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{"id":41648,"date":"2024-10-29T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=41648"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:15:51","slug":"ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/10\/29\/ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostwriter: \u201cBy the Spirit of Benjamin Rush\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Krista Stracka ~<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41655\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41655\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/10\/29\/ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush\/titlepage_psychopathy_101694343\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=904%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"904,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing, 1890<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101694343<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=226%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=771%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-41655\" title=\"The Spirit of Benjamin Rush\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=400%2C531&ssl=1\" alt=\"A spooky image of a printed title page.\" width=\"400\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=226%2C300&ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=768%2C1019&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=840%2C1115&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Titlepage_Psychopathy_101694343.jpg?w=904&ssl=1 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em>, 1890<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/discovery\/search?query=creator,contains,Rush,%20Benjamin,%201746-1813%20(Spirit),AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101694343<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All was quiet in the library on that day in 2019. There were no sounds of rattling chains or floating specters to be seen, but it was the day I first encountered a \u201cspirit author\u201d as a cataloger. As I turned to the title page of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Psychopathy\/I2RAAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1\"><em>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em><\/a><em>, \u201c<\/em>the Spirit of Dr. Benjamin Rush\u201d suddenly jumped off the page at me as the author of the 1890 publication, over 70 years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>The National Library of Medicine does hold multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,Rush,%20Benjamin,%201746-1813&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&facet=creator,include,Rush%20Benjamin%201746%201813&offset=0&came_from=pagination_2_1\">works<\/a>\u00a0by Rush, who, like <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2019\/01\/17\/politics-of-yellow-fever-in-alexander-hamiltons-america\/\">Hamilton is considered a founding father<\/a>. These works include his <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.upenn.edu\/benjamin-rush\/Rush_and_Mental_Health\">landmark pamphlet<\/a> on addiction entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/2569021R\"><em>An Enquiry into the Effects of Spiritous Liquors Upon the Human Body<\/em><\/a>, however, there is only <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/discovery\/search?query=creator,contains,Rush,%20Benjamin,%201746-1813%20(Spirit),AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0\">one book<\/a> attributed to his spirit in the collection. The book presents a course of eight lessons on the \u201caction of the spirit upon and through the human organism. The lessons are accompanied by a series of diagrams and charts \u201cdrawn by the author.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41654\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/10\/29\/ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush\/portrait-of-cora-l-v-richmond-from-barrett-book_courtesy-library-of-congress\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?fit=409%2C621&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"409,621\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Portrait of Cora L.V. Richmond from Barrett book_Courtesy Library of Congress\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Portrait of Cora in Life Work of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, 1895<br \/>\nCourtesy Library of Congress<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?fit=198%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?fit=409%2C621&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-41654\" title=\"Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?resize=400%2C607&ssl=1\" alt=\"A book illustration of a young woman wearing a cross.\" width=\"400\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?w=409&ssl=1 409w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Portrait-of-Cora-L.V.-Richmond-from-Barrett-book_Courtesy-Library-of-Congress.png?resize=198%2C300&ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Cora in Life Work of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, 1895<br \/><em>Courtesy Library of Congress<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How could a spirit write and illustrate such a book from beyond the grave? According to the title page, it was made possible \u201cthrough the mediumship of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/science\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/richmond-cora-linn-victoria1840-1923\">Richmond<\/a> was one of the most famous trance mediums of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/spiritualism\/ataglance\/glance.shtml\">Spiritualism movement<\/a> which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697\/\">originated<\/a> in upstate New York in the mid-19th century and centered on the belief that the dead could communicate with the living. In her book <a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t78s5zz24&seq=7\"><em>My Experiences While Out of My Body and My Return After Many Days<\/em><\/a>, Richmond explained that since childhood, her spirit could temporarily depart from her physical body and allow spirit guides to communicate their knowledge to interested audiences through speech and writing. The preface in <em>Psycopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em> states that the \u201cdiagrams and charts have been drawn by the spirit author, through the hand that is now controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41652\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/10\/29\/ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush\/plate-2_psycopathy_101694343\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=813%2C1080&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"813,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Plate 2_Psycopathy_101694343\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Plate 2 in Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing, 1890<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101694343<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=226%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=771%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-41652\" title=\"Organism\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=400%2C531&ssl=1\" alt=\"Concentric circles labeled from the inside out spirit consciousness, sub-volition, volition, and a priori consciousness\" width=\"400\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=226%2C300&ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=768%2C1020&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-2_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?w=813&ssl=1 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plate 2 in <em>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em>, 1890<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/discovery\/search?query=creator,contains,Rush,%20Benjamin,%201746-1813%20(Spirit),AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101694343<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his 1895 biography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/gdcmassbookdig.lifeworkofmrscor00barr\/?st=gallery&c=160\"><em>Life Work of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond<\/em><\/a>, spiritualist Harrison D. Barrett reveals that the process behind the scenes that allowed the creation of the book by the Spirit of Benjamin Rush included additional \u201chelpers\u201d\u2014both of Earth and the spirit realm. After they were married in 1878, William Richmond learned shorthand to record a series of lectures Cora delivered while in a trance. The transcriptions then underwent conversion to a manuscript. On page 554 Barrett states, \u201cThe guides revised and condensed the lessons on the Soul from Mr. Richmond’s reports, and Benjamin Rush controlled the medium to revise the manuscript and make the original drawings from which the plates in <em>Psychopathy<\/em> were made, using hand and brain with equal facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41653\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/10\/29\/ghostwriter-by-the-spirit-of-benjamin-rush\/plate-5_psycopathy_101694343\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=904%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"904,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Plate 5_Psycopathy_101694343\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Plate 5 in Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing, 1890<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101694343<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=226%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?fit=771%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-41653\" title=\"Mental Aura, Sphere of Sub-Volition\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=400%2C531&ssl=1\" alt=\"A book illustration of a mans figure showing the nervous system and large red and blue rings indicating spheres of aura and sub-volition.\" width=\"400\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=226%2C300&ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=768%2C1019&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?resize=840%2C1115&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Plate-5_Psycopathy_101694343.jpg?w=904&ssl=1 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plate 5 in <em>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em>, 1890<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/discovery\/search?query=creator,contains,Rush,%20Benjamin,%201746-1813%20(Spirit),AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101694343<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Barrett, the editing, proofreading, and preparation for printing was also handled by another spirit guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Memoir_of_Adin_Augustus_Ballou\/kZIZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover\">Adin Augustus Ballou<\/a>. Augustus, as he was known, was the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adin_Ballou\">Adin Ballou<\/a> who founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hopedale_Community\">Hopedale Community<\/a> in Massachusetts where Richmond first demonstrated her abilities. At age 13, Augustus ran a semi-monthly children\u2019s paper called <em>The Mammoth<\/em> and worked as the paper\u2019s printer, proprietor, and editor for the two years that it ran. At age 15, he was placed in charge of the Hopedale Printing Office. At age 19, he was infected with influenza and succumbed to the disease after nine days. Barrett describes the role Augustus played in publication decades later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026 if any supervision was necessary, any proof-reading required, Adin Augustus Ballou has been the ever willing spirit to perform that task, and taking control of the medium has with ease and facility employed printers’ signs, (which the medium never learned), which he knew as a practical printer while here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book was finally published by William Richmond in Rogers Park, Illinois in 1890.<\/p>\n<p><em>Psychopathy, or, Spirit Healing<\/em> may be the only book \u201cwritten through mediumship\u201d in the National Library of Medicine\u2019s collection, but it is not the only one of its kind. Other famous examples include a <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/100528194\">mystery<\/a> \u201cby the spirit-pen of Charles Dickens\u201d and a <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/the-book-was-supposedly-written-by-mark-twains-ghost-100-years-ago\/\">novel<\/a> by the ghost of Mark Twain. When searching the library catalog, how can you tell the difference between a book that was written by a person and one by a spirit? Thankfully, the catalog is not like a Halloween corn maze. To aid your search, catalogers create separate headings to differentiate the person from the spirit. We leave the tricks this season to your festive neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristastracka.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11117\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/02\/14\/the-lay-of-the-lonesome-lung-1881\/kristastracka\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristastracka.png?fit=857%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"857,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"kristastracka\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristastracka.png?fit=214%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristastracka.png?fit=731%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11117\" title=\"Krista Stracka\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristastracka.png?resize=100%2C140&ssl=1\" alt=\"Portrait of Krista Stracka\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Krista Stracka is a cataloger in the User Services and Collection Division of the National Library of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Krista Stracka ~ All was quiet in the library on that day in 2019. 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