{"id":16272,"date":"2019-05-02T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:28:36","slug":"scan-on-demand-health-and-how-to-keep-it-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2019\/05\/02\/scan-on-demand-health-and-how-to-keep-it-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Scan-on-Demand: Home Health, 1903"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Krista Stracka, Ginny Roth and Anne Rothfeld ~<\/em><\/p>\n

The National Library of Medicine\u2019s Scan-on-Demand<\/a> program provides the public with offsite access to digitized copies of historical medical materials published before 1924. Hundreds of requests have been fulfilled for users all over the world with research interests ranging from the earliest printed works of epidemiology to the detection of quackery in the medical profession. Depending on the condition of the item, the turnaround time averages about 1 or 2 weeks. These digitized copies are later also made accessible to the public through NLM Digital Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The very first request to be filled through Scan-on-Demand was for Walter Camp\u2019s Handbook on Health and How to Keep It<\/a><\/em>, published in 1920. In this manual, the \u201cFather of American Football<\/a>\u201d offered his advice on exercise and physical fitness, including a warning against tight-fitting clothing, collars, and shoes. This same warning was also addressed in another health manual that was scanned by request in 2017. Instead of tight collars, De Gezondheid in Huis<\/a><\/em>, in 1903, warned against the dangers of tight corsets among the pages of this text on family health education in the Dutch home. Tucked in the back pocket of this volume is a vibrantly colored anatomical \u201cflap\u201d book that served to educate readers about the inner workings of the human body in a three-dimensional, interactive form. This paper manikin depicts an adult male with an artfully-groomed handlebar mustache. With a lift of each flap, the reader simulates a dissection that reveals the deeper layers of the muscles, organs, and bones. To avoid any potential damage to these intricate parts and delicate layers, the decision was made at the time to exclude the supplement from the digitized copy.\u00a0 Here is a quick demonstration of the insert in the 1903 book:<\/p>\n