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Welcome to Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

The catalog records from The Prints and Photographs Collection Images from the History of Medicine database http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov were made searchable in LocatorPlus http://locatorplusv2.nlm.nih.gov effective December 17, 2007.

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[   Keyword Search   ] KEYWORD
  • Searches terms from ALL fields in the record (AUTHOR, TITLE, SUBJECT, NOTES, ORDER NUMBER, etc.) or specifically selected fields (SUBJECT, AUTHOR, TITLE).
  • Search TIPS: Truncate search words using*; e.g., nurs* will search nurse, nurses, nursing, etc.
  • The fewer search words used, the broader (and sometimes better) the result.
[ Browse Terms Index ] BROWSE
  • Displays specific lists of terms in the database in alphabetical order.You may scan and browse the list and double click on terms to retrieve specific images.

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