History of Medicine Links
Here are some links about health, disease and medicine in history. These links are all external, so I can't take the credit for any content. If any are broken, or you know of other good ones I could add, please contact me.
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
Home page of David Wootton’s excellent and controversial book.
Florence Nightingale -
A project to publish all Florence Nightingale’s surviving work.
Florence Nightingale's letters
Transcripts plus images of the originals, from the University of Kansas.
Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London
This fascinating museum is well worth a visit, but it also has a very helpful website, with a searchable catalogue of the delightfully gruesome exhibits.
Transcripts of Edward Jenner’s treatises on vaccination.
Large catalogue of internet resources related to medical history.
Author Geoffrey Rivett describes in detail the first 60 years of the NHS, focusing on ‘what has happened, rather than what people and politicians plan, hope or think will happen.’
Obsolete 18th-
Dating from 1822, the former operating theatre of the women’s ward of St Thomas’s Hospital has been newly restored.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Digitised 18th and 19th century journals courtesy of the Bodleian Library.
Extensive archive of life sciences journals, including the Wellcome Trust’s Medical History.
RCN Archive of Historic Nursing Journals
Digitised versions of The Nursing Record, beginning in 1888
Rudy’s List of Archaic Medical Terms
Not all of them are archaic, but they’re all interesting.
Transcript of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letter describing inoculation in Turkey in the early 18th century.
Tayside Medical History Museum
Teratology -
The New York Academy of Medicine’s online exhibition about monsters and freaks from antiquity to 1800.
UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery
You can search the library’s catalogues and view an extensive collection of historical and contemporary medical images.
