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1.National Museum of Health and Medicine
Located in Washington D.C. with online exhibits and schedule of events. Learn the history of medicine and experience the extraodinary.
URL:http://130.14.42.05/
2.American History Sweatshop Exhibition
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
URL:http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
3.Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters
Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
URL:http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/
4.Germ Theory Calendar
A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900
URL:http://germtheorycalendar.com/
5.Life in Wisconsin Sanatoriums
Short memoir of life in two Wisconsin tuberculosis sanatoriums in 1920s, Hickory Grove and Muirdale, with photos and history of each. plus links to sites on TB.
URL:http://home.att.net/~hickorygrove/
6.Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century
URL:http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
7.Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Sample issue and table of contents only. Full text requires subscription to Project Muse.
URL:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.html
8.CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL
An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
URL:http://phil.cdc.gov/
9.Buchan's Domestic Medicine
An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
URL:http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.html
10.Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History
Links to several on-line books published by the Army dealing with the history of epidemiology, preventative medicine and organization of the U.S. Army Medical Department and Medical Command
URL:http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/history/booksdocs/books.htm
11.The Army Medical Department 1775-1818
This is the first volume of a history of the U.S. Army Medical Department from the start of the American Revolution to World War I, and there is a link to the rest of the volumes.
URL:http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/history/booksdocs/rev/gillett1/default.htm
12.How the Other Half Lives
Studies of the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis, originally published in 1890. The Hypertext Edition, with illustrations, presented by American Studies at Yale.
URL:http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
13.Medicina Antiqua::Ancient Medicine::Hypertexts
English translations of texts by Hippocrates and Galen, including Galen's On the Natural Faculties and On Diagnosis from Dreams
URL:http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/medant/hyprtxts.htm
14.Andrew Balfour of Khartoum
The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
URL:http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html
15.Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever
An on-line history of Dr. Benjamin Rush's efforts to fight yellow fever in America in the 1790s, by Bob Arnebeck, with documents from the period.
URL:http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.html
16.Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
URL:http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/Rushmem98.html
17.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Historical highlights.
URL:http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html
18.Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra
An essay on a pioneer in Public Health. Authored by Alan Kraut, Ph.D., Professor of History, American University.
URL:http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/goldberger/full-text.html
19.Images From the History of the Public Health Service
An online version of Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service.
URL:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html
20.John Snow and Cholera
The life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), with multimedia pages including the complete text of On the Communication of Cholera. Created by the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health.
URL:http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
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