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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.
phil.cdc.gov
The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
www.publichealthmuseum.org
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Historical highlights.
www.hhs.gov
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.
www.nlm.nih.gov
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.
www.ph.ucla.edu
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.
www.cis.yale.edu
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century
jefferson.village.virginia.edu
The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
www.geocities.com
American History Sweatshop Exhibition
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
americanhistory.si.edu
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.
muse.jhu.edu
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.
www.geocities.com
An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
www.americanrevolution.org
Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
www.geocities.com
Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters
Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
clendening.kumc.edu
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
yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu