Life and times of a nineteenth century British physician, prominent in both epidemiology and anesthesiology.

How the Other Half Lives The Hypertext Edition Studies among the tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis with illustrations chiefly from photographs by the author.

Images From the History of the Public Health Service A Photographic Exhibit Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D.

A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale Many of the 39 Florence Nightingale letters, including two recent purchases, have been acquired through the generosity of the University of Kansas Nurses Alumni Association.

The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts is housed in the Old Administration Building of Tewksbury Hospital. The hospital was established in 1852 as a state almshouse to care for the poor including a growing number of immigrants. It became the Tewksbury State Hospital in 1900, the Massachusetts State Infirmary in 1908 and Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary in 1938. It is now known as ...

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is an extensive compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs, negatives, and artifacts spanning a period of almost one hundred years. This array of items occupies seventy-two linear feet of shelf space and 147 boxes in the Department of ...

The Germ Theory Calendar by William C. Campbell Copyright 2002 William C. Campbell. All rights reserved. ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS: Historical Highlights The roots of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services go back to the earliest days of the nation. 1798 The first Marine Hospital, a forerunner of today's Public Health Service, was established to care for seafarers. 1862 President Lincoln appointed a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to serve in the new Department of ...

It had been my original intent to begin this feature with an exposition of the historical significance of Dr. Buchan's book, but then I happily learned that task had already been done by a latter day colleague of his, by means of a webpage at Harvard Medical School.