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Woodcut of a woman sowing on a machine in a room full of folded cloth, a nurse stands by while men discuss a parcel.

Hosting the Representative of Flanders

August 2, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick The richness of Flemish history came alive here at the NLM recently, when we were honored to host a visit of

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A man in a lab coat gives a tour outside on the NIH campus to a group of people.

Hosting the Ambassador of Belgium

March 12, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick Belgium—founding member of the European Union and a country whose heritage is rich in so many ways, and especially in the

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Happy Birthday, Andreas Vesalius!

December 31, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North Today we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (December 31, 1514–October 15, 1564), one of the most

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NLM’s Unique De Fabrica

December 16, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North and Laura Hartman ~ This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best

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A sheet of three identical stamps featuring a reproduction of the portrait of Vesalius from his De Fabrca.

Andreas Vesalius in Stamps

September 23, 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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Illustration from Vesalius's De Fabrica showing Vesalius conducting a dissection for an audience.

Illustrating De Fabrica

July 8, 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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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 of the title page of the text, in Latin.

Andreas Vesalius at 500

December 31, 2013 Circulating Now

By Michael North ~ Today marks the 499th birthday of the great, 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, born on December 31, 1514. Throughout 2014 Circulating Now

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In recognition of C. Everett Koop's high visibility in the public media and his advocacy of child health and safety, several toy manufacturers created dolls in his likeness. For #NationalDollDay, we are sharing a photograph of Dr. Koop holding one of these look-alike dolls.
We're sending you this early #20thCentury postcard for today's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesPostcard. The front features a photo-multigraph of a nurse created by photographer Lucien Gaulard of Marseille. Using a "trick mirror" technique invented in the early 1890s by James B. Shaw in Atlantic City, Gaulard created a single photograph of the same nurse seated in five positions. If you look closely, you can see the two positions in the back were carefully scraped away by hand to feature only the forward-, left-, and right-facing positions.
In 1927 Carl Hubert Sattler (1880–1953?), a Königsberg physician, produced an inexpensive set of stereoscope cards for the diagnosis and treatment of juvenile strabismus at home, subsequently widely translated and reprinted. The cards come in pairs that, viewed through a stereoscope, make a composite picture. NLM holds an edition published in 1942. Learn more in "'What do you See?': Stereoscopic Pictures, 1942," the latest post from the Circulating Now blog (🔗 link in bio or https://loom.ly/I8iwAPk).
This illustration of subarachnoid injections of the human brain is from the first volume of Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes ("Studies in the Anatomy of the Nervous System and Connective Tissue"). Finished over seven years, this groundbreaking project features the most detailed illustrations of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves of its time. Read more about the work in the latest post from the Circulating Now blog (🔗 Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/tCnhevc).
E.coli meets penicillin in this clip from The Motion Picture in Medical Education, produced in the early 1960s. As the antibiotic diffuses, movement of the E.coli rods slows and they become distended. This film includes excerpts from multiple medical teaching titles, the aim being to demonstrate the effectiveness of motion pictures as a pedagogical tool. It’s one of several hundred legacy films in the NLM collection digitally preserved in the past 18 months.
Born #OTD in 1635 (July 18 according to the old Julian calendar), Robert Hooke was an English artist, biologist, physicist, engineer, architect, and inventor, but his crowning glory was his book Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. First published 1665, with a second publishing in 1667, Micrographia was a masterpiece that provided an exquisitely illustrated introduction to the previously unknown microscopic world. The book contains large etchings of insects and plant matter in high detail, inspired by his view through a microscope. The etchings provide insight into the ornate body structures of flies (Image 1), fleas (Image 2), and gnats (Image 3), that are not visible to the naked eye.

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