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ANCIENT PERIOD - 499 A.D.
- Atlas
of the Greek and Roman World - U of
North Carolina
- Briefly about the Mycenaean
Civilization - Perseus/Tufts U.
- Medicine
in Ancient Greece, and about Greek
& Roman Surgical Instruments -
The Asclepion/U. of Indiana (US)
- About Apollo
[R Tuccinardi], and some
pictures - Univ. of Haifa Library
(IL)
- About Aesculapius
[G Chronowski], and an illustration
[beotian krater] - Haifa (IL)
- Ancient
Greek Science Resources
- About Hypnos
and Morpheus
- Hannover College
- Medicine
in Homer - U of Indiana
- About Healer
Cults and Sanctuaries - U of Virginia
- About the Asklepieion
at Epidauros [AD Barr]
- About the Sanctuaries of Asklepios at Epidauros
and Pergamon
- Perseus Proj., Tufts Univ. (US)
- The
Library of Alexandria, [Perseus
Proj., Tufts Univ.], and Some
More Links [A. Ashmawy] via
the Alexandria Page.
- Alexandrian
Medicine - U of Virginia
- About Herophilus
of Chalcedon (ca. 320 - unknown BC)
and Erasistratus
of Chios (ca. 304 - ca. 250 BC) -
Univ. of Virginia/Astronomy (US)
- 18th Century Paintings of Erasistratus
Discovering the Cause of Antiochus'
Disease - Ecole Nat'l Sup. des
Beaux-arts (FR)
- Hippocrates,
father of Medicine - and the Island
of Kos - (GR)
- Hippocrates
Page at Asclepeion hospital, Athens
(GR)
- Hippocrates:
The "Greek Miracle" in Medicine
[AE Hanson]
- Selected
Works by Hippocrates - Tech Classics
Archive (US).
- The Oath
of Hippocrates - (US).
- About Unani
Medicine - Niamath Research Found.
- About Aristotle
[B. Christensson] - (SE)
- Selected
Works by Aristoteles - Tech Classics
Archive (US).
- About the Pyxis
- Perseus Project, Tufts Univ. (US).
- The Presocratic
Influence upon Hippocratic Medicine [C.
Colarusso] - Perseus Proj., Tufts
Univ. (US)
- Aristotle
on Teeth [A. Marcogliese] -
Perseus Proj., Tufts Univ. (US)
- Plato,
Aristotle, and "Hippocrates" on
the Heart [A. Marcogliese] -
Perseus Proj., Tufts Univ. (US)
- About Cataract
Surgery in Antiquity - AAO (US)
- Brief Note about Dioscorides
(ca. 20 AD) - U of Virginia (US)
- Plant
Classification Among the Greeks [Robin
?] - Perseus Proj., Tufts Univ. (US)
- A Brief History
of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy [J
Weissman] - Perseus Proj., Tufts
Univ. (US)
- On Garlic's
Ancient Serpent Connection [JM
McMahon] - Le Moyne Coll.
- On the Plague
in Athens [Thucydides: 2.48-55]
- Perseus Proj., Tufts Univ. (US) and
about a Mass
Burial - via Archaeological Inst. of
America
- The
Thucydides Syndrome: Ebola Déjà Vu?
[Olsen et al] - CDC (US), and a
brief note about Thucydides
- Museo Virtual de la Sanidad (ES)
- History
of the Olympics - Aachen (DE)
- About Etruscan
and Roman Medicine and The
Doctor in Roman Society - U of
Virginia
- Vatican Library Exhibit: Medicine
& Biology - NCSA/University of
Illinois (US)
- Vatican Library Exhibit: Medicine
& Biology - NCSA/University of
Illinois (US)
- On
the Physical Death of Jesus [Edwards
et al.]
- About the Forum
Romanum [Bonenkamp, Mentink &
Horsthuis]- Hengelo (NL)
- About Galenus
- EuroMed, Inc. (NL)
- Galen
Pharmacy - (AU)
- Selected
Works by Galen - Tech Classics
Archive (US).
- Galen:
A Biographical Sketch [L.T. Pearcy]
- The Episcopal Academy, PA (US)
- Galen's
Theory of Dreams, and On
Diagnosis in Dreams [L.T.
Pearcy] - The Episcopal Academy, PA
(US)
- An excerpt from On
the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body
- Univ. of Kentucky (US),
- On Ancient
Theories & Therapies for
Psychopathology - Bladen
Library/Toronto (CA)
- Augustine:
Confessions - Wheaton College
- Doctrine
of Demons [W Doud] - Grace
Notes (US)
- A Note about the Hospital
at the Monastry of Pantokrator in
Constantinople - Museo Virtual de la
Sanidad (ES)
- Fanns
det läkare på Jesu tid? [T-L
Strindberg]
- Midwives
and Maternity Care in the Roman World
[V French]
- Ancient
Medicine - Medicina Antiqua - The
Episcopal Academy, PA (US)
- A Presentation of the Book Biblical
and Talmudic Medicine by J Preuss
- Greek
Theory & Roman Practice in Chemistry
[J. Plambeck] - Univ. of Alberta
(CA)
- Rotation
of the Elements [J. Opsopaus]
- Biblioteca Arcana
- About ancient Eleusis,
and Has
the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Been Solved? [I Valencic] -
(SI)
- On Ancient
Cures for Impotence - Wellness Web
- Some Antique
Roman Dishes [M Pantke]
- Avant
Les Alchimistes (in French) [M
D'Amboise] - (CA).
MEDIEVAL
PERIOD, 500 - 1450
EARLY
MODERN PERIOD, 1451 - 1600
- Biography
of Vesalius [RS Westfall] -
Rice Univ. (US).
- About some Works
by Vesalius - Vanderbilt U., and a woodcut
from his Fabrica
- About some Historical
Books [Vesalius, Bartish, Silvaticus]
in the Karolinska Institute Library (SE).
- Search the Bartisch
Ophthalmodouleia; Das Augendienst
slide collection at Duke Univ Med C
Libr (US).
- A
Tour of Ophthalmologic Illustrations
During the Renaissance [GOD
Rosenwasser] - Penn State U.
- Dante's
Inferno in print - Italnet, Univ. of
Notre Dame (US), and a Diagram
of the Inferno - CCCCD (US)
- Painting of Christ
Among the Doctors (1506) by Albrecht
Dürer - Web Museum, via Berkeley
- Natural
Magick by JB Porta [S Davis]
- (US).
- Some notes about Renaissance
herbal medicine - PlanetHerbs
- Anatomia
del corpo humano [J Valverde de
Amusco] - Vatican Library Exhibit
(US)
- A Picture
of Paracelsus - New York Academy of
Medicine Library (US)
- On Paracelsus
- Reynolds Library, Alabama (US)
- Paracelsus
and The Medical Revolution of the
Renaissance [AG Debus] - NLM
(US).
- About Nostradamus
[M Nevins]
- Some Anatomical
Drawings & Sketches by Leonardo da
Vinci [J. Pickrell] -
Leonardo Internet, a few More
Drawings from the Web Museum, and
some downloadable
drawings
- About
Leonardo da Vinci - Museum of Science
- Leonardo's Vitruvian
Man
- The
Triumph of Death by Pieter
Bruegel the Elder
- Tregement
der ghesontheyt [Maginus of Milan],
Dutch transl. 1514 - Koninklijke
Bibliotheek (NL)
- About Santorio
Santorio - Institute & Museum of
the History of Science, Florence (IT),
and some
more information - Rice Univ. (US)
- About Ambroise
Paré - Galileo Project
- Who
was Ambroise Paré? (1509-90) [CC
Snyder] - via (BE)
- History of the Royal
College of Surgeons of Edinburgh -
(UK)
- The Barber-Surgeon
Cabin onboard the Mary Rose,
Portsmouth, and the Giustiniani
Medicine Chest - Science Museum,
London (UK)
- History
of Medicine in Trastevere (Rome) -
Nerone The Insider's Guide (IT)
- Brief History
of Cesarean Section - NLM (US).
- Jesuits
and the Sciences 1540 - 1619 -
Virtual Science Library, Loyola Univ. of
Chicago (US)
- A Historical
View of Padova, including a note about
the Anatomy Theatre - (IT)
- A Virtual Tour of University
of Padova, incl the Anatomical
Theatre - (IT)
- Healing
Saints in Colonial Times [ER Leyva]
- Univ. Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco (MX)
- Tyburn
Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern
England
MODERN
PERIOD, 1601 -
- Some Historical
Notes from Naval Medicine [L.
Bruzelius] - Uppsala (SE),
- Some Historical
Documents on Scurvy - Vanderbilt U.
(US)
- About Gaspare
Tagliacozzi and Marcello
Malpighi [in Italian], in the History
of the Univ. of Bologna - (IT)
- "The
Anatomy Lecture" by Nicolaas Tulps
[Rembrandt 1632]
- About Olof
Rudbeck, the elder - Museum of
Natural History (SE)
- The Anatomy
Theatre at Leiden
- About William
Harvey (1578-1657) - U of Virginia
(US)
- A Note about William
Harvey - The Biotech Chronicles, his Portrait
- U Texas, and William
Harvey on The Circulation of Blood -
Texas Tech (US)
- William
Harvey and the Reception of the
Circulation Theory [J Brower]
- Horus Publ.
- A Brief Note on Giovanni
Alfonso Borelli - Inst & Museum
of the History of Science, Florence (IT),
and the History
of Spinal Biomechanics [Sanan
& Rengachary]
- An illustration of Descarte's
theory of vision, 1644
- Two
Centuries of Transistion in Chemistry
[J. Plambeck] - Univ. of Alberta
(CA)
- On The
Galen's Humours and the Rise of Mechanism
[S Jones] - (US)
- About Thomas
Willis - Rice Univ (US)
- About Robert
Boyle [A Terhakopian] -
Huntington Med Research Inst., Pasadena
(US)
- History of the Thermometer
[A. Van Helden] - (US)
- History of the Light
Microscope [TE Jones] - (US)
- History
of Microscopy in Malta [C
Savona-Ventura]
- Early Optics
Instruments at the Museum of Physics
Dept.,Naples (IT)
- Important
Dates in Vision Science 1660-1960 -
University of California/Irvine (US)
- About Antony
van Leeuwenhoek - Berkeley (US)
- Hidden
Secrets in the Royal Society Archive
(about A van Leeuwenhoek) [BJ Ford]
- (UK)
- Inside view of the Chemical
Laboratory at Univ. of Altdorf c. 1680
- History of Science Museum, Oxford (UK)
- Jesuits
and the Sciences 1540 - 1995 -
Virtual Science Library, Loyola Univ. of
Chicago (US)
- About Robert
Hooke - Berkeley (US)
- A Short History
of Chemistry in Leiden - (NL).
- On the Classical
View of the Mind [S Jones] -
(US)
- Phrenology:
The History of Brain Localization [RME
Sabbatini] - (BR).
- Pictures of The
Plague in 1665 [E. Stephan] -
(US).
--- 18th
Century ---
- Pictures of some Early
Chemical Laboratories - Deutsches
Museum OnLine, München (DE)
- The
Chemical Concepts of Lavoisier [J.
Plambeck] - Univ. of Alberta (CA)
- Lavoisier
- Scientist and Man of Enlightment [C.
Frejacques] - Musee des Arts &
Metiers (FR)
- Briefly about the Phlogiston
Theory - Michigan Tech
- A note about Giovanni
Batista Morgagni [I Carr] - U
of Manitoba (CA)
- About Joseph
Priestley [Stelter & Suarez]
- Oxygen
Therapy: The First 150 Years [L
Martin] - Mt Sinai Med C. (US)
- On the Origin
of the Celsius Temperature Scale [A
& J Santesson] - (NL)
- About Carl
Linnaeus - Uppsala U., and The
Linnaeus Server - NRM (SE)
- About Lamarck
& His Theory of Evolution [TE
Hart] - The Victorian Web (US)
- About Thomas
Malthus - Berkeley (US)
- Edward
Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
- U of S Carolina (US)
- About the Pasteur
& Galt Apothecary Shop in
Williamsburg - Virginia (US)
- About Amedeo
di Quaregna e Ceretto (comte Avogadro)
(in French) [M D'Amboise], his
essay on Avogadro's
hypothesis, and about Avogadro's
number
- Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society 1757--
- Oxford (UK)
---
19th Century ---
- About Justus
von Liebig
- Nils
Berner Sorensen: Therapia Generalis,
in Norwegian [H. Sandvik] - University of
Bergen (NO)
- Berzelius
- U of Virginia, and some more about Berzelius
- Museum of Natural History (SE).
- Some Selected Classic
Papers in Chemistry [C. Giunta]
- Le Moyne College (US)
- "Ich
bin (Dimitri I.) Mendeleev"
- Element(h)istory
[SJ Fairall]
- Hearing
Aids Before Electricity - Am. Acad.
of Otolaryngology
- Hearing
Aid History - Oticon (DK)
- Frankenstein
Exhibition - NLM
- The
Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier
(1808-1886) [RM Young] - (UK)
- Historical
Perspective on Pulmonary Medicine [L
Martin] - Mt. Sinai Med C. (US)
- Brief Note about Friedrich
Kekulé von Stradonitz
- About Urea
and Friedrich
Wöhler
- From
Quackery to Bacteriology: Emergence
of Modern Medicine in 19th Century
America - Univ. of Toledo (US).
- History
of the Charite of Berlin [HS
Schutta]
- Health
and Hygine in the Nineteenth Century
[L Douglas] - (UK)
- From E.
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
in Great Britain, 1842 [L. Del Col]
- Hinckley's
Who Was Who on Ether Day, Oct
16th, 1846 - Neurosurgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital (US).
- About Burke
and Hare, two body snatchers in 19th
century Scotland - Highlander Web
(UK)
- The
Resurrection Man in Georgia, [S.
Hunter] - (US)
- Classical
Works in Herbal Medicine [M.
Moore] - (US)
- About Louis
Braille
- History
of Reading Codes for the Blind -
Blindness Resource Center
- About Rudolph
Leuckart.
- About Florence
Nightingale, an article
about her life by CD Olson and
InterNurse, a short
excerpt of her voice [.wav format],
and a Selection
of Her Letters at Clendening Hist of
Med Libr (US).
- Sur le histoire
de l'urologie - Urologie CHU de
Bicetre (FR)
- About James
Marion Sims
- About A.
T. Still and the Birth of Osteopathy
[L Chaitow] - Health World
- A Brief
History of the Basal Ganglia [A.
Gillies] - Edinburgh (UK)
- Mind,
Brain and Adaptation in the 19th Century
[RM Young] - Sheffield (UK)
- MIND
and BODY: From Descartes to James and
about the History
of Mesmerism etc. [RH Wozniak]
- Bryn Mawr College
- The Freud
Web [D. Stevenson] - Brown
University (US)
- Sigmund
Freud and Vienna - (AT)
- C.G.
Jung
- Classics
in the History of Psychology [CD
Green] - York Univ. (CA)
- Brief Note about Ivan
Pavlov - Science Odyssey
- Pictures
of Some Famous Psychologists - Wayne
Univ. (US)
- On the History
of the Psychology Dept. at the
University College of London [J
Draper] - (UK)
- Adventures
With an Ice Pick, A Short
(Hi)Story on Lobotomy [Youngson &
Schott] - (US)
- Medical
Antiques (collection of medical
items)
- History
of the College of Medicine at the
University of Vermont (US)
- History
of Medicine in Utah - (US).
- On the History
of Medicine in Indiana - Ruth Lilly
Med Libr (US).
- Highlights in the History
of U.S. Army Dentistry [J. E.
King].
- Medicine
in US Civil War - Univ. of Toledo
(US).
- Images
from Orthopaedics Injuries of the US
Civil War - (US).
- About Léopold
Ollier [Fischer et al.]
- 1995:
Pasteur Year - (FR).
- Pasteur
ou le triomphe médical d'un non-médicin
[N. Oudar] - Institut Curie
(FR).
- Robert
Koch und Robert
Koch und die Medizin seiner Zeit, in
German [R Winau] - Berlin (DE)
- Dr.
Robert Koch - The People's Page/TV
program
- Koch's
Postulates [M Pallen] - (UK).
- The
Story of Dr. John Snow - JSI, Inc.
(US), and his Original
Cholera Map from 1854
- A Brief
History of Antisepsis [M. Kaplan]
- Medical
History of Nordhordland - University
of Bergen (NO)
- The
Origin of Species [C. Darwin],
- About Sir
Charles Lyell & Prof. TH Huxley, Charles
Darwin - (GR), and about Darwin's
home at Down House
- Introduction
to Evolutionary Biology [C. Colby]
from the talk.origins
archive (US)
- About Sir
William Osler (1849-1919)
- About Felix
Hoppe-Seyler [adapted from an
Editorial in Biol Chem Hoppe-Seyler, Aug
'95]
- About Ernst
Haeckel - Berkeley (US)
- The MendelWeb
[R.B. Blumberg] - via Brown
Univ. (US)
- History
of Genetics Web Page - Univ. of
California/Davis (US)
- Classic
Papers in Genetics [R. Robbins]
- (US)
- A note about Rudolf
Virchow [I Carr] - U of
Manitoba (CA)
- A Brief
Note about Rudolph Virchow by E.
Weisstein
- Rudolph
Virchow (1821-1902) [in German] -
(DE)
- About Theodor
Boveri - Wuerzburg U. (DE)
- About Felix
Hoffmann and Aspirin - Bayer Corp.
- A
History of Aspirin [AAJ Andermann]
- McGill (CA)
- The
Discovery of the Electron - American
Institute of Physics
- Electron
Centenary Year
- The
X-ray Century - December 1896
- The
Roentgen Centennial [R Terrass]
- From "Dr.
Gaskill's" Home Remedies - San
Diego (US)
--- 20th
Century ---
- Dentist
on a Camel: About HV Mattingley -
(AU)
- The
Nursling [P Budin 1907;
translated]
- Measuring
Heads [D.R. Johnson] - via
Univ. of Leeds (UK)
- About Lysenkoism
[B Carroll] - The Skeptic's
Dictionary (US)
- The History
of Uranium 1789-1939 [B.
Goldschmidt]
- Radioactivity:
Historical Figures - The Biotech
Chronicles (US).
- L'Institute
Curie et l'Histoire - (FR), and about
Marie
& Pierre Curie [N Fröman]
- A Brief History
of Radiology, especially at Boston's
Beth Israel Hosp. - (US)
- History
of Particle Beam Radiosurgery [SB
Tatter] - Neurosurgery MGH (US)
- Radiation
Oncology: 100 Years of Therapy and
Research - Penn State Univ./Radiology
- About R.
Sievert and the unit of radiation -
Dept. of Med. Radiation Physics, KI-KS
(SE).
- Historical
Anaesthetic Equipments in 1930
- Brief History
of Aneurysm Surgery - N.Y.U.
- On the History
of Extracorporeal Life Support - Univ
of Wisconsin
- The
History of the Electroencephalogram [RME
Sabbatini] - (BR)
- Milestones
in Cardiology - Franklin Institute
(US).
- The
Blue Baby Operation at Johns Hopkins
Hospital 1944 - (US).
- The History
of Cardiac Catheterization [CD
Lawrence] - Santa Fe Comm Coll (US).
- The
Relief of Mitral Stenosis [MN
Khan] - Texas Heart Inst (US).
- A Brief
History of Electrocardiography [D
Jenkins] - ECG Library (US)
- Heart
Transplantation - Historial View [SB
Arumugam] - Madras Medical Mission
(IN).
- 30
Jahre Hertztransplantation [WU
Eckart] - Heidelberg (DE)
- Pioneers
of Heart Surgery - NOVA Online
- Important Dates in the History
of Coloscopy - I, II,
and III
- Oncolink (US)
- History
of Laparoscopic Colectomy [Sgambat
& Ballantyne]
- From The
History of Laparoscopy -
Laparoscopy.Com (US).
- About Rebecca
Craighill Lancefield - Rockefeller
- About Classical
Adlerian Psychology - San Francisco
(US)
- About Otto
Loewi (1873-1961) - (IL).
- History
& Evolution of PET [RME
Sabbatini] - (BR).
- Brief
History of Computational Neuroscience,
a personal perspective - (US).
- Celebrities
in Cognitive Science - Univ. of
Colorado, School of Education (US)
- History
of Transplant Immunobiology [RJ
Duquesnoy] - U of Pittsburgh
- Brief Note on the History
of Immunosuppression [BD Kahan]
- Univ of Texas/Houston (US)
- Scots
in Medicine (the Hunter brothers, JJ
Lister, Sir A Fleming) - Scottish Soc. of
SW Michigan (US)
- Great
Canadian Scientists - Vancouver (CA)
- The
Discovery of Insulin
- About Sir
Fredrick Grant Banting - Well Known
Canadians Page, the Discovery
of Insulin - U of Toronto, the Story
of Insulin - (UK) and about a
14-year-old diabetic ... [N Larson]
- Texas Tech (US)
- About Linus
Pauling [J. Holler] - Univ. of
Kentucky (US), and another Brief
Note
- The Sir
Alexander Fleming Page [D Suskin]
- (US).
- About Alexander
Fleming 1881-1955, and an
illustration of How
Penicillin Kills Bacteria - Cells
Alive!
- About the History
of Penicillin [CJ Wong] -
Hawaii (US)
- The
Story of Penicillin - U of Edinburgh
(UK)
- Brief History
of Antibiotics - Hovione SA.
- About Gerhard
Domagk - Univ. of Münster (DE).
- A Century
of Obstetrics at Pennsylvania Univ.
Hospital (US).
- About Virginia
Apgar
- Celebrating 50
Years of Electron Microscopy & Modern
Cell Biology - Rockefeller Univ.
(US).
- About Oswald
Theodore Avery - Well Known Canadians
Page, and the collection
of biographic material at NLM/NIH
(US)
- History
of Genetics Timeline
- Thomas
Hunt Morgan and his Legacy [EB
Lewis]
- Recent
History of Genetics [RE Hurlbert]
- WSU (US).
- The
Search for DNA - The Birth of Molecular
Biology - Access Excellence
- A Brief
History of Biotechnology - The
Biotech Chronicles (US).
- About Holley,
Khorana, Nirenberg and the Genetic Code
- Nobel Foundation (SE)
- On the Discovery
of the DNA Structure and the Restriction
Enzymes - Access Excellence (US).
- A Brief
History of the Human Genome Project (
HUGO ) - CBBC/Dartmouth Coll.
- A Note on the History
of Human Cytogenetics [adapted from Therman
& Susman]
- A brief History
of Cloning - Gene Letter
- On the History
of Cholinesterases - Weizmann Inst.
(IL).
- Historical
Notes on Enzyme Technology - Novo
Nordisk (DK)
- 'LSD
- My Problem Child' [A. Hofmann;
transl.] - (US)
- About Jonas
Salk, his life & work - UPenn
(US)
- History
of Telemedicine - Telemed Research
Center
- Smallpox
Virus Faces Own Death
- Looking
Back at Jenner, Vaccine Developers
Prepare for the 21st Century [KS
Brown] - UPenn (US)
- US
Nat'l Inventors Hall of Fame
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