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STORIA DELLA MEDICINA

STORIA DELLE MALATTIE

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New Drugs, New Vaccins, New Diseases - an interview with A Fauci, NIAID

Of the Epidemics, Book I and II [Hippocrates] - via MIT (US)

Some volumes Tracing the History of Disease Classification (1903 - 1938), and some Old Rare Books on Plague, Smallpox and Epidemiology - WHO Library

On the history of Microbes & Disease - Project BIO WWW/Iowa State U.

Disease in Human Evolution: The Re-emerge of Infectious Disease in the Third Epidemiological Transition [Armelagos et al]

Epidemics and Military Battles [T Mack] - Virginia Tech (US)

Infectious Diseases as Weapons [JW Waguespack ]

Bartlett's "Top Ten" in Infectious Diseases - Johns Hopkins (US)

Anatomy of an Epidemic

Historical effects of plant disease - Canadian Phytopathological Soc.

Climate Related Events and Social Consequences in human history, and before [GD Sharp]

El Niño and its health impacts - WHO

Medical Geography

World Population Estimates and Projections - UN '98

1976: A defining year in the emerging infections saga [LK Altman] - EIINet/Yale

Vaccines and Human Health [E Lowndes], and Milestones in Disease Eradication - CDC Wonder

Insects, Disease, and History [RKD Peterson] - U of Nebraska (US)

The rise and fall of infectious diseases - USA Today, May '96

OUTBREAK, addressing emerging diseases

Infectious Diseases Kill Over 17 Million People A Year, press rel. from WHO '96

Are All Diseases Infectious? [B Lorber, Nov '96] - ACP

An HIV/STDs: global epidemiological fact sheets - WHO

On Global Microbial Threats in the 1990's - White House/CISET (US)

Causes of Death in London 1665

A Bit of Medical History and Some More [L Martin] - Mt Sinai Med C

Sjukdomar förr och nu [in Swedish; H Björknäs] - (FI)

Om några Sjukdomar och sjukvård förr i Sverige [H Högman] - (SE)

Old Medical Terms [links; C Howells]

A List of Old Names of Medical Conditions/Diseases [A Williams]

Interpreting Diseases and Medical Terms in Old Documents [E West]

Historique de la Phytopathologie [in French] - INRA, Paris (FR)

From the History of Alcohol and Tobacco Use

Plague

About The Plague in Athens ca. 430 B.C. [Thucydides]
Plagues Since the Roman Empire - Virginia Tech/Entomology (US)
The Black Plague - The City College/Humanities & Arts (US)
The Black Death [L Wark] - Discovery Online
A Journal of the Plague Year [D Defoe] - Gutenberg Project
The Coming of Plague to Italy - Brown U. (US)
Causes of the Bubonic Plague [G de Chauliac; transl by M McVaugh] - (FR)
The Plague in France - (FR)
About Plague in Western Europe 1348-1530 - U of Virginia/Charlottsville (US)
Plagues and Peoples: the Columbian Exchange [I Carr] - U of Manitoba (CA)
Brief Note on the Scientific History of the Plague [E Janis] - (US)

Smallpox

Smallpox - historical aspects - U of Leicester (UK)
Chinese girl with smallpox [Ko-hong] - Museo Virtual de la Sanidad (US)
The Origin of Smallpox Vaccination
About the first recorded Smallpox vaccination
About Edward Jenner [RE Hurlbert] - WSU (US)
Jeffery Amherst and Smallpox Blankets [P d'Errico] - NativeWeb, and A Discussion
Koppevaksinen 200 år, in Norwegian (Smallpox Vaccine 200 Years) [OD Enersen] - ODE (NO)
Vaccines - How and Why - Access Excellence (US)
A Very Brief History of Vaccination - Connaught Lab. Ltd
About Robert Koch and Anthrax [RE Hurlbert] - WSU (US)
Smallpox Virus Faces Own Death
Lessons Learned from the Eradication of Smallpox [Dragon Ko et al.] - Princeton
Could Smallpox Re-Emerge at Rietfontein? - NIV, Witwatersrand (ZA)

AIDS

The AIDS History Project at GALEN, UCSF (US)
A Medical Mystery Unfolds (AIDS) - New York Hall of Science
Adults & children estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS 1997 - UNAIDS
First AIDS case traced to Congo - MS NBC News

Syphilis

Note on the Origin of Syphilis
The Syphilitic, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1496
Syphilis in History - CBC Radio (CA)
About Paul Erlich, Syphilis and Salvarsan [RE Hurlbert] - WSU (US)
Brief Note on the Historical & Social Impact of Syphilis [L Elder] - (US)

Yaws

Brief Note on the Origin of Yaws

Leprosy

What the Bible Says About Leprosy
Leviticus 13
Brief History of Leprosy - Travel Health Inf Service
First Leprosy Hospital in Barcelona - Museo Virtual de la Sanidad (US)
The Relevance of Futility: J de Turre (fl. 1313-1335) on the Treatment of Leprosy [L Demaitre] - Bull Hist Med/JHU (US)
Leprosy throughout the ages - Pandoras Box
Leprosy, A Medieval Diagnostic [L Osman]
Medical History from Nordhordland [H Sandvik] - UIB (NO)
The Global Leprosy Situation 1998 - WHO (CH)
Over ten million people cured of leprosy [May 98] - WHO (CH)

Rabies

On the History of Rabies [JC Resendez] - The Rabies Virus Home Page (US)

Cholera

Fighting Cholera With Maps [about J Snow and the Cholera Outbreak in London 1853-4] including Snow's map of Cholera Deaths and the Locations of Water Pumps - National Geographic
On Snow's Cholera Map
An inscription outside John Snow Pub
Naples in the Time of Cholera 1884-1911 [FM Snowden] - EIINet/Yale
About The Bread Woman of New Orleans
Telephone and Cholera (early 20th century) - NTT Digital Museum
About Cholera in Peru - U of Texas

Yellow Fever

The Panama Puzzle (Yellow Fever) [A Cann] - Leicester (US)
Brief Note About Carlos Finlay
On the Resurgence of Yellow Fever [TPC Monath] - Yale (US)

Tuberculosis

The History of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)/Homo Sapiens relationship - Brown Univ. (US)
Brief History of Tuberculosis & its Treatment - Nat'l Tuberculosis C. (US)
Historical Notes on Tuberculosis [J Harms] - via (IL)
Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis [Star and Bowker] - UIUC
The Captain of Death ... [DC Scheirer]
Romance and tragedy of tuberculosis: Edward Archibald's contribution ... [MA Entin]
About Nils Ryberg Finsen (Lupus Vulgaris) - Nobel Foundation (SE)

Asthma

Mind, Body, Spirit and From Symptom to Disease - Breath of Life, NLM Exhibit Mar '99 (US)

Otorhinlaryngeal Diseases

Otorhinlaryngeal Diseases in Old Age and in Famous Persons [A Pellant]

Influenza

Natural History of Human Influenza - CDC via HealthTouch (US)
1918 flu epidemic originated in pigs, study finds (Mar '97) - Lubbock Online
Influenza 1918 - WGBH Educ. Foundation
About The Spanish Flu - Relevance (US)
A Note about the Spanish Flu in San Diego - San Diego Historical Soc. (US)

Diphtheria

Memorial Poems from the Diphtheria Epidemic of 1876-78 (Santa Cruz County)

Tropical Diseases

A Brief History of Tropical Disease - Travel Health Inf Service
About Some Exotic Infections, with historical footnotes [E Uthman]
Important Dates in the History of Leishmaniasis - WHO
Important Dates in the History of Dracunculiasis - WHO
Important Dates in the History of Schistosomiasis - WHO
Brief History of Malaria - Travel Health Inf Service
From the History of Malaria [C Hynson]
Some Observations on Malaria and the Ecology of Central Macedonia in Antiquity [EN Borza] - U. of Indiana (US)
On the History & Distribution of Malaria [T Bradley] - U. of Leicester (UK)
Important Dates in the History of Malaria - WHO/Malaria Network
Stamp-ing out malaria - The Child's Doctor
The History of Malaria - IDRC (CA)
La malaria nella storia [in Italian] - Internet Scuola (IT)
Important Dates in the History of African Trypanosomiasis (or Sleeping Sickness) - WHO

Cytomegalovirus Infections

History of Cytomegalovirus [HD Riles, Jr] - Oklahoma (US)

Chagas Disease

About CJR Chagas - (BR)
Important Dates in the History of Chagas Disease - WHO

Leptospirosis

On the History of Leptospirosis - Belgrade (YU)

Puerperal Sepsis

About Puerperal Sepsis and Ignaz Semmelweiss [RE Hurlbert] - WSU (US)

Sickle Cell Disease

On the History of Sickle Cell Disease - MCET

Hepatitis, Viral

Notes on the History of Viral Hepatitis [J-S Wu] - (TW)
On the History of Hepatitis C - Hepatitis C Foundation

Neoplasms

History of Breast Cancer - Breast Cancer Soc. of Canada

Nutritional Diseases

From the History of Nutritional Diseases - Vanderbilt U. (US)

Scurvy

About James Cook and the Introduction of Lime Juice in the British Navy [L Bruzelius] - (SE)
James Lind: A Treatise of the Scurvy - 1753 [L Bruzelius] - (SE)

Beriberi

On the History of Thiamine (Vitamin B1) - Georigia State U. (US)
About Christian Eijkman

Pellagra

About Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra - Stetten Museum, NIH (US)

Mucopolysaccharide Disease

History of Knowledge of Mucopolysaccharide Diseases - via MGH

Phenylketonuria

PKU Discovery [MS Lubinsky]

Hippel-Landau Disease

From the History of Von Hippel Landau Disease - NIH (US)

Diabetes

A Short History of Discovery & Treatment of Diabetes [from Medieval & Renaissance History by BL Gordon] - (US)
On Diabetes [Araeteus the Cappodician, 150 AD]
Presentation of the 1923 Nobel Prize Laureates in Medicine [J Sjöquist] - (SE)
From ants to analogues [J MacCracken] - Postgraduate Medicine, Apr '97 (US)