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A loaded jeep drives onto a wooden ferry barge to cross a low river.

An Epidemiological Expedition, 1954

December 1, 2022 Circulating Now

By Paul Theerman ~ Reconnaissance for Yellow Fever in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan, 1954 is one of the several dozen films that Dr. Telford

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Young men put covers on metal drums.

Filariasis in British Guiana, 1963

September 1, 2022 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol ~ Originally published on Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM. Filariasis, a parasitic disease typically found in tropical areas, is

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Men digging a ditch marked with string.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Discovering the Cause of Yellow Fever

June 7, 2019 Circulating Now

By Tannaz Motevalli, Sarah Eilers, Laura Hartman, and Erika Mills In the previous blog post “Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research Before

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A street map of New Orleans.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

June 5, 2019 Circulating Now

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

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Mosquito in biting position.

Trapping Mosquitoes at Home

May 9, 2019 Circulating Now

Mosquito control education materials from the early 20th century—from changing the landscape to chemical insecticides.

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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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An illustration of wo men dueling with swords under Spanish moss hung oak trees.

Medical Identity and Ethnicity in 19th-Century New Orleans

August 25, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Amy Wiese Forbes spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Medical Identity and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.” Dr. Forbes is Associate

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Dr. Samuel Mudd, Prisoner and Physician

April 14, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robert Summers who has been researching, writing, and lecturing on his ancestor Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s role in the Lincoln

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Celebrating Walter Reed

September 13, 2013 circulating now

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth Today would have been Major Walter Reed’s 162nd birthday.  Reed, shown in this picture with his daughter Emilie

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

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis 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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