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.
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Read Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine
Download a free e-copy of the book and celebrate the richness of NLM's collections.
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Visit "Every Necessary Care and Attention" through March 1
An exhibition exploring the history of the first president and his concerns about medical care.
![Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions](images/homepage/pickyourpoison.png)
Visit Pick Your Poison, on display through April 12, 2013
An exhibition exploring factors that have shaped the changing definition of some of our most potent drugs.
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Data, Biomedicine, & the Digital Humanities
NLM to participate in Shared Horizons, an interdisciplinary symposium to explore the intersection of digital humanities and biomedicine.
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Making News
Explore our Exhibitions
Search our Databases
- IndexCat
- More than 4.5 million references spanning five centuries
- Images from the History of Medicine
- Over 60,000 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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