OnLine Images from the History of Medicine:
Search Examples

Examples: Search for Images Using Text Expressions

• Search for items applicable to Belgium by entering the string:

  Belgi*

  in the text window labeled Any Text Field. This will match words such as Belgium, Belgian, Belgians, Belgica, and Belgique.

• Search for items pertinent to diabetes by entering the string:

  diabet*

  in the text window labeled Any Text Field. This will match diabetes, diabetic, diabetology, etc.

• Find images dealing with the Civil War-era President of the United States by entering

  Abra* Abe

  in the Any Text Field text window, and

  Lincoln

  in the Name Field(s) text window.

• Find caricatures by the French artist Daumier by entering the string

  caricatur*

  in the Any Text Field text window, and

  Daumier

  in the text window labeled Name Field(s). Using caricatur* instead of caricature catches the plural form, caricatures, as well as the singular.

• Find material dealing with nursing in Europe by selecting Europe in the geographical locator list, and typing

  nurs*

  in the Any Text Field text window. If you are interested in nursing in France, you will obtain better results by typing

  nurs* and France

  in the Any Text Field text window.

• Find images dealing with aerial forms of patient evacuation by entering

  evacuation and air*

  into the Any Text Field window.

• To find images relating to air quality and automobiles, enter the string

  air and automobile*

  into the Any Text Field window. The expression and is interpreted here as a Boolean operation between the pair of words it connects.

• Find images of aircraft by entering

  airplan* *plane

  into the Any Text Field window.

• Find images dealing with railroad transportation by entering the string

  train trains

  into the Any Text Field window. Using the Title/Abstract field instead will slightly reduce the number of matches. We did not use train*here, to avoid matching images dealing with topics such as training.

• Locate images dealing with the Public Health Service ("Marine") Hospital in San Francisco by entering

  public phs marine and "san francisco"

  into the Any Text Field window. Due to the rules governing the parsing of text expressions, this is equivalent to the Boolean expression

  (public or phs or marine) and "san francisco".

  This search takes advantage of knowing that the Public Health Service Hospital was known as the marine hospital for much of its life, and that the initials of the Public Health Service ar P.H.S.