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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/
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
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/
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
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
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/
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