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Botanical Illustration of the Larkspur plant including blue flower, thin leaved foliage, and seedpod.

July Blooms

July 8, 2015 circulating now

A botanical illustration of the flower, fruit, and seed of the Larkspur, the July birth flower, and one of the plants featured in Elizabeth Blackwell’s 1737 book A Curious Herbal.

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A banner reading "UUU are Great Marshall" hung in a hallway.

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—David Serlin

March 20, 2015 Circulating Now

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at

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A screenshot from the turning the pages interactive shown highlighting the UUU cell on the chart.

A Tribute to Nirenberg—George Thoma

March 19, 2015 Circulating Now

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH

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Lindberg speaks at a podium in front of the entrance to the Against the Odds exhibition at the National Library of Medicine.

Donald Lindberg: A Leadership Legacy for the Future

March 5, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick At the end of this month, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of the National Library of Medicine since 1984, will retire

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A complex hand drawn and colored chart labeled in Asian script and featuring many small boxes filled with text and stylized illustrations of a long green snake and a man with a snakes body holding a round red object in his hand.

Mongolian Manuscript comes to Turning the Pages

November 13, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North The latest addition to the Turning the Pages collection is a Mongolian manuscript entitled, Manual of Astrology and Divination. This colorfully

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A woodcut illustration of large number of saws, knives, probes, scissors and other tools laid out on a table.

Andreas Vesalius and De Fabrica

April 9, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

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Detail from a botanical illustration of a red poppy flower.

The Red Poppy: A Curious Herbal

August 30, 2013 circulating now

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth ~ This image, rightly called “Red Poppy,” appears in the eighteenth century herbal  by Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) titled

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three engravings of unicorns

Medicine, Museums, and Unicorns

July 23, 2013 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ One of the fun parts of working at the reference desk in the History of Medicine Division at the National

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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.

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