By Ben Richardson ~ January is National Blood Donor Month, and many people will celebrate by volunteering to give blood
Tag: 1900s
Race, Pseudoscience, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
By Erika Mills and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) tells the unsettling
(Un)fit to Nurse: Efficiency and Discipline at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898–1916
An interview with Ren Capucao, MSN, RN on his NLM History Talk and his research on the Philippine General Hospital at the turn of the 20th century.
Hay Fever: The Nuisance of a New Season
By Erika Mills ~ Now that spring in underway in the Northern Hemisphere, you might be feeling a tickle in
Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart, 1907
By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart,
“What do you See?”: Stereoscopic Pictures, 1942
By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Most people have two eyes
Making A Case for Comic Books in the Classroom
By Ginny A. Roth ~ Comics, whether created to entertain or inform, have a place in the classroom.
Elementary Hygiene for the Tropics, 1902
By Elizabeth Fee ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This sometimes charming, sometimes dreadful
Hospital Postcards from the American Hospital Association
By Ginny A. Roth ~ This National Postcard Week, celebrated May 1-7 2022, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is
“Human bullets,” A Russo-Japanese War Photo Album
By Alexander Bay ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This essay takes a look