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Patient Pamphlet for Piedmont TB Sanatorium, VA, 1940

February 24, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on the Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium for

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Inez Holmes, Nurse and Veteran

November 11, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on World War II veteran and

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Poster illustrated with a cartoon of a small silhouette of a solder in front of a large drawing of a civilian man.

“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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A four story brick building with a covered porch on a wide dirt road and a wooden stockade fence to one side.

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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A cartoon of a man lying in a bed labeled home.

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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<em>Challenge: Science Against Cancer</em> or How to Make a Movie in the Mid-Twentieth Century

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"X-Rays" (1926) is a self-portrait etched by American artist John Sloan (1871-1951). In the scene, he holds a cup of barium while undergoing an upper gastrointestinal fluoroscopic study under the care of two radiologists. Sloan, a prominent exponent of the "Ashcan School," sought inspiration from everyday scenes and activities of modern life, such as the taking of X rays, rather than landscape, nudes and the other traditional subjects of academic art.
In recognition of #AmericanArtistAppreciationMonth, the Circulating Now blog interviewed artist Rachael Que Vargas this week about her project to create life-size mosaics based on illustrations from NLM's hand-colored copy of Eustachi's Tabulae anatomicae (Rome, 1783). Learn more about how the project got started, her techniques, and what her study of the images has revealed in "Anatomy Set in Stone" (🔗 Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/Zs1sPRY).
This photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken in 1940 as he stood on the steps of Building 1 and delivered a speech to dedicate the new Bethesda campus of the National Institute of Health.
We're adding a little mystery on this #ManuscriptMonday. These drawings are from an anatomical sketchbook created in New Harmony, Indiana in 1830. Each drawing is signed with the pseudonym "Clorion."
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.

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