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• 150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996

  http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/History/ether1.htm
  Presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Articles discuss the impact, people involved, surgery before anesthesia and current developments in the field.

• Before Depression

  http://www.beforedepression.com/
  A research project by the English departments of the Universities of Northumbria and Sunderland on what depression was before it was called depression (1660-1800). Details of public lectures, a conference, an exhibition and publications.

• 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.

• 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.nhshistory.com/
  Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave

• 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 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

• In Our Time: Anatomy

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005488j
  BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.

• Mad in America

  http://www.madinamerica.com/
  A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.

• Mersenne

  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mersenne.html
  UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies

• Phineas Gage

  http://www.uakron.edu/gage/
  Tells the story of the 19th Century man who survived severe damage to the brain, and how the accident led to significant changes in his personality and mood.

• Pictures of Health

  http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13025/20040119/www.maps.jcu.edu.au/course/hist/index.html
  Health and public health issues in the 19th century, with sections on "Health of the Body Politic", "Fever", "War's Cruel Scythe", "Quacks and Quackery", and "Populate or Perish".

• PolioHistory - Yahoo Group

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolioHistory/
  A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.

• Prize Microscopes Awarded by the New York Homeopathic Medical College. 1874-1916

  http://www.antique-microscopes.com/prize_microscopes/pz.html
  The New York Homeopathic Medical College awarded a prize microscope to the best graduates. This article is about this practice and it describes 5 of these prize microscopes.

• Spanish American War Medicine

  http://www.spanamwar.com/medical.htm
  Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.

• The Anatomists

  http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomists/medicine1.html
  Describes the development of early surgeons progressing from part-time barbers to skilled medical professionals. Page includes biographies of key historic figures and events that led to the creation of the Anatomy Act.

• The Ascelpion

  http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/intro.HTM
  Features topics about ancient medicine. Contains texts and illustrations.

• The Rise of Scientific Medicine

  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/154.html
  Course notes and presentations from University of Stanford course which explores the historical development of cultural beliefs and institutions in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which led to the establishment of the modern system of medicine.

• The Virtual Laboratory

  http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
  A platform where historians publish and discuss their research on experimentation in the life sciences, art, and technology. Managed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

• Who Named It?

  http://www.whonamedit.com/
  A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.

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