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Making Exhibition Connections: Spokane County Library District

December 10, 2020 Circulating Now

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present

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Isabella Michal and colleagues pose in front of the installed Politics of Yellow Fever banners.

Making Exhibition Connections: New College of Florida

October 15, 2020 Circulating Now

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present

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Epidemiological map of global Zika

Revealing Data: Learning About Zika

June 18, 2020 Circulating Now

NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.

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People gather outside a German Measles vaccination clinic.

NLM Exhibitions and Epidemics

April 30, 2020 Circulating Now

By Patricia Tuohy~ I am not an historian of medicine. However, many of the historians of medicine with whom I’ve worked have wryly talked about

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Men digging a ditch marked with string.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Discovering the Cause of Yellow Fever

June 7, 2019 Circulating Now

By Tannaz Motevalli, Sarah Eilers, Laura Hartman, and Erika Mills In the previous blog post “Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research Before

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A street map of New Orleans.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

June 5, 2019 Circulating Now

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

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Mosquito in biting position.

Trapping Mosquitoes at Home

May 9, 2019 Circulating Now

Mosquito control education materials from the early 20th century—from changing the landscape to chemical insecticides.

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Engravings of two white men in 18th century clothes in profile.

Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America

January 17, 2019 Circulating Now

An interview with the curator of the newest exhibition at NLM, which explores how Philadelphia’s anxious residents responded to the epidemic using an uneasy blend of science and politics.

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This #17thCentury book is getting new sewn endbands. We chose green because there was evidence that the previous endbands, which were entirely missing except for a few stray threads, were also green. We went with a slightly lighter shade of green to avoid any confusion between these and the historic endbands.
Happy Independence Day! Don't forget to #CelebrateSafely. According to the CPSC, the safest way to enjoy fireworks is to watch the professional displays. We'll leave these #fireworks in the #18thCentury!
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."

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