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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/
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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/
     
  • Edward Jenner
    Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
    http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html
     
  • 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/
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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://www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
    Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
    http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/
     
  • 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/
     
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Historical highlights.
    http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html
     
  • 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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