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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836. The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology. In addition, the Library coordinates a 6,000-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States. Our collections include:

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Transfusion Of Blood - Is It Too Late?

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  • Brian J. Hunt said:
    Is this Chester A Arthur?
  • National Library of Medicine said:
    Winfield Hancock

To-night you may need one of these articles: Kemp's Balsam, Lane's (a tea) Family Medicine, Lane's Cold Tablets

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  • james burton said:
    wonderful

Incubators at the Maternity Hospital, Port Royal, Paris

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  • VladimirovaS said:
    Thank you for sharing so interesting resources from the library!🙏
    Very nice historical engraving! 💕
    I was curious about "incubator" and did a search.
    For occasional reader
    Neonatology on the Web,
    Jean-Louis-Paul Denucé (1824-1889)......He published the first report of an incubator in the Western medical literature....

    "Stéphane Étienne Tarnier
    (29 April 1828 – 23 November 1897)
    was a French obstetrician who was a native of Aiserey.
    He studied and practiced medicine in Paris,
    and is often considered as doyen of French obstetrics during the second half of the nineteenth century....."Wikipedia

    Greetings 👍😊

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