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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

Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History 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 http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/booksdocs_default.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

CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL A collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health. http://phil.cdc.gov/

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/

History of the National Hansen’s Disease Programs Timeline of U.S. government work in Louisiana aimed at the treatment of leprosy, patient rehabilitation, and related training and education. http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/history.htm

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

In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS Recordings and transcripts of oral histories about the discovery and early investigations of this mysterious and devastating disease. http://www.history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/

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

Marketing Health: Britain 1945-2000 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. http://marketinghealth.info

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

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html

The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts Includes exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts. http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/

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

World Health Organization Historical Collection 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. http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/