that has shrunk to the point it no longer fully covers the text block - a common phenomenon for this material, which is very sensitive to the many environmental changes that would happen over the course of centuries.
Today we are celebrating the birthday of Helen Keller (born #OTD in 1880). She lost both her hearing and sight after a bought of illness as a young child and went on to become a disability rights advocate. Among her many achievements was her work on behalf of returning veterans during and after the Second World War. This photograph of Helen Keller at the bedside of a wounded veteran was taken during her visit to the patients of Brooke General Hospital in 1944 and was featured in an article in the hospital's magazine, the Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast. To the patients and staff she said, "The fighting men have splendid morale...it is hard to define--makes me feel the spirit that is mightier than all wars--a spirit that will at last recreate the world."
Barcodes are wonderful! They are immensely useful for keeping track of collection items in our libraries. Unfortunately, they're also sometimes placed in inconvenient places such as on these reports from the 1880s. In addition to being on the envelope the items are housed in, which is totally cool, both barcodes and call number labels were placed directly on the brittle paper at some point in the past. This isn't best for document preservation for multiple reasons, including that the barcodes are much stiffer and thicker than the surrounding paper. We removed them in the conservation lab so that the historic paper will be safer long term.
This image, produced for the NLM's "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic" exhibition, was recently featured in the piece by @pozmagazine entitled "Viewing the History of AIDS through Posters." Visit https://loom.ly/R1fL-Bs to follow the conversation between three curators on their recent exhibitions which "emphasize the pivotal role played by HIV and AIDS posters since the virus emerged in the early ’80s." (🔗 link also in bio).

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