{"id":23142,"date":"2022-02-10T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=23142"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:16:47","slug":"nlm-collections-tour-matters-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2022\/02\/10\/nlm-collections-tour-matters-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"NLM Collection Tour: Matters of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical materials in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collection. Today we are featuring materials related to the heart.<\/p>\n

These materials document the history of social and scientific efforts to understand human anatomy and the health of the human heart. They preserve the stories of those whose lives were shaped by diseases affecting the heart and efforts to improve heart health.<\/p>\n

NLM staff have selected these highlights for you to explore. We welcome questions! Use the comment feature below to share your thoughts.<\/p>\n

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Selections from NLM Digital Collections<\/a><\/h1>\n

NLM Digital Collections<\/a> is the National Library of Medicine’s free online repository of biomedical resources including books, manuscripts, and still and moving images.<\/p>\n

Images<\/h2>\n

Images from the History of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0(IHM), within\u00a0NLM Digital Collections<\/a>, features multiple topics on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease.<\/p>\n

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Two children, a boy and a girl dressed as a nurse and a soldier, are dancing, ca. 1918 Zwerdling Postcard Collection National Library of Medicine #101611686 <\/div> <\/div>
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Open-heart surgery, NIH, 1955 Photo by R. Perry National Library of Medicine #101450983 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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\u201cA Million Americans Have Heart Attacks Every Year.\u201d, ca 1985 National Library of Medicine #101453984 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Heart, Circulatory System, and Veins, 1933 National Library of Medicine #101560144 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Explore many more related images in NLM Digital Collections under these search terms:<\/p>\n

Heart Surgery<\/a> |\u00a0Heart Disease Prevention<\/a> | Valentines<\/a> | Anatomy<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also explore public domain images from the NLM prints and photographs collection on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Books and Journals<\/h2>\n

The National Library of Medicine has digitized tens of thousands<\/a> of books containing a wide variety of historical information about the anatomy, health, and disease of the heart.<\/p>\n

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  • Isagogae Breves<\/em><\/a> by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi. Second edition. Bologna, 1523.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Jacopo Berengario da Carpi was born about 1460, the son of a surgeon. While young, he was a student of the noted printer and editor, Aldus Manutius. He devoted a great deal of his time to anatomy and prided himself on having dissected several hundred bodies. He died in Ferrara in about 1530 having amassed a considerable fortune, which he bequeathed to the Duca Alphonso I of Ferrara, husband of Lucrezia Borgia.<\/p>\n

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    Isagogae Breves by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi. Second edition. Bologna, 1523. National Library of Medicine #2222034R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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    Isagogae Breves by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi. Second edition. Bologna, 1523. National Library of Medicine #2222034R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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    Isagogae Breves by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi. Second edition. Bologna, 1523. National Library of Medicine #2222034R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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    Isagogae Breves by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi. Second edition. Bologna, 1523. National Library of Medicine #2222034R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

    Berengario was an eager and tireless observer, and he is considered to be the author of the first anatomical illustrations made from nature. This second edition of Isagogae breves<\/em>, has an extra four illustrations of the heart and two of the brain, with some variations in the woodcuts showing the muscles. Learn more in Historical Anatomies<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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    • The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects<\/em><\/a> by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923 National Library of Medicine #38420750R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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      The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923 National Library of Medicine #38420750R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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      The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923 National Library of Medicine #38420750R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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      The Heart: Its Physiology, Pathology and Clinical Aspects by Selian Neuhof. Philadelphia, 1923 National Library of Medicine #38420750R <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

      As may be seen by the Table of Contents, many practical questions continually arising in the practitioner\u2019s and student\u2019s daily routine are considered in this work, and an effort is made to meet many of his perplexing problems in cardiology. Therapeusis, diagnosis with and without instruments, graphic methods, arrhythmias, physiology, cardiac disease (including syphilis), cardiac neurosis, the heart in various extra-cardiac conditions, diet, exercise, etc., are fully dealt with. Embryology, physiology, pathology and the conduction system are given proper emphasis. The newer viewpoints of cardiac function in terms of respiration, blood oxygenation and blood chemistry have also been incorporated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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      • American Contributors to Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery<\/em><\/a> by Bruce Fye. Bethesda, MD, 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        \"Cover<\/a>This booklet was issued in conjunction with an exhibit on “American Contributions to Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery” at the National Library of Medicine. September-December 1986. The exhibit was prepared by the Library’s history of Medicine Division with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute as a companion activity to the X World Congress on Cardiology, held in Washington, DC, in September 1986. The assistance of W Bruce Fye, M.D., and of the American College of Cardiology in preparing the exhibit is gratefully acknowledged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

        Historical Films<\/h2>\n

        \u201cThe energy expended by the heart in the course of a whole day could, if he were not in a hurry, lift a person weighing 150 pounds to the very top of the Empire State Building.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

        This we learn from Wonder Engine of the Body (the Human Heart)<\/a>, a 1951 film presenting both animated and live action sequences of heart activity. With the help of mechanical analogies, this title, produced by Bray Studios in concert with the American Heart Association, gives a vivid conception of the magnitude\u2014and magnificence\u2014of the human heart’s work.<\/p>\n