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On-line exhibits and videos of significant events to help people learn more about public health and the history of the PHS.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/phs200/

Supported by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health and cooperates with other institutions and foundations to promote the study of the history of public health.
http://www.tema.liu.se/inhph/

An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
http://phil.cdc.gov/

Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/

Articles of the World Health Organization's contributions to Public Health over the past 50 years.
http://www.who.int/archives/who50/en/50years.htm

Historical highlights.
http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html

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

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

An essay on a pioneer in Public Health. Authored by Alan Kraut, Ph.D., Professor of History, American University.
http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/goldberger/full-text.html

The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html

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/bul...istory_of_medicine/indexold.html

An on-line history of Dr. Benjamin Rush's efforts to fight yellow fever in America in the 1790s, by Bob Arnebeck, with documents from the period.
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.html

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

Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/Rushmem98.html

Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/

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

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/

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

Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical care came about, beginning with the Order of St. John.
http://www.sja-haltonhills.org/history2.html

Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html