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Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614

November 5, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data, Series Leave a comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Caterina Agostini, who discusses a recent acquisition at the NLM History of Medicine Division’s collection:

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Isabella Michal and colleagues pose in front of the installed Politics of Yellow Fever banners.

Making Exhibition Connections: New College of Florida

October 15, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Guests, Making Exhibition Connections, Series One 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: Learning About Zika

June 18, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Revealing Data, Series Leave a comment

NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.

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Revealing Data: Dr. James Herrick and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

June 9, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Revealing Data One comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal

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Seeking Leek Island: An Interview with Pamela Robertson

May 28, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Prints & Photographs, Series, The Great War Leave a comment

In 2019, Circulating Now published two blog posts about a scrapbook NLM had recently acquired. One post related the history

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Making Exhibition Connections: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

March 3, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Guests, Making Exhibition Connections, Series One comment

Francisco Fajardo and Jorge Perez talk about hosting Surviving and Thriving.

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‘Barbed-wire disease’ during the First World War

January 16, 2020 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests, The Great War 5 comments

By Matthew Stibbe ~ Even before the guns fell silent in Northern France and Belgium on November 11, 1918, the

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Revealing Data: Charting Pain in 1879

January 9, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data, Series 2 comments

By Krista Stracka ~ Rollin R. Gregg’s Illustrated Repertory of Pains in the Chest, Sides and Back published in 1879,

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Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey

November 12, 2019 Circulating Now Collections, Prints & Photographs, Series, The Great War 13 comments

By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek

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Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing

November 7, 2019 Circulating Now Collections, Prints & Photographs, Series, The Great War 8 comments

By Aliya Rahman ~ Across the globe, World War I—known by contemporaries as the “The War to End All Wars”

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