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Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical science, public health, and allied sciences from about 1850 to the present. Read more »
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Access over 70,000 images in NLM collections from the 15th to 21st century. Read more »
Health Policy and Services Research
Health Policy and Services Research
Read significant, specially-selected health services research grey literature content. Read more »
World War 1, 1914-1918
World War 1, 1914-1918
Explore publications ranging from unit histories to published personal narratives, accounts of relief work, and more. Read more »
World War 2, 1939-1949
World War 2, 1939-1949
Explore U.S. federal, state, and local government documents such as reports, first aid manuals, and pamphlets. Read more »
NLM Publications and Productions
NLM Publications and Productions
View an archive of documents and videos created by NLM such as technical notes, bibliographies, reports, and lectures. Read more »
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
View and listen to films, video recordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009. Read more »
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Examine NLM historical books and journals published in the Americas that document the evolution of medicine. Read more »
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Access the rarest digitized books, nearly 300 printed in the English-speaking world from 1552 to 1800 and uniquely held here. Read more »
Incunabula
Incunabula
Examine books and broadsides from the infancy of the age of printing from the mid-1460s to 1520. Read more »
NIH Annual Reports
NIH Annual Reports
Read print annual reports issued by NIH Institutes and Centers from 1958 to 1993. Read more »
The Public Health Film Goes To War
The Public Health Film Goes To War
Explore a curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films. Read more »
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
View 518 digitized English language monographs from 1817 to 1923 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period. Read more »

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Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical science, public health, and allied sciences from about 1850 to the present. Read more »
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Access over 70,000 images in NLM collections from the 15th to 21st century. Read more »
Health Policy and Services Research
Health Policy and Services Research
Read significant, specially-selected health services research grey literature content. Read more »
World War 1, 1914-1918
World War 1, 1914-1918
Explore publications ranging from unit histories to published personal narratives, accounts of relief work, and more. Read more »
World War 2, 1939-1949
World War 2, 1939-1949
Explore U.S. federal, state, and local government documents such as reports, first aid manuals, and pamphlets. Read more »
NLM Publications and Productions
NLM Publications and Productions
View an archive of documents and videos created by NLM such as technical notes, bibliographies, reports, and lectures. Read more »
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
View and listen to films, video recordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009. Read more »
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Examine NLM historical books and journals published in the Americas that document the evolution of medicine. Read more »
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Access the rarest digitized books, nearly 300 printed in the English-speaking world from 1552 to 1800 and uniquely held here. Read more »
Incunabula
Incunabula
Examine books and broadsides from the infancy of the age of printing from the mid-1460s to 1520. Read more »
The Public Health Film Goes To War
The Public Health Film Goes To War
Explore a curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films. Read more »
NIH Annual Reports
NIH Annual Reports
Read print annual reports issued by NIH Institutes and Centers from 1958 to 1993. Read more »
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
View 518 digitized English language monographs from 1817 to 1923 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period. Read more »

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Letter to Cornelius Boyle
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Recently Digitized

Robert King Stone Papers
Robert King Stone Papers
Correspondence
Correspondence
Clippings
Clippings
Bibliography
Bibliography
Receipts
Receipts
Patient records
Patient records
Notes
Notes
Writings - poetry
Writings - poetry
Correspondence - unidentified
Correspondence - unidentified
Letter to Cornelius Boyle
Letter to Cornelius Boyle
La Tisane Cisbey est le véritable remède de la constipation
La Tisane Cisbey est le véritable remède de la constipation
Dr. F.W. Lange's Lactated Tissue Food
Dr. F.W. Lange's Lactated Tissue Food

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IndexCat
IndexCat™
Search a database containing the bibliographic citations of all five printed series of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office; with direct access to the NLM online catalog, LocatorPlus. It also contains eTK for citations to medieval Latin texts and eVK2 for medieval English texts
FDA Notices of Judgment
FDA Notices of Judgment
A digital archive of federal court case trial summaries involving products found to be in violation of the 1908 Pure Food and Drug Act
Profiles in Science
Profiles in Science
Explore digitized archival collections to learn about prominent scientists, physicians, and other 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health
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