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  CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL http://phil.cdc.gov/
A collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html
Historical highlights.
  John Snow and Cholera http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
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.
  Images From the History of the Public Health Service http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html
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.
  Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century
  World Health Organization Historical Collection http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/
Archives of manuscripts, images, and other materials on epidemics of past centuries and recent times, international health organizations, history of public health systems in various countries, and other topics related to WHO's mission.
  Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/
Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
  In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS http://www.history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/
Recordings and transcripts of oral histories about the discovery and early investigations of this mysterious and devastating disease.
  Walter Reed Yellow Fever Papers at U. Va. http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/collection.html
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
  How the Other Half Lives http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
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.
  History of the National Hansen’s Disease Programs http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/history.htm
Timeline of U.S. government work in Louisiana aimed at the treatment of leprosy, patient rehabilitation, and related training and education.
  Edward Jenner http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html
Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
  American History Sweatshop Exhibition http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
  The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/
Includes exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
  Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/booksdocs_default.html
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
  Germ Theory Calendar http://germtheorycalendar.com/
A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900
  Buchan's Domestic Medicine http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.html
An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
  Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.html
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.
  Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/Rushmem98.html
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
  Marketing Health: Britain 1945-2000 http://marketinghealth.info
An academic study by Virginia Berridge of the history of public health in Britain since 1945, using smoking as a model to analyse changes in policy and attitude.
  Andrew Balfour of Khartoum http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html
The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
  In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. http://www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm
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.
  Bulletin of the History of Medicine http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.html
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.

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