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NLM Collection Tour: Forensic Medicine

January 18, 2024 Circulating Now About Us, Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Exhibitions, Films & Videos, NLM Collection Tour, Prints & Photographs, Rare Books & Journals 2 comments

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about Forensic Medicine

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Making the Greatest Medical Library in America

December 21, 2023 Circulating Now About Us, Collections, Exhibitions, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, Rare Books & Journals, Series Leave a comment

By Erika Mills ~ On a quest to bring together and catalog the world’s medical knowledge, John Shaw Billings, an

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Making Exhibition Connections: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

October 5, 2023 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Guests, Making Exhibition Connections, Series Leave a comment

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions.

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Revealing Data: Visualizations in Historical Collections

July 13, 2023 Circulating Now Collections, Revealing Data One comment

By Adam Korengold ~ Data visualization is a new and quickly evolving discipline. While the modern form of the practice

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Revealing Data: Mortality in Mexico City during the 1890 Influenza Epidemic

June 8, 2023 Circulating Now Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, and Sydney Murphy from Virginia Tech to share their research into

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NLM Collection Tour: Climate and Health

April 20, 2023 kdunne02 About Us, Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Exhibitions, Films & Videos, NLM Collection Tour, Prints & Photographs, Rare Books & Journals One comment

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about Climate and Health.

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Apgar lecturing on resuscitation of newborns. Her visual aid is a poster showing the key points of the Apgar score, using the "APGAR" mnemonic, and accompanied by a frequently-used photo of Apgar in surgical gown, testing the reflexes of a newborn, which she holds suspended by its heels.

Revealing Data: Reflections on the APGAR Score

March 9, 2023 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Exhibitions, Revealing Data Leave a comment

By Kelly West ~ When I consider that I was once a sickly, premature baby brought into this world while

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Urbane Bass: Doctor and Hero

February 9, 2023 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Prints & Photographs, The Great War One comment

Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech on the life and service of World War I Distinguished Service Cross recipient Dr. Urbane Bass. 

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NLM Collection Tour: Aging

September 22, 2022 Circulating Now About Us, Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Exhibitions, Films & Videos, NLM Collection Tour, Prints & Photographs, Rare Books & Journals 3 comments

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about aging.

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Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

July 14, 2022 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their

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