Déja Vu: AIDS in Historical Perspective

In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS

Anthrax

History of Anthrax - Anthrax Through the Ages

Timeline: Anthrax Through the Ages

Cancer

The History of 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

Sir Frederick Banting Digital Library

The History of Diabetes

Epilepsy

Epilepsy: An Historical Overview

Epilepsy Museum in Kork, Germany

Gaucher Disease

Roscoe Brady & 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

History of Bleeding Disorders

History of Hemophilia (Canada)

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

Influenza Digital Archive: The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document 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

What is the History Of Lupus Erythematosus?

Malaria

From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age

The History of Malaria, an Ancient Disease

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

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722)

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

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 Salk

Albert B. Sabin, M.D

History of Polio

Iron Lung

Sr. Elizabeth Kenny

What Ever Happened to Polio?

Smallpox

The Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication

Smallpox: Eradicating the Scourge

Smallpox: Innoculation, Vaccination, Eradication

Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death (from Annals of Internal Medicine)

Syphilis

The Scientific Career of Paul Ehrlich

Tuberculosis

Human Impact of Tuberculosis - Canadian Lung Association

The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France by David Barnes (1995)

TB History

Typhoid

Famous People Diagnosed With Tuberculosis

The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary - Nova (PBS)

Typhoid Mary - Teaching American History

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

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