National Library of Medicine | 2007 Leiter Lecture: Laws, Leaders and Legends of the Modern NLM @NLMNIH | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
On May 23, 2007, Kent A. Smith, former Deputy Director, NLM, gave the 2007 Joseph Leiter MLA/NLM Lecture - "Laws, Leaders and Legends of the Modern NLM" - at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Philadelphia. The lecture is named in honor of NLM's first Associate Director for Library Operations.
In response to popular demand, Kent has agreed to reprise the Lecture. Come be enlightened and entertained by his unique perspective on some pivotal events in the past five decades of NLM history.
NLM Title: Laws, leaders, and legends of the modern NLM / Kent A. Smith.
Author: Smith, Kent A.
National Institutes of Health
Air date: Friday, June 22, 2007, 10:00:00 AM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
#medicalhistory
On May 23, 2007, Kent A. Smith, former Deputy Director, NLM, gave the 2007 Joseph Leiter MLA/NLM Lecture - "Laws, Leaders and Legends of the Modern NLM" - at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Philadelphia. The lecture is named in honor of NLM's first Associate Director for Library Operations.
In response to popular demand, Kent has agreed to reprise the Lecture. Come be enlightened and entertained by his unique perspective on some pivotal events in the past five decades of NLM history.
NLM Title: Laws, leaders, and legends of the modern NLM / Kent A. Smith.
Author: Smith, Kent A.
National Institutes of Health
Air date: Friday, June 22, 2007, 10:00:00 AM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
#medicalhistory
![Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZtOd39AWmVU/hqdefault.jpg "Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)
Title translates in English as altitude sickness. A man wearing a hat folded from newspaper is writing on a piece of paper. A hand reaches in and places a breathing apparatus in the mans mouth. Other men are shown wearing aviator goggles, writing on paper, and using the breathing apparatus. One man repeatedly holds his hands out from his body, examining their movement. Some of the people in the film wear white coats, suggesting they are scientists or doctors. In the final frames, three men and a woman, all in white coats, are outside, smiling and handling a camera and what appears to be a length of string. This film was made approximately one year after the Deutsche Forschungsrat für Luftfahrt (German Aeronautics Research Council) was founded.
Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773260
Learn more about the National Library of Medicines historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films
#medicalhistory #aviation #silentfilm")
