MEDICAL HISTORY ON THE INTERNET

by

A.J. Wright, MLS
Department of Anesthesiology Library
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35233-6810

205/934-4696 (voice)
205/975-5114, ext. 304 (voice)
205/975-5963 (fax)

meds002@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu
awright@ms.jt.anes.uab.edu

[last updated 10 September 1998]

NOTES

Additions and corrections are welcome!

DISCLAIMER: This listing is known to be just a pitiful reflection of the medical history resources available on the Internet. Let me suggest the "Meta-Sites" section for further exploration. And as "Deep Throat" said to Woodward and Bernstein, "Follow the links!"

This list was originally created as a handout for the Anesthesia History Association annual spring meeting held in Buffalo, New York in May, 1996.

See *Shultz SM. History of medicine on the Internet. Med Ref Serv Q 17(1):25-37, spring 1998

For an online guide to medical history reference works, see Dale C. Smith's excellent Resources for Medical History Papers

Excellent collections of general history links can be found at the following locations:

*Richard Jensen's "Scholars' Guide to the WWW."
* George M. Welling's "WWW Services for Historians;"
*History WWW Ring
*H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
*Horus' Web Links to History Resources
*Info Service History Archive
*Internet Resources in History

TABLE OF CONTENTS
[in progress!]

-Acupuncture
-AIDS
-Ancient Medicine
-Anesthesia and Pain
-Archives/Centers/Libraries/Special Collections
-Associations
-Awards
-Bibliographies
-Biotechnology
-Bloodletting
-Book Dealers/Publishers
-Books
-Botanical Medicine
-Cardiac Surgery
-Chemistry
-Chinese Medicine
-Chiropractic
-Circumcision
-Contraception
-Dentistry
-Disabilities
-Education
-Ephemera
-Equipment
-Exhibitions
-Family Practice
-Genetics
-Homeopathy
-Images
-Influenza
-Jewish Medical History
-Journals/Newsletters
-Leeches
-Marijuana
-Medical History-Discussion Forums
-Medieval Medicine
-Meetings
-Meta-Sites
-Military Medicine
-Miscellaneous
-Museums
-Neurosciences
-Neurosurgery
-Nursing
-Obstetrics
-Oxygen
-Pathology
-Pediatrics
-People
-Pharmacy
-Psychiatry
-Psychology
-Quackery
-Sexology
-Suicide
-Syllabi
-Telemedicine
-Tobacco
-Women's Health

*ACUPUNCTURE

*Historical Overview of Acupuncture

*AIDS

*AIDS History Project

*ANCIENT MEDICINE

*Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua

*Asclepion

*Greek and Roman Medicine: An Introductory Bibliography

*Medicine in Ancient and Medieval Times

*ANESTHESIA AND PAIN

*Discussion forums

*anes-hist
Launched in July 1995, anes-hist is an electronic discussion list
devoted to the history of anesthesia, pain management, critical care
medicine and related topics. List owners are Keith J. Ruskin, MD
and A.J. Wright, MLS;there are some 140 subscribers as of 3/96.
To subscribe, send the message "subscribe anes-hist your name"
[without the quotes] tolistproc@gasnet.med.yale.edu

*Other Resources

*Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.

*Allen and Hanburys Ltd. "A Reference List of Surgical Instruments and
Medical Appliances....", 1930.

This site contains more than 25 anesthesia-related portions of this medical equipment catalog. For further information, contact Dr. John Oyston

*American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Email address.
Archivist:Lee C. Fosburgh, MLIS, MA

*American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History of Nurse Anesthesia Practice.

*American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Guide to the Holdings in the AANA Archives

*American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists. History.

*Anestesiologia Mexicana en Internet. Historia de la Anestesia.

*Anesthesia History Association
Webmaster: Carlos Nunez, MD
Association Email: aneshxassn@aol.com

*Anesthesia History Files. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Anesthesiology Library.

*Anesthesia Memorial Foundation

*Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. History.
Written by E.S. Siker, MD

*Bochum Anaesthesia Antiques Online Collection
--Chloroform Bottle (ca. 1900)

*Bonica, John J. Virtual Archives.

*California Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.

*Canadian Anaesthetists' Society. History of the CAS.
Chronology by decade from the 1940s to the 1990s.

*Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Magill Department of Anaesthetics. History.

*Educational Synopses in Anesthesiology and Critical Care.
Anesthesia History Column.

This electronic peer-reviewed journal, distributed free via the Internet, includes a history column in many issues. If you would like to submit, contact A.J. Wright, MLS (meds002@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu), Anesthesia History Contributing Editor.Past columns can be found on the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Anesthesiology's "Anesthesia History Files in the "Anesthesia History Menu". Most of the columns are also posted at the Virtual Museum of Anesthesiology.

*Evans, Thomas J.Origin of the Word "Anesthesia"

*Evans, Thomas J.The Unusual History of "Ether"

*Founding Father of the Pain Field: John Jospeh Bonica [1917-1994]

*Georgia Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.

*Hinckley's Who Was Who on Ether Day (Boston Medical Library)

*Historia de la Anestesia

*History of Anaesthesia Society, Great Britain.

*History Pages, Dutch Anesthesiology Corner.
Currently contains the essay "Some Thoughts on the History
of Anesthesia," by Dr. David Zuck

*International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia. V. 12-15 September 2001.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Contact: Dr. J.C. Diz

*Mesmerism. National Library of Medicine.
This excellent overview is part of a large exhibit developed
in 1992 for the centennial celebration of the American
Psychological Association. The entire exhibit was titled
"Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James."

*Missouri Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.

*Nitrous Oxide--a brief history

*Pain and Suffering in History: Narratives of Science, Medicine, and Culture.
Symposium in Los Angeles, California, 13-14 March, 1998

*Royal College of Anesthetists
Very brief history.

*Stichting Amsterdams Genootschap voor Anesthesiologen (Foundation of the
Amersterdam Fellowship of Anesthesiologists). Facsimile on the Web.

So far, facsimilies of articles by Bigelow (1846) and Simpson (1847),
two pamphlets by Morton and other materials are available on this site.
A list of forthcoming materials is also included.

*Syndicat National des Infirmiers Anesthesistes. Histoire du SNIA.
Chronological history of the nurse anesthesia association in France.
snia75@planete.net

*Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Capsule History of Nurse Anesthetists.

*U.S. Air Force Nurse Anesthesia Homepage. History of Nurse Anesthesia in the U.S. Air Force.

*U.S. Army Tripler Medical Center. Nursing Graduate Program. History of Anesthesia Nursing

*U.S. Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing. A History of CRNAs.

*University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dept of Anesthesiology Timeline.
The department will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary on August 1,
1998; this chronology outlines significant events in its history.

*University of California, Los Angeles. John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection.

*University of California, San Francisco. Department of Anesthesia. History.

*University of Nottingham. Department of Anaesthesia. Brief History.

*University of Oxford. Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics. NDA Online Anaesthesia Museum

*Vandam, Leroy D. "A History of Anaesthesia at Harvard University."

This article by Dr. Vandam includes a listing of anesthesia-related
sites in Boston.

*Virtual Museum of Anesthesiology
Curated by Carlos M. Nunez, MD, this site is based
at the University of Miami Department of Anesthesiology.
This site contains portraits of historical figures, collections of historical
articles, reference materials and materials related to machines and other
equipment.

*"We have conquered pain.": A Celebration of Ether, 1846-1996.

*White DC. The History of Closed Circuit Anaesthesia.
Abstract of presentation at the first Low Flow Meeting held in Manchester, England, in July 1994

*Wolfe, Richard J., et al, eds. I Awaken to Glory:Essays on Horace Wells.Publishers blurb on this 1994 book.

*Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.
Email addresses:
General:wlm@asahq.org
Patrick Sim, MLS: p.sim@asahq.org
Karen Bieterman, MLS:k.bieterman@asahq.org

*Wynands E. "History of cardiac anesthesia: the contribution of Canadian anaesthetists to the evolution of cardiac surgery." Canad J Anaesth 43: 518-534, 1996

*ARCHIVES/CENTERS/LIBRARIES/SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

*Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

*Allegheny University of the Health Sciences. Archives. Email address.
This university has formerly been known as the Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Women's Medical College.

*American Hospital Association. Resource Center Catalog.

*American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Email

*American Academy of Family Physicians. Archives of Family Practice.

*Archive for Sexology. Robert Koch Institute.

*Archives for Family Practice
Also:Email

*Bakken Library and Museum (Minneapolis, Minn.)

*Blocker History of Medicine Collections. University of Texas Medical Branch.
*Texas Health Libraries Consortium Online Catalog

*Boston Medical Library

*Boston University. Department of Special Collections. History of Nursing Archives.

*Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
or Email

*Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. University of Manchester.

*Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Emailaddress.
Curator: Margo Szabunia, Curator

*Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
This site contains general information about the Center
and links to other nursing resources. Includes overview,
newsletter, photo gallery and information on the collections.

*Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center

*College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Curator of Archives and Manuscripts: Charles Greifenstein, Curator
Includes material on the Mutter Museum, library and Wood Institute for the History of Medicine.
Finding Aids and Bibliographies.

*Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University.

*Dittrick Medical History Center

*Duke University Medical Center Library. History of Medicine Collections.
Site is the Historical Images in Medicine: Four Seasons subset.

*Galen II: The Digital Library of the University of California, San Fran- cisco and the Center for Knowledge Management. Archives and Special Collections.
*orEmail
Contemporary collecting projects include the AIDS History Project, the Biotechnology Archives and the Tobacco Control Archives.

*Hanford Health Information Archives
Material related to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern
Washington state, U.S.A.

*Hannah Chair, History of Medicine. Queen's University at Kingston (Canada)
orEmail

*Harvey Cushing/John Hay Witney Medical Library. Historical Medical Library.
Yale University School of Medicine.
This site includes an "Electronic Text Project" that is loading 16th-18th
century medical texts.

*Hawaii Medical Library Archives

*Institut fuer Geschichte der Medizin. University of Heidelberg, Germany.

*Institute of the History of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University.

*Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine. Department of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

*Lane Medical Library Special Collections and Archives. Stanford University

*Lloyd Library and Museum

*Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History and Special Collections. University of California at Los Angeles.BR> Email: Katharine E. S. Donahue, Head, History and Special Collections
*Marvin Samson Center for the History of Pharmacy. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

*Michigan Digital Historical Initiative in the Health Sciences.

*Moody Medical Library. University of Texas Medical Branch. Historical Microscopes Exhibit.
Excellent site with much information, including a select bibliography and a listing of other historical microscope collections.

*Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. University of Chicago.

*National Library of Medicine.[U.S.] History of Medicine Division.
OrEmail address

*New York Academy of Medicine Library. Historical Collections.
Or Email

*Ohio Academy of Medical History

*Osler Library, McGill University.
The Osler Library is Canada's premier history of medicine
collection and its catalog is available via MUSE, the online
catalog for the university.

*Prior Health Sciences Library, Ohio State University. Medical Heritage Center.

*Reynolds Historical Library. University of Alabama at Birmingham.

*Royal College of Nursing Scotland. Archives.

*Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection. University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library.

*Rockefeller Archive Center

*Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Special Collections/History of Medicine. Indiana University School of Medicine.

*Sealy History of Medicine Library and School of Medicine Archives. Mercer University.

*Thomas Jefferson University. Archives and Special Collections.

*University of California at San Francisco. History of Health Sciences Department.

*University of Manchester. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

*University of North Carolina. History of the Health Sciences Library.

*University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System. History of Medicine.

*University of Virginia. Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Historical Collections.

*Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

*Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library
Card Catalog, WILDCAT.
telnet to wihm.ucl.ac.uk
Logon please (network users type W in upper case)
To exit, select 4 on main menu
Contains _Current Work in the History of Medicine_ current and in-progress issues.

*White, Kerr. Health Care Collection Online Bibliography and Exhibit. University of Virginia Health Sciences Library.
"...a unique resource of materials on national and international
health care systems, health policy studies, health services research,
and epidemiology."
Reference: Klein JE. The Kerr White health care collection online bibliography
and exhibit. Watermark 19(3):73-76, summer 1996

*Yale University Library. Manuscripts and Archives.
Or Email
Health sciences material includes bioethics and contemporary
medical care and health policy collections.

ASSOCIATIONS

*American Association for the History of Medicine.

*American Association for the History of Medicine. 1998 Annual Meeting.

*American Association for the History of Nursing
*orEmail
This site contains membership information, a "Primer on Nursing History," "Resources for History of Nursing" and more.

*American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Historical Archives

*American Osler Society

*Australian Academy for the History of Pharmacy

*Canadian Association for the History of Nursing

*Cheiron: The International Society of the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

*Chicago Pathology Society. History.

*European Association for the History of Medicine and HealthSEE ALSO: EAHMH Publications

*European Association for the History of Psychiatry

*Group of History and Theory of Science. State University of Campinas, Brazil.
[foundations, methodology and history of science, medicine and technology]

*History of Science Society
This site contains links to a number of history of medicine
sites.

*International Network for the History of Public Health

*International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

*John Austin Society

*John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, Inc.

*Lucy Lincoln Drown Nursing History Society

*Manitoba Society for the History of Medicine

*Medical Library Association. History of the Health Sciences Section.

*Ohio Academy of Medical History

*St. Bartholomews and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. History of Medicine Society.

*Societat Catalana d'Historia de la Ciencia i de la Tecnica

*Societat Catalana d'Historia de la Medicina

*Society for the History of Medicine

*AWARDS

*Texas Heart Institute Award for Undergraduate Writing in the History of
Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

*Aschoff, Jurgen C. Tibetan Medicine: Annotated Bibliography 1789-1995

*Birth Control in the U.S./1920s[H-WOMEN]

*Civil War Medical History Bibliography. College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

*Female Doctors and Midwives in China[H-WOMEN}

*Greek and Roman Medicine: An Introductory Bibliography

*HISTLINE: U.S. National Library of Medicine History of Medicine database.

*History of American Medicine and Related Health Fields. Bibliography of Recent Secondary Works.
This excellent resource is based at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Special Collections, Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine.

*International Bibliographic Guide to the History of Pathology
ContactProf. DR.med. Axel W. Bauer
Contains entries for more than 1300 articles and monographs

*Medieval Medical Bibliography: Part of the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies

*Midwives Bibliography:Part of the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies

*Native American Health History [1764-1965]

*Ohio: Selected Biblography of Medical History

*Resources for Medical History Papers by Dale C. Smith

*Social History of Medicine[H-WOMEN]

*Universidad Complutense de Madrid Library. Catalogue of Incunabula and Rare Books of Medicine and Related Sciences.

BIOTECHNOLOGY

*University of California, San Francisco. Biotechnology Archives.

*BLOODLETTING

*Bloodletting Exhibit. History and Special Collections Division, Louis M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA

*BOOK DEALERS/PUBLISHERS

*Adeva Rare Book Facsimilie Publisher

*Alder, Jerry-Inc.[email]

*Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
Catalogs and other information on numerous dealers, many of whom offer medical items.

*Antiquariat fur Medizin

*Association of American University Presses
At this site, pick the option "By Subject" under "Search the Book Catalog." Then choose "Medicine" and search for the term "history." A lengthy list of medical history titles will be returned.

*Ayer History of Medicine

*B & L Rootenberg
Rare books and manuscripts dealer with a specialty in science,
medicine and technology. Alternative email

*Doctor's Library or Email

*Fye, W. Bruce, MD[email]

*Gach, John-Books, Inc.[email]

*Gaskell, Roger-Rare Books or alternate[email]

*Geller, Esther[email]

*Glaser, Edwin V.[email]

*Goodrich, James Tait[email]

*Hill, Jonathan A.[email]

*Mauer, Steve[email]

*Medi-Ed Press[email]

*Medical Staff Press
MSP is a new press dedicated to publishing books related to U.S.
Civil War medicine and surgery

*Norman, Jeremy--Publishing
-Email Orders
-Martha Steele, Managing Editor

*Oak Knoll Books[email]

*Palinurus Antiquarian Books[email]

*Philadelphia Rare Books and Email

*Plurabelle Books [U.K.]

*Ramer, Bruce J.[email]

*Schoen Books[email]

*Science History Publications/Watson Publishing International

*Trotting Hill Park Booksellers[email]

*UHR Books

*Zubal, John T.-Inc.[email]

*BOOKS

*Books On-line: Call Numbers Starting with R. Carnegie Mellon University.
Part of the massive online books project at CMU. As of 9/96, this
section had 18 titles, including such historical ones as Defoe's
_Journal of the Plague Year_ and works by Galen and Hippocrates.

*Culpeper, Nicholas. The English Physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation[1652]

*Fuchs, Leonhard. Primi de stirpium [1545]

*Electronic Texts in the History of Medicine. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

*Galen. On the Natural Faculties
Two other works are also at this location.

*Gould, George M. and Walter L. Pyle. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medcine. 1896. A Project Gutenberg text released in December 1996. Available as a (huge) plain text file or compressed file: aacom10.txt or aacom10.zip. Project Gutenberg texts (there are over 800 available now) can be found at numerous locations on the net, including a usually reliable Silicon Valley site.

*Hartshorne, Henry. The Household Cyclopedia of General Information...[1881] [written by a physician; contains extensive medical info]

*Hippocrates. Works.

*Roland, Charles G. Courage Under Siege: Disease, Starvation and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto.Oxford University Press, 1992
Two long excerpts and ordering information.

*Science Textbooks and Historical Science Online

*Young, Robert M. Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. 1970.
This site contains numerous other items by Professor Young.

BOTANICAL MEDICINE

*Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
This site include much historical material, including
1100 photographs, engravings and other illustrations;
classic monographs on plant pharmacy; and issues of
the journal _Ellingwood's Therapeutist_ 1909-1915

CARDIAC SURGERY

*Khan, Mohammed Nasir. Relief of Mitral Stenosis: An Historic Step in Cardiac Surgery

*Pioneers of Heart Surgery

*CHEMISTRY

*Discussion Forums

*CHEM-HIST
Established in January 1997. Supported by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine in Jerusalem, and the German Chemical Society's History Division. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe CHEM-HIST" (without quotes) to maiser@listserv.ngate.uni-regensburg.de

*Other

*Chemical Heritage Foundation

*Engel, Michael. Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Chemie

*German Chemical Society. History Group. Annual Meeting. Marburg and Giessen, 13-15 March 1997.
Program.

*Historical Online Chemistry Textbooks

CHINESE MEDICINE

*ChiMed: The History of Chinese Medicine Webpage

*Christopher Cullen Home Page [sci/tech/med in China]

CHIROPRACTIC

*Redwood Chiropractic. An Overview of Chiropractic.
This commercial site in Petaluma, California includes a brief history.

CIRCUMCISION

*History of Circumcision [Circumcision Information and Resource Pages]

CONTRACEPTION

*Hall of Contraception [see also Museum of Contraception]
Note: By William Petrick. Toronto, Canada. Sponsored by Ortho-McNeil, Inc.

*Museum of Contraception
An account by Susan McCarthy of her visit to this museum in Toronto sponsored by Janssen-Ortho.

DENTISTRY

This page is part of the WWW site of the UAB Department of Anesthesiology http://www.anes.uab.edu/