Internet Resources

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Databases for the History of Medicine

Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. U.S. Army. Series 1: This is a pilot release of NLM's IndexCat search system.

PubMed - A new subject subset (formerly known as HISTLINE), "History of Medicine," is now available on the Subset pull-down menu on the PubMed "Limits" screen.

DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided. (Search for the phrase "History of Medicine.")

Indexing the Web

These sites aim to list, index, or inventory the great variety of material appearing on the Web that relates to the history of medicine and science.

Cataloguing, Annotating, and Reviewing Sites on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links
Medical Library Association, History of the Health Sciences Section

Karolinska Institute History of Biomedicine, Sweden

MedHist - From the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust.

Natural History on the WWW
A web resource of the Natural History Museum, London.

Repositories of Primary Sources

Library Catalogs

LOCATORplus
The web catalog of the National Library of Medicine

WILDCat
The online catalog of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine via telenet.

Images on the Web - People, Places, and Things

American Nurses Association Hall of Fame

Burns Archive Medical Collection

DScriptorium

Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Images
University of Pennsylvania Library / Center for Electronic Text & Image. Images of Scientists, Philosphers, and Lab Equipment.

Founders of Neurology - A Photographic Exhibit

Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

The Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI) 2001 Pilot Project
The Index of Medieval Medical Images with digitized images linked to the cataloging.

Images from the History of Medicine
This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The Picture Library of the Natural History Museum, London

4000 Years of Women in Science

Bookdealers

Advanced Book Exchange

Alibris

Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

BookFinder

Museums

Dittrick Medical History Center

National Museum of Health and Medicine