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150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996
http://brain.mgh.harvard.edu:100/History/ether1.htm
"We Have Conquered Pain: A Celebration of Ether," presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.

A Bibliography of Greek and Roman Medicine
http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/histmed/biblio.html
Bibliography compiled by Robert Arnott of University of Birmingham. Useful, but few links to full text. Last updated February 2002

A History of Cardiology
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.html
University of Iowa online exhibition from 1990. Traces the interwoven history of medical knowledge and technological advance from Galen's early description of the circulatory system to modern breakthroughs in prevention, diagnosis and treatment

A Short History of Medical Careers
http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-1.html
From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th Century specialist.

Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/Medant/
Chronicles the practice of Medicine in the Greek and Roman eras, with translations of works by Hippocrates and Galen as well as essays, bibliographies, mailing lists, and othe resources.

Anesthesia History
http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm
Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web

Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of Medicine and Related Health Fields
http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/hom/biblio.html
A non-critical electronic bibliography from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library of monographs and classic works in the field of American history of medicine and related topics.

Classical Islamic Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html
Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.

David Grove
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/davidigrove/DavidGrove.htm
Dr. Grove is the author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".

Dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac language
http://www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/sem/Rufus.pdf
This site contains an edition of dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac language, together with German translation and commentary. PDF (1,3 MB)

Directory of History of Medicine Collections (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/directoryhome.html
Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.

Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/Pioneers/Childress/toc.html
Comprehensive study of the life and work of a rural East Texas physician in the last half of the nineteenth century. Based on over 12,500 entries transcribed from his journals.

Dying to Have a Baby - The History of Childbirth
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/manitoba_womens_health/hist1.htm
Chronicles the dangers that women and their newborns have faced during labor and delivery.

ECG Library: A (Not So) Brief History of Electrocardiography
http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghist.html
An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).

Every Man His Own Doctor
http://www.librarycompany.org/doctor/everyman.html
An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.

Flash-Med:Medicine history and trivia
http://www.flash-med.com/Flash-Med-Trivia.asp
Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.

Global Project on the History of Leprosy
http://www.leprosyhistory.org
The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.

Health Service Development and History
http://www.healthservice.info/
Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave

Historical Medical Digital Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
http://www.collphyphil.org/HMDLSubweb/indexhmdl.htm_1.htm
Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.

History of Anaesthesia
http://www.johnpowell.net/
GASMAN - A Personal History of Anaesthesia; A memoir and commentary by English anaesthetist John Powell. It also includes other articles on the History of Anaesthesia.

History of Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html
Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

History of Biomedicine: Indigenous Cultures
http://www.mic.ki.se/Indig.html
Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.

History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm
List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA

History of the Royal College of General Practitioners
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/histories/index.asp
Shows establishment of general practice (family medicine) as a speciality and academic discipline in Great Britain. Includes background history of general practice, foundation of the College, history of the College and its building and detailed chronology by subject. Links to Royal College of General Practitioners Archives pages.

Images from the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Provides access to the thousands of prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

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