150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996
   Presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Articles discuss the impact, people involved, surgery before anesthesia and current developments in the field.
   http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/History/ether1.htm

A History of Cardiology
   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
   http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.html

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

Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
   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.
   http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/Medant/

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

Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of Medicine and Related Health Fields
   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.
   http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/hom/biblio.html

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

Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician
   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.
   http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/pioneers/childress/toc.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History of Anaesthesia
   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.
   http://www.johnpowell.net/

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

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

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

History of the Royal College of General Practitioners
   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
   http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/histories/index.asp

Images from the History of Medicine
   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 grap
   http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

In Our Time: Anatomy
   BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020214.shtml

London's Hospital System,
   How London's hospitals were formed and came to provide services to London. eBook of Geoffrey Rivett's history published by Kings Fund in 1986
   http://www.nhshistory.net/London's_hospitals.htm

MMS - materia medica sinica
   Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.
   http://www.materia-medica-sinica.de/

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

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

Phineas 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.
   http://www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/

Pictures of Health
   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".
   http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13025/20040119/www.maps.jcu.edu.au/course/hist/index.html

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

Prize Microscopes Awarded by the New York Homeopathic Medical College. 1874-1916
   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.
   http://www.antique-microscopes.com/prize_microscopes/pz.html

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

Syphilis and AIDS: Lessons from history
   Transcripts of a two-part radio program from 1996 that placed the responses to AIDS, from both socio-cultural and medical standpoints, in historical perspective. Includes various links.
   http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/Aids/index.html#Photos

The Anatomists
   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.
   http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomists/medicine1.html

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

The Birth of the Clinic
   Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
   http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucbc.htm

The History of Dentistry
   The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
   http://www.sadanet.co.za/dhw/history/overview.html

The Origins of Chinese Medicine
   A short account by Imre Galambos of the origins of Chinese medical texts (1996).
   http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_medicine.html

The Rise of Scientific Medicine
   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 e
   http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/154.html

The Virtual Laboratory
   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.
   http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

US 19th-Century Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine
   Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans. Exhibition from the National Library of Medicine.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_04.html

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