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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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Watch Psyche Williams-Forson, PhD, guest curator of NLM's newest exhibition, speak on Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America. Read an interview with Dr. Williams-Forson.

What kind of rare bird is this?

A new coloring book featuring Images from the History of Medicine explains!

Explore Visit Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care Online

An online exhibition describing how the profession developed as a solution to meet the social and health care needs of the mid-20th century and continues to evolve today.

The Louis Sokoloff Papers on Profiles in Science

An American physician and neuroscientist whose innovative research methods and tools transformed the study of brain structure and function.

Watch Psyche Williams-Forson, PhD, guest curator of NLM's newest exhibition, speak on “Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America.”
Read an interview with Dr. Williams-Forson.
What kind of rare bird is this? A new coloring book featuring Images from the History of Medicine explains!
Expore Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care
An online exhibition describing how the profession developed as a solution to meet the social and health care needs of the mid-20th century and continues to evolve today.
The Louis Sokoloff Papers on Profiles in Science
An American physician and neuroscientist whose innovative research methods and tools transformed the study of brain structure and function.

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- 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 8,000 from 48 institutions
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