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Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html
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A Brief History of First Aid
Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical care came about, beginning
with the Order of St. John.
http://www.sja-haltonhills.org/history2.html
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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
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/booksdocs_default.html
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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
http://germtheorycalendar.com/
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Walter Reed Yellow Fever Papers at U. Va.
Personal and professional letters and documents written and received by Reed and his associates
during their successful effort to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever
http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/collection.html
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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
http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/medant/hyprtxts.htm
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Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters
Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/
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Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/Rushmem98.html
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In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D.
In 1961 Dr. James Morison wrote an important paper on why people smoke: "Smoking Habits of
Winnipeg School Children". He also wrote on nursing homes and public health.
http://members.attcanada.ca/~jmorison/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm
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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.
http://home.att.net/~hickorygrove/
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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
http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.html
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.html
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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.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.html
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American History Sweatshop Exhibition
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American
History Smithsonian Institution.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
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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.
http://130.14.42.05/
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Andrew Balfour of Khartoum
The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html
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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.
http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/goldberger/full-text.html
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Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
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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.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
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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.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
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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.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Historical highlights.
http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html
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50 Years of International Public Health
Articles of the World Health Organization's contributions to Public Health over the past 50 years.
http://www.who.int/archives/who50/en/50years.htm
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The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/
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CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL
An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
http://phil.cdc.gov/
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International Network for the History of Public Health
Supported by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health and cooperates with
other institutions and foundations to promote the study of the history of public health.
http://www.tema.liu.se/inhph/
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U. S. Public Health Service Bicentennial
On-line exhibits and videos of significant events to help people learn more about public health and
the history of the PHS.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/phs200/
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