Circulating Now – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections

The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures, 1922

Circulating Now — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:00:28 +0000

By Sander L. Gilman ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), Arts

“Human bullets,” A Russo-Japanese War Photo Album

Circulating Now — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:00:49 +0000

By Alexander Bay ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This essay takes a look

Elizabeth Blackwell: “That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine” Part II

Circulating Now — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:00:49 +0000

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s birth. As the first woman to receive an M.D. degree

Elizabeth Blackwell: “That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine” Part I

Circulating Now — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:00:47 +0000

As the first woman to receive an MD degree from an American medical school, Blackwell overcame many obstacles and laid a foundation for American women physicians.

Dental Cartoons, ca. 1945

Circulating Now — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:00:47 +0000

By Alyssa Picard ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Will you be able to

A “Commentary” on Lambertus on Aquinas on Aristotle

Circulating Now — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:00:29 +0000

By Walton O. Schalick ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Jorge of Burgos, the

First Science—Anatomy, 1829–30

Circulating Now — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:00:20 +0000

By Michael Sappol and Eva Åhrén ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Once upon

Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Flyers, ca. 1940

Circulating Now — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:06 +0000

By Liping Bu ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Tuberculosis carried a social stigma

On Latin and the Rooster in Medicine

Circulating Now — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:00:48 +0000

By Atalanta Grant-Suttie ~ Latin has been part of the fabric of communication in the Western World for centuries. It

Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010)

Circulating Now — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:00:12 +0000

By Megan O’Hern ~ A new archival collection, the Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010) is now available at the National Library

Revealing Data: The 1918 Flu Never Topped War

Circulating Now — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:00:18 +0000

By Ashley Bowen ~ Late February and early March marks the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu’s appearance in the

An Anatomical Essay on the Movement of the Heart

Circulating Now — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:00:19 +0000

By Jonathan Sawday ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. William Harvey’s De motu cordis

Revealing Data: Collecting Data about TB, ca. 1900

Circulating Now — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:00:46 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ In the summer of 1901, Elizabeth Blauvelt, a Johns Hopkins medical student, prepared a summary

Dr. John Money Discovered

Circulating Now — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:00:55 +0000

By Elizabeth Newton ~ The vast collections of the National Library of Medicine encompass a startling variety of topics and

Gassed!

Circulating Now — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:00:35 +0000

By Susan Speaker ~ World War I is notable for the size of the armies involved, the huge number of

High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM

Circulating Now — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:00:20 +0000

By Sally Howe ~ People today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone

Reflections on History and Harry Potter

Circulating Now — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:00:57 +0000

Photo by E.D.D.W., NLM

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First in Human: The Trials of Building 10

Circulating Now — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:00:28 +0000

By Rebecca Warlow ~ A new documentary, First in Human: The Trials of Building 10, produced by McGee Media for

A New History of NLM: The Library in the 21st Century

Circulating Now — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:00:24 +0000

National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, (left) swears in Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, as the 19th director of the Library on September 12, 2016. Brennan’s sister Jean Flatley McGuire is holding a copy of the US Constitution. Brennan was the first woman and first nurse appointed as director. Hundreds witnessed the historic occasion, a “great day for the National Institutes of Health,” as Collins stated. (Courtesy of Ernie Branson and the National Institutes of Health.)

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A New History of NLM: Celebrating 150 Years of Public Service and Looking to the Future

Circulating Now — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:00:57 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This is the eighth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book

A New History of NLM: Information Age

Circulating Now — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:00:43 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the seventh post in a series of nine which serializes the new book

A New History of NLM: A New Name and A New Home

Circulating Now — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:00:28 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the sixth post in a series of nine which

A New History of NLM: World War II and Relocation

Circulating Now — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:00:07 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ This is the fifth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book

A New History of NLM: The “Old Red Brick”

Circulating Now — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:00:44 +0000

By Anne Rothfeld ~ This is the fourth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US

A New History of NLM: Civil War and the Era of John Shaw Billings

Circulating Now — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:00:52 +0000

In this letter to a potential donor, written on May 13, 1872, John Shaw Billings explains his ambition for the library: “I am trying to form a great national Medical Library here—a work of great labor—which I am satisfied can only be done under government auspices. We have now about 18,000 vols—on our shelves in the fireproof building of the Army Med Museum. Catalogued and open to the profession—and it is now on a proper basis as the Medical Section of the National or Congressional Library. I want to make it as complete as it can be made and the great difficulty of course is to get old pamphlets—and to complete our files of journals.”

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A New History of NLM: Origins and Early Years

Circulating Now — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:00:34 +0000

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ This is the second post in a series of nine which serializes the new book

Introducing A New Illustrated History of NLM

Circulating Now — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:00:13 +0000

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Ken Koyle ~ This is the first post in a series of nine which serializes

Pop Culture Meets NLM Historical Collections: Harry Potter’s World

Circulating Now — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:00:41 +0000

By Nicole Orphanides ~ In 1997, 10-year-old Harry Potter waved his wand for the first time and filled the minds

Malaria Pinup Calendars, 1945

Circulating Now — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:00:25 +0000

By Mike “Sport” Murphy Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. To young American GIs waging

Anti-Germ Warfare Campaign Posters, ca. 1952

Circulating Now — Thu, 04 May 2017 17:30:30 +0000

A Patriotic Health Movement was launched throughout China: the Communist Party mobilized the masses to eliminate pests to prevent disease and contribute to the war effort.

Mercy Street’s Mansion House Hospital

Circulating Now — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:00:15 +0000

By Stephen J. Greenberg Mercy Street, the popular PBS series now entering its second season, tells the complicated story of