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	CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL - http://phil.cdc.gov/ A collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
	In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS - http://www.history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/ Recordings and transcripts of oral histories about the discovery and early investigations of this mysterious and devastating disease.
	John Snow and Cholera - http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html The life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), with multimedia pages including the complete text of On the Communication of Cholera. Created by the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health.
	Edward Jenner - http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
	Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters - http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/ Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing

	How the Other Half Lives - http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.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.
	American History Sweatshop Exhibition - http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/ A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - http://www.hhs.gov/about/hhshist.html Historical highlights.
	The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts - http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/ Includes exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
	History of the National Hansen’s Disease Programs - http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/history.htm Timeline of U.S. government work in Louisiana aimed at the treatment of leprosy, patient rehabilitation, and related training and education.

	Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever - http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.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.
	Walter Reed Yellow Fever Papers at U. Va. - http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/collection.html 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
	Buchan's Domestic Medicine - http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.html An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
	Bulletin of the History of Medicine - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.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.
	Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History - http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/booksdocs_default.html 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

	Marketing Health: Britain 1945-2000 - http://marketinghealth.info An academic study by Virginia Berridge of the history of public health in Britain since 1945, using smoking as a model to analyse changes in policy and attitude.
	In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. - http://www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm In 1961 Dr. James Morison wrote an important paper on why people smoke: "Smoking Habits of Winnipeg School Children". He also wrote on nursing homes and public health.
	Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic - http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/Rushmem98.html Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
	Andrew Balfour of Khartoum - http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
	Germ Theory Calendar - http://germtheorycalendar.com/ A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900

	Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century
	World Health Organization Historical Collection - http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/ Archives of manuscripts, images, and other materials on epidemics of past centuries and recent times, international health organizations, history of public health systems in various countries, and other topics related to WHO's mission.
	Images From the History of the Public Health Service - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.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.

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