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<h1><em>Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos</em></h1>
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<p><em>Ex-votos...are a moving record of a nation, a stethoscope measure of its heart.</em></p>
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<span class="initcap">E</span><em>veryday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos</em>, a new small exhibition on display at the U.S. National Library of Medicine<span class="registered">®</span> (NLM<span class="registered">®</span>), explores the relationship between faith and healing as expressed in the personal devotional paintings from Italy and Mexico. Ex-votos are small devotional paintings that were commissioned by the faithful for healing miracles and displayed in community churches as testimony to their devotion and gratitude. Painted with illustrations of patients, doctors, and diseases, ex-votos open a window to our understanding of how the faithful coped with illness in their daily lives. (See <a href="#fig1">Figure 1</a>.)
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<strong>Figure 1: A pale, serene, young girl suffers from pneumonia while two female relatives <br />pray for her recovery. Oil on tin, 1925/Courtesy Historia Antiques.</strong>
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Using examples from the past three hundred years, the exhibition provides a glimpse of the role that faith has played for some in the healing of illness and injury. Illustrating both the prayers of the faithful and the symptoms of illnesses such as smallpox and tuberculosis, ex-votos offer a rare opportunity to view an individual's personal response to illness and healing as well as the symptoms of disease.
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The exhibition features several expressively painted ex-votos and is complemented by a display of early medical guides from the 16th and 17th centuries published in Mexico and used to assist in the care and treatment of the sick.
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<em>Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos</em> is on display in the History of Medicine Division of the NLM from September 15, 2008 through January 31, 2009.
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An <a href="/exhibition/exvotos/">online version</a> of the exhibition in three languages—English, Spanish, and Italian—includes a gallery of more than twenty-five ex-votos (see <a href="#fig2">Figure 2</a>). For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:newmarj@mail.nlm.nih.gov">Jill L. Newmark</a>.
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<strong>Figure 2: Homepage from the online version of the exhibition<br /> <em>Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos</em>.
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