- American Experience: The Boy in the Bubble
Considers the life of David Vetter, born with no immune system and famed as the boy in the plastic bubble. Features footage of his life, information about his family and doctors, and opinions about the ethics surrounding his life and death.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bubble
- Dentist on a Camel
Pictorial history of the pioneering dentist H.V. Mattingley and his exploits on the Western Australian goldfields before the turn of the century.
www.alphalink.com.au/~vaux
- Drug Trade: Therapy, Pharmacy, and Commerce in Early-Modern Europe
Exhibition presents pharmacy jars, manufactured from the 16th to the 18th century, with their printed herbals, at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/drugtrade
- Anatomia 1522-1867
A searchable collection of illustrations of human anatomy from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia
- The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations
Features Loren Carey MacKinney's collection of images from medieval medical manuscripts. From the University of North Carolina.
www.lib.unc.edu/dc/mackinney
- History of Medicine
www.galaxy.com/galaxy/Medicine/History.html
- Historic Medical Sites in the Washington, DC Area
Tour of important medical landmarks, including medical schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, memorials, and Civil War sites.
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/medtour.html
- Bloodletting
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Bloodletting
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