History of Medicine
NLM's History of Medicine Division collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to human health and disease.
![Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection](images/homepage/picturesofnursing.jpg)
Explore Pictures of Nursing, now on display at NLM.
An exhibition presenting a selection of historic postcards from NLM’s Zwerdling postcard collection, spanning a century of nursing imagery.
![See What's Circulating Now](images/homepage/HMD_CircNow_FDR.jpg)
Watch Rare Footage of FDR Speaking at NIH
Nearly 75 years ago, FDR dedicated the National Cancer Institute on the new grounds of NIH in Bethesda. Read more on Circulating Now.
![Mike Gorman](images/homepage/profilesGorman.jpg)
Explore digitized items from the papers of Mike Gorman
A new addition to Profiles in Science, Gorman fought for Mental Health Reform. Now, follow Profiles in Science on Pinterest!
![From DNA to Beer](images/homepage/FDTB_Banner.png)
Visit From DNA to Beer Online.
Explore some of the processes, problems, and potential inherent in technologies that use life. New! Education Resources.
![Replay](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141031011957im_/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/images/replay.png)
Making News
Search our Databases
- IndexCat
- Millions of references from antiquity to the mid-20th century
- Images from the History of Medicine
- Over 70,000 images
- Directory of History of Medicine Collections
- More than 200 collections worldwide
- Finding Aids Consortium
- Over 3,600 from 35 institutions
- More NLM Databases,
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