Links for the History of Diseases
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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
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
Epilepsy
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
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
Malaria
- From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
- The History of Malaria, an Ancient Disease
Measles
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
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
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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