This short video presents a montage of still images and captions from the 2017 book US National Library of Medicine, authored by Jeffrey Reznick, Kenneth Koyle, and other NLM staff, part of the Images in America series, and published in 2017 by Arcadia Publishing of Charleston, South Carolina.

This short video chronicles the National Library of Medicine's introduction to, and use of, the internet via Gopher, MOSAIC, and other early internet-driven resources for information search and retrieval. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.

The Regional Medical Programs (RMPs) were launched under President Lyndon Johnson in 1964-65. They spurred enduring medical advances, including coronary care units, regional trauma centers, and the practice of telemedicine. Nonetheless, RMPs were axed ten years later, following political machinations and a lawsuit. Produced by the U.S.

This videotape is a copy of a film of the speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the dedication of the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the National Institute of Health on October 31, 1940. President Roosevelt, standing on the portico in front of Building 1, speaks about the role of government in promoting and stimulating research into cancer and other diseases, and the work of the Public Health Service and the National Cancer Institute.

This film is a start-to-finish record of the dedication ceremonies for the new building of the National Library of Medicine that were held on December 14, 1961. Dr. Worth Daniels was the master of ceremonies. He introduced a clergyman who gave the invocation. Daniels then read a message from President John F. Kennedy and introduced a number of dignitaries in the audience and on the podium. This was followed by brief remarks by Frank B. Rogers, then NLM director, and by Abraham Ribicoff, then Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

This is the film Challenge: Science Against Cancer accompanied by a French soundtrack. It illustrates the importance of continued research in laboratories around the world in order to solve the problem of cancer, and aims to explain the current difficulties in identifying causes and cures. It begins with an overview of the birth of man from one cell and explores the complexity of the human body. It shows the isolation and testing of cancer cells and explains the effects of heredity and environment on normal cells.

Jerome A. Urban, M.D. lectures, using diagrams, graphs, and photographs. Three surgical approaches to breast neoplasms are discussed: modified radical mastectomy, radical mastectomy, and extensive radical mastectomy. Modified radical is indicated when: tumor is in situ and confined to the breast, tumor is low-grade, non-aggressive. Photographs shown of Paget's disease, nipple lesions, eczema of nipple with crusting. Radiation therapy should follow surgery. Modified radicallooks better and allows better function than the radical or extensive radical.

This film attempts to explain why researchers are having a difficult time discovering the causes and cures for cancer. It begins with an overview of the birth of man from one cell and generally explores the complexity of the human body. It shows the isolation and testing of cancer cells and explains the effects of heredity and environment on normal cells. It explains the difficulties of tracing several generations for heredity research and the multitude of chemicals, etc. which affect cells and turn them cancerous.

Dr. Alton Ochsner introduces this 1965 Cine Clinic film by speaking about the poor prognosis for lung cancer and the direct relationship to cigarette smoking. The film shows patients' x-rays, surgical removal of cancerous tissue, and the excised specimen. Ochsner is staff at Tulane University, Ochsner Clinic, and Ochsner Foundation Hospital. Shot in New Orleans, Louisiana. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8501110A.

This film was created as a professional educational extension of the American Radium Society on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The film stresses the need for multiple disciplines to work together to treat childhood cancer. The three disciplines represented on this panel discussion were: surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Three childhood cancer cases were discussed: a 9-month old with a tumor on the right kidney, a 7-month old with a tumor in the left groin, and a 10-year-old boy with a tumor on the arm.

The purpose of this program is to demonstrate the use of radiation therapy in the management of cancer. The program begins with a discussion of the factors which can be used to determine the appropriate treatment for cancer. Next, the film discusses the use of the isodose chart in planning therapy. The program includes in this discussion dose distribution and the indication of radiation therapy in specific types of cancers. The program also provides two case studies to illustrate the use of radiation therapy in the management of cancer.

This Net Science film begins by introducing a child named Sandra with leukemia and following her as she gets routine blood work done. The narrator then explains that scientists are seeking to prove that a virus is the cause of cancer in humans. Doctors Grace and Stuart are called upon to help explain the present knowledge. The narrator explains that cancer is a disease of the cells, and then gives a brief description of cells, and shows through time-lapse photography how normal cells and cancerous cells reproduce differently under a microscope.

This film shows, by means of cinefluorography, the normal lungs, bronchiogenic carcinoma, carcinoma with abscess formation, metastases of seminoma, and metastases of sarcoma with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700985A. Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films

This film is excerpted from the full-length Challenge: Science Against Cancer. Portions are presented in French and portions in English. A patient, Mr. Davis, enters the medical office. He is shown to have a treatable cancerous lesion on his face. Several doctors discuss the case and the recommended treatment. The film shows cells and cell division, laboratories, the use of microscopes, and experiments with mice. The treatment for Mr. Davis begins immediately and uses radium.

A Rediscovered Cancer Film of the Silent Era This version has been modified with the addition of a sound track, titles, and credits. In 1921 the American Society for the Control of Cancer released The Reward of Courage. The film, a silent melodrama, was designed to persuade viewers to visit a physician for regular checkups and at the first sign of the disease.