United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)

United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Collection

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences including some of the world's oldest and rarest works. Its Digital Projects section houses many online collections of material, including the wonderful “Historical Anatomies on the Web”, and also curated online exhibitions.

View highlights from the collection in the Public Domain Review.

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English

United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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Michael J. North, Head of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts in NLM’s History of Medicine Division, takes a look at one the highlights of the Library’s Turning the Pages project, a Mongolian manuscript concerned with interpreting the heavens.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-mongolian-manual-of-astrology-and-divination/

Michael J. North takes a look at one of the most important books in the history of veterinary medicine – a seminal 17th-century work dedicated to the care of horses.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/markhams-masterpiece/