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Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons

February 16, 2023 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ African Americans have always practiced medicine, as physicians, healers, midwives, or “root doctors.” Early black physicians became skilled practitioners, trained generations

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A triangle of cloth with a printed image of a realisticly rendered scene of injured soldiers bandaged in various ways.

First Aid on the Battlefield, 1869

July 22, 2021 Circulating Now

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

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Four physicians examining a post-op male patient.

Joe Wilder: Surgeon, Artist, Athlete

October 22, 2019 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Madeline Stern Wilder, who shares with us the story and work of her husband, noted artist and surgeon Dr. Joseph

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A patient in surgical headgear reads by the bedside of another patient.

Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved

August 2, 2018 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington

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Photograph of Bernadine Healy standing in a white lab coat holding lab equipment.

Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010)

March 13, 2018 Circulating Now

By Megan O’Hern ~ A new archival collection, the Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010) is now available at the National Library of Medicine. Though she was

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Ravitch oversees the work of two men in an operating training room.

Mark M. Ravitch: A Surgeon’s Surgeon

October 25, 2016 Circulating Now

By  James Labosier and John Rees A new archival collection, The Mark M. Ravitch Papers, 1932-1989, is now available at the National Library of Medicine

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President Johnson takes papers from DeBakey as they stand beside a podium.

Apply Now! A New History Fellowship at NLM

June 23, 2016 Circulating Now

Apply now for the Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine.

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Michael DeBakey and surgical team at work in an operating room.

A Decade of Phenomenal Progress in Heart Surgery

February 12, 2016 Circulating Now

By Susan Speaker In March of 1959, Dr. Michael DeBakey testified in the U.S. House of Representatives about the phenomenal progress made against cardiovascular disease

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Man seated at a desk with a model of the heart on the desk.

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015

May 1, 2015 alinelink

By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.,

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An illustration of two men working on a body.

Percivall Pott: Orthopedics and Occupational Health

January 6, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North Today we commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Percivall Pott (1714–1788), an English surgeon who is known as one

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"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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Join us on Thursday, March 30th at 2:00 PM ET for the next NLM History Talk! Soha Bayoumi, PhD of Johns Hopkins University will discuss “COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic." This talk will will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting (https://loom.ly/ILbAYPM).
For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.

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