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A Brief History of First Aid
http://www.sja-haltonhills.org/history2.html
Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical care came about, beginning with the Order of St. John.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra
http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/goldberger/full-text.html
An essay on a pioneer in Public Health. Authored by Alan Kraut, Ph.D., Professor of History, American University.
Edward Jenner
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html
Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
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
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.
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