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“Fit to Fight”: Home front Army doctors and VD during WW I

October 18, 2018 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ After the United States entered the World War in April 1917, Dr. Wilbur Sawyer, a 37-year-old public health administrator with

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Making Exhibition Connections: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

May 22, 2018 Circulating Now

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

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Behind the Scenes on Mercy Street

January 26, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now readers recently learned about a unique register of patients from Mansion House Hospital dating from the 1860s and 1870s, which NLM holds in

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Mercy Street’s Mansion House Hospital

January 19, 2017 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg Mercy Street, the popular PBS series now entering its second season, tells the complicated story of a U.S. Army hospital during

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Thanksgiving DeLuxe, 1918

November 26, 2014 Circulating Now

The holiday season often brought out the very best in the spirit and practice of WWI military hospital magazines…”Many were heard to remark: “Well, after this I can safely say I’ve eaten one square meal in the army.””

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