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Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical science, public health, and allied sciences from about 1850 to the present.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
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Health Policy and Services Research
Read significant, specially-selected health services research grey literature content.
World War 1, 1914-1918
Explore publications ranging from unit histories to published personal narratives, accounts of relief work, and more.
World War 2, 1939-1949
Explore U.S. federal, state, and local government documents such as reports, first aid manuals, and pamphlets.
NLM Publications and Productions
View an archive of documents and videos created by NLM such as technical notes, bibliographies, reports, and lectures.
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
View and listen to films, video recordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009.
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Examine NLM historical books and journals published in the Americas that document the evolution of medicine.
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Access the rarest digitized books, nearly 300 printed in the English-speaking world from 1552 to 1800 and uniquely held here.
Incunabula
Examine books and broadsides from the infancy of the age of printing from the mid-1460s to 1520.
The Public Health Film Goes To War
Explore a curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films.
NIH Annual Reports
Read print annual reports issued by NIH Institutes and Centers from 1958 to 1993.
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
View 518 digitized English language monographs from 1817 to 1923 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period.
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Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical science, public health, and allied sciences from about 1850 to the present.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Access over 70,000 images in NLM collections from the 15th to 21st century.
Health Policy and Services Research
Read significant, specially-selected health services research grey literature content.
World War 1, 1914-1918
Explore publications ranging from unit histories to published personal narratives, accounts of relief work, and more.
World War 2, 1939-1949
Explore U.S. federal, state, and local government documents such as reports, first aid manuals, and pamphlets.
NLM Publications and Productions
View an archive of documents and videos created by NLM such as technical notes, bibliographies, reports, and lectures.
Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
View and listen to films, video recordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009.
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Examine NLM historical books and journals published in the Americas that document the evolution of medicine.
Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
Access the rarest digitized books, nearly 300 printed in the English-speaking world from 1552 to 1800 and uniquely held here.
Incunabula
Examine books and broadsides from the infancy of the age of printing from the mid-1460s to 1520.
The Public Health Film Goes To War
Explore a curated collection of eighteen rare and wonderful World War II-era health films.
NIH Annual Reports
Read print annual reports issued by NIH Institutes and Centers from 1958 to 1993.
Cholera Online, 1817 to 1923
View 518 digitized English language monographs from 1817 to 1923 dealing with the cholera pandemics of that period.
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The physiological actions of alcohol: abstract of a paper presented to the Section on Therapeutics of the first Pan-American Medical Congress, held at Washington D.C., September 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1893
A case of intubation of the larynx of unusual interest: with some remarks on the management of such cases
Cerebral palsy of childhood following diphtheria
The frequency of renal albuminuria: as shown by albumin and casts, apart from Bright's disease, fever, or obvious cause of renal irritation
The eye treatment of epileptics: a critical review of certain factors that may lead to convulsive seizures, and the treatment of epilepsy without drugs
I. Gall-bladder surgery: (a) one case of impacted gall-stones, perforation, death without operation : (b) four exploratory operations on the gall-bladder : (c) six cholecystotomies for gall-stones ; II. Large echinococcus cyst of the liver successfully obliterated by laparotomy and drainage
Circumcision: the last fifty of a series of two hundred circumcisions
The early removal of tubercular foci of the bone
Obliteration of congenital pigmentations: read in the Section on Dermatology and Syphilography at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association
Primary syphilis and gonorrhea in children: read in the Section on Diseases of Children, at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association
I. Two pregnancies following removal of both ovaries and tubes: II. Two peculiar cases of extra-uterine pregnancy ; III. Effect of hysterectomy upon the vagina
Some account of Baron Larrey, surgeon to the armies of France under Napoleon the First: read before the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Society
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Recently Digitized
The physiological actions of alcohol: abstract of a paper presented to the Section on Therapeutics of the first Pan-American Medical Congress, held at Washington D.C., September 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1893
A case of intubation of the larynx of unusual interest: with some remarks on the management of such cases
Cerebral palsy of childhood following diphtheria
The frequency of renal albuminuria: as shown by albumin and casts, apart from Bright's disease, fever, or obvious cause of renal irritation
The eye treatment of epileptics: a critical review of certain factors that may lead to convulsive seizures, and the treatment of epilepsy without drugs
I. Gall-bladder surgery: (a) one case of impacted gall-stones, perforation, death without operation : (b) four exploratory operations on the gall-bladder : (c) six cholecystotomies for gall-stones ; II. Large echinococcus cyst of the liver successfully obliterated by laparotomy and drainage
Circumcision: the last fifty of a series of two hundred circumcisions
The early removal of tubercular foci of the bone
Obliteration of congenital pigmentations: read in the Section on Dermatology and Syphilography at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association
Primary syphilis and gonorrhea in children: read in the Section on Diseases of Children, at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association
I. Two pregnancies following removal of both ovaries and tubes: II. Two peculiar cases of extra-uterine pregnancy ; III. Effect of hysterectomy upon the vagina
Some account of Baron Larrey, surgeon to the armies of France under Napoleon the First: read before the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Society
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IndexCatâ„¢
Search a database containing the bibliographic citations of all five printed series of the
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office
; with direct access to the NLM online catalog, LocatorPlus. It also contains eTK for citations to medieval Latin texts and eVK2 for medieval English texts
FDA Notices of Judgment
A digital archive of federal court case trial summaries involving products found to be in violation of the 1908 Pure Food and Drug Act
Profiles in Science
Explore digitized archival collections to learn about prominent scientists, physicians, and other 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health