The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
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.
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.
An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
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
A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900
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
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