Digitized American medical books dating from 1610 to 1920, made possible in part through NLM's participation in the Medical Heritage Library, a digital curation collaborative among a group of the world’s leading medical libraries.

Digitized historical public health and training films using a prototype full-text search and delivery platform for online motion picture content.

Digitized English language monographs from the History of Medicine collections dating from 1817 to 1900 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period.

Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health, a new exhibition at the National Library of Medicine, looks at the revolution in global health that is taking place in towns and cities around the world.

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body is about the history of forensic medicine.

The National Library of Medicine celebrates the lives and achievements of America's women physicians.
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Archival collections of twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health are available to the public through modern digital technology. Fact Sheet

An exhibition about anatomy and the artistic imagination, featuring material from the Library's collections

Learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe.

High-quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library's collection.

Using computer animation and high-quality images, experience a digitally browsable book.

Explore ancient Greek medicine and many of the foundations of modern Western medicine.

An historical collection of prints, photographs, transcripts and video interviews on the history of the Regional Medical Program. Fact Sheet