Presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Articles discuss the impact, people involved, surgery before anesthesia and current developments in the field.

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

From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th-century specialist. Developed by students for ThinkQuest.

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.

Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web

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.

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.

Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.

The author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".

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.

An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).

An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.

Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.

The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.

Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.

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.

Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.

List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA

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 by subject. Links to Royal College of General Practitioners Archives pages.

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 graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.

Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.

A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.

Searchable catalog of resources related to the history of medicine and allied sciences, developed and managed by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies

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.

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".

A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.

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.

Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.

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.

Features topics about ancient medicine. Contains texts and illustrations.

Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic

The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.

A short account by Imre Galambos of the origins of Chinese medical texts (1996).

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.

A resource for the history of the human sciences (especially psychology) and the "experimentalization of life," archiving historical texts and images, as well as new essays. Site is in English, but much of the archived material is in German.

Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans. Exhibition from the National Library of Medicine.

A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.