{"id":28457,"date":"2024-02-08T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=28457"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:39:11","slug":"the-medical-bulletin-and-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/02\/08\/the-medical-bulletin-and-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Bulletin and So Much More"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kristina Dunne ~ Last fall, we shared news<\/a> about further progress of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in making freely available for research, in PubMed Central (PMC)<\/a>, hundreds of back issues of historically significant biomedical journals<\/a>, along with their human- and computer-readable citations. Since then, our NLM colleagues have added 22,000+ more articles in PMC, encompassing more than a dozen journal titles spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and falling under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark<\/a>. As with previously-released titles, PMC makes available for this additional corpus machine-readable full-text and metadata, including titles, authors, and any affiliations, as well as volume, issue, publication date, pagination, and license information. Such article-level digitization also enables us to link data\u2014that is, to connect individual and associated articles with corresponding catalog records and sometimes even with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)<\/a>\u2014to improve discoverability and use of the articles in research.<\/p>\n Historically significant biomedical journals newly added to PMC<\/strong><\/p>\n Among these titles is a series of World War I-era American journals published in Paris\u2014namely Medical Bulletin<\/em><\/a>, War Medicine, Surgery and Hygiene<\/em><\/a>, and War Medicine<\/em><\/a>\u2014which will be of particular interest to scholars of war, medicine, and society.<\/p>\n Alexander Lambert, Chief Surgeon of the American Red Cross in France, inaugurated the Medical Bulletin<\/em> with an inspiring Announcement<\/a>, explaining that:<\/p>\n “To \u2018gaze humanely out upon human kind\u2019 and to act accordingly have always been the aims of the Red Cross. From the beginning of its existence it has endeavored to give help to the wounded of all nations. As the conception of this work has developed, so the breadth of its activities has enormously increased. From care in war it has extended its endeavors to the relief of sufferers from disasters and from epidemics of disease in time of peace.”<\/p>\n Moreover, Lambert stated:<\/p>\n “As a further development of this humanitarian service, the American Red Cross, during the present great war, is endeavoring to extend aid to both military and civil populations alike. No one has ever questioned its right, even its duty, to care for the wounded soldier, or the sick soldier, or the one permanently disabled. The present commissioners of the Red Cross in France are prepared to go farther, for they believe that it is their duty to endeavor to assist, where their help is desired, in the scientific research of the medical men caring for the American troops, that by such aid in scientific work the troops may receive more quickly the benefit of increased medical and surgical knowledge, both in the prevention of disease and in its treatment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In addition to establishing a network of laboratories to support such research, Lambert explained further to readers that the Red Cross proposed to \u201cdisseminate the knowledge thus obtained more effectively\u201d through periodic meetings of researchers, publishing their reports on the latest methods of treatment for war injuries and diseases, and establishing a library to collect and help preserve these reports.<\/p>\n Over the next two years, as hostilities of the Great War ceased, demobilization from Europe proceeded, and nations continued to come to grips with the human toll of the conflict, the Medical Bulletin<\/em> and its successor titles delivered on Lambert\u2019s original proposal. Articles published in the first volume<\/a> of the Medical Bulletin<\/em> alone reflect the diversity of subjects pertaining to surgery and wound and disease treatments, and means of disseminating research findings.<\/p>\n This word cloud offers a snapshot of the contents of the first volume based on its table of contents. It displays keywords based on their approximate proportion to their frequency in the titles of articles.<\/p>\n
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