Links for the History of Diseases

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

• AIDS Posters: UCLA Digital Library Program
• Déja Vu: AIDS in Historical Perspective
• In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS

Anthrax

• History of Anthrax - Anthrax Through the Ages
• Timeline: Anthrax Through the Ages

Cancer

• The History of Cancer 

Cholera

• Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Text and Images
• John Snow: A Historical Giant in Epidemiology
• Thomas Shapter : The History of the Cholera in Exeter 1832

Diabetes

• The History of Diabetes (American Diabetes Association)
• The History of Diabetes (Canadian Diabetes Association)

Diphtheria

• Diphtheria: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy: Historical Overview
• Epilepsy Museum in Kork, Germany

Gaucher Disease

• Roscoe Brady & Gaucher Disease

Heart Disease

• The Blue Baby Operation
• Cut to the Heart
• Framingham Heart Study: Fifty Years of Research Success
• Partners of the Heart: Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas 

Hemophilia

• History of Bleeding Disorders
• History of Hemophilia (Canada)

Infectious Diseases

• Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
• The History of Vaccination
• The History of Vaccines
• The History of Vaccines (College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Influenza

• 1918 Influenza Digital Archive
• The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Bibliography
• Influenza, 1918 - The American Experience (PBS)

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)

• Global Project on the History of Leprosy
• Leprosy Trials and Treatment: A Brief History
• National Hansen's Disease Museum

Lupus Erythematosus

• What is the History Of Lupus Erythematosus?

Malaria

• From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
• The History of Malaria, an Ancient Disease

Measles

• Measles: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia) 

Mental Illness

• History of Madness in Canada
• The Lobotomist - The American Experience (PBS)
• Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness - A Brilliant Madness (PBS)

Pellagra

• Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra
• Pellagra in Alabama: A Valiant Struggle Against "The Red Death" (Reynolds Library, UAB) 

Plague

• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722)
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

The Black Death

• The Black Death - BBC Online
• The Black Death and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. Hecker (1832)
• Black Death & the Jews 1348-1349

Polio

• About Jonas SalkAlbert B. Sabin, M.D
• History of Polio
• Polio: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
• Iron Lung
• Sr. Elizabeth Kenny
• What Ever Happened to Polio?

Smallpox

• The Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication
• Smallpox: Eradicating the Scourge
• Smallpox: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
• Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death (from Annals of Internal Medicine)

Syphilis

• The Scientific Career of Paul Ehrlich

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis History in Canada (Canadian Lung Association)
• The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France by David Barnes (1995)
• Tuberculosis (TB) History
• Famous People Diagnosed With Tuberculosis

Typhoid

• The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary - Nova (PBS)
• Typhoid Mary - Teaching American History in Maryland
• Walter Reed and Typhoid Fever, 1897-1911: Illuminating a Different Civil War

Yellow Fever

• Carlos Juan Finlay
• The Great Fever (American Experience) (PBS)
• History - Walter Reed
• Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
• Yellow Fever: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Last updated 30 July 2015

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