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A nurse leans toward a crying boy in a hospital bed.

Robin, Peter, and Darryl: Three to the Hospital, 1969

October 13, 2022 Circulating Now

By Trey Bunn ~ I recently spent some time with a film called Robin, Peter, and Darryl: Three to the Hospital. This 1969 documentary, directed

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More Pictures of the Pandemic

July 9, 2021 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Three months ago Circulating Now published a post presenting new acquisitions related to COVID-19. As vaccination rates rise in our

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A photo portrait of a woman in a scarf.

Nightingale: Lady and Legend

May 12, 2020 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Some people seem not quite real. Nightingale is not a simple figure to fathom; so much is obscured by her legendary image.

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Two ladies sitting together on rocks, one with her arm around the other.

Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey

November 12, 2019 Circulating Now

By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek Island Military Hospital as a

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Postcard featuring a color illustration of a girl dressed as a nurse bringing something on a tray to a boy sitting in a chair.

The Young at Heart

February 14, 2018 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ A gallery of WWI era postcards from the Zwerdling Postcard Collection.

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Postcard featuring a photograph of 3 Red Cross nurses standing in front of a Red Cross tent.

World War I Centenary Forum: A Call to Service

April 6, 2017 Circulating Now

Ginny A. Roth, will speak at 2 PM ET today, April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “A Call to Service: Women Represented

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The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War

World War I Centenary Forum: Stories from the NLM Collections

April 3, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Anne Rothfeld One hundred years ago, on April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson spoke to the US Congress requesting

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Photographs of 3 woman in nursing uniforms, generally including variations on a collared shirt, cap and apron.

A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations

May 12, 2016 Circulating Now

By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library

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A sentimental drawing of a nurse.

Nurses—The Heart of Healing

May 6, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a

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For #AmericanHearthMonth, we are featuring a gif of two frontispiece illustrations from the second edition of A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart (Philadelphia, 1870) by the eminent American physician Austin Flint (1812-1886). First published in 1859, this work is considered the first major American textbook on #cardiology.
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Jane Cooke Wright. Dr. Wright (1919-2013) became a professor of surgery, head of the cancer chemotherapy department, and associate dean at New York Medical College, and the highest ranked African American woman at a nationally recognized medical institution. She was the first woman to be elected president of the New York Cancer Society.
Welcome to Color Our Collections Week sponsored by @nyamnyc! During the week of February 6-10, NLM is participating in this annual social media #coloring festival alongside other libraries, archives, and cultural institutions by sharing our free coloring book. The #ColoringBook features images from NLM's historical collections and is now available to download, print, and color! Please share your finished pages on Instagram using the hashtag #ColorOurCollections!
For this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesBlackDesign, we are featuring the "Father of the Blood Bank," Dr. Charles R. Drew. In 1941, he introduced the use of mobile collection units (later called "bloodmobiles") to aid in the war effort. These vehicles were equipped for collecting and storing blood from donors. We often take the blood donation for granted today, but inventions like these continue to save countless lives.
"Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons" highlights contemporary African American surgeons and educators who have exemplified excellence in their fields and mentor young generation of African American physicians. NLM has refreshed the original exhibition website from 2006. Now Opening Doors has a new look and feel and is accessible across all devices! Learn more about several selected African American surgeons who have worked to improve health care and to inspire the next generation of surgeons.
This #WoodcutIllustration from Jehan Cousin's Livre de Pourtraicture (Paris, 1608) shows the proportion and measure of a male figure from the front and back. One of the most famous on the subject of #ArtisticAnatomy, this book was printed again and again into the late 17th century.

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