An interview with John Mathew, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his work on cultural memories of pandemics in India.
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First Aid on the Battlefield, 1869
By Mark Harrison ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 1870–71 the Prussian war machine tore through France with ruthless
Edward Jenner and “the happy immunity”
By Aliya Rahman ~ August is back-to-school month. While many of us are booking last-minute vacations or scrambling to purchase tickets to that almost-sold-out concert,