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History of Medicine around the World

Historical Statistics

Scholarly Societies for the History of Medicine

Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Chicago Library

John Crerar Library Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine

Images are difficult to locate. Whether you are searching for a person, place, or thing, generally you will not be able to limit your search in a catalog or database to image based resources.

Generally, you will need to locate materials on your topic and inspect each resource to see if it contains the image you need. The list below represents some general print and online resources you can start with for your search.

• American medical imprints, 1820-1910 : a checklist of publications illustrating the history and progress of medical science, medical education, and the healing arts in the United States : a preliminary contribution / Francesco Cordasco ; foreword by James Tait Goodrich. Crerar Reference, floor 1 Z6661.U6C79
  
  
• Photographing medicine : images and power in Britain and America since 1840 / Daniel M. Fox and Christopher Lawrence. New York : Greenwood Press, c1988. Crerar Stacks R486.F690 1988
  
  
• The physician's art : representations of art and medicine / Julie V. Hansen & Suzanne Porter ; with a foreword by Martin Kemp. Durham, NC : Duke University Medical Center Library : Duke University Museum of Art, 1999. Crerar Stacks & Regenstein Stacks N8223.H367 1999
  
  
• AltaVista.com image search engine - try your luck finding specific images on the internet by using this interface.
  
  
• Images from the History of Medicine 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM); collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
  
  
• Exhibitions in the History of Medicine by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Topics include: Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM (2001) Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001) Emotions and Disease (2000) Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000) That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (2000) Breath of Life (1999) Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998) Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995) Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994) "If You Knew the Conditions ...;" Health Care to Native Americans (1994) Cesarian Section -- A Brief History (1993) Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993)
  • Images From the History of the Public Health Service: A Photographic Exhibit. This exhibit is an online version of Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service. It is organized according to the pagination of the original printed document located in the Crerar Stacks RA445.K66 1994
    
    
• Medical Antiques .com "An index of articles, photos, and research about medical antiques. Also discussed are the techniques of collecting the artifacts and sets associated with surgery instruments, leeching, bloodletting, drugs, and other aspects of medical science prior to 1900. "
  
  
• The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. "...comprises the major collections on loan from The American Medical Association, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The St. Louis Science Center, The Bakken Library, The National Council for Reliable Health Information and is supported by the The Phrenology Company of Golden Valley, Minnesota."
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery. The online database contains influential characters in British history and includes approximately 34,000 works, 11,500 of which are illustrated.
  
  
• Scientific and Medical Antiques. "Depository of information relating to scientific and medical antiques. This category includes telescopes, astronomy, microscopes, scales, electrical and magnetic items, calculating, drawing, surveying, navigation, meteorology, maps, globes, sliderules, astronomy, surgical instruments, bloodletting, pharmaceuticals and medical chests, electrotherapy devices, and more. "