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HIS 238 Web Sources

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress:
Is tuberculosis a disease of environment only? / by H. McHaton [sic]. 18--
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition Berliner, Emile. Washington, D. C.: Jim Publication Company , 1919.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940-- There are histories describing home medical practices. Use home medical practices as keyword. Histories also cover other diseases--search by ailment.

From the Documenting the American South Collection:
William Gleitsmann, 1840-1914 Mountain Sanitarium for Pulmonary Diseases, Asheville, N. C.
The Pickford Sanitarium. For Consumptive Negroes. Southern Pines, N.C., n.d.
The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths, 1880s.
The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor , 1849.">
General Directions for Collecting and Drying Medicinal Substances of the Vegetable Kingdom: List and Description of Indigenous Plants, etc., Their Medicinal Properties, Forms of Administration, and Doses., 1862.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs, 1863.
Standard Supply Table of the Indigenous Remedies for Field Service and the Sick in General Hospitals, 1863.
Rowan County Medical Society Tariff of Fees, 1854
Important! Hookworm Disease Treated Free, 1913
Lincoln Hospital (Durham, N.C.) Thirty-Eighth Annual Report, 1938.
State Hospital (Raleigh, N.C.) Biennial Report of the State Hospital at Raleigh, Raleigh, N. C., from July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1926.
North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. North Carolina and Its Resources, 1896
The Southern Sanitarium, 1897
Free Anti-Typhoid Treatment. The Columbus County Campaign of Protection Against Typhoid Fever Will Occur from November 1st to November 27th, 1920.
John A. Wyeth (John Allan), 1845-1922 With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon, 1914
Thomas William Burton, b. 1860 What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton, 1910.

From Making of America:
Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody. An invaluable collection of about six hundred practical recipes, 1860.
Family Homoeopathy, 1879.

Miscellaneous:
Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera Home Page
UVa-HSL :: Historical Collections, Exhibits
UM Polio Images
American Red Cross Museum
Historical New Haven Health Documents
Health Retreat--Asheville, North Carolina: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
American Social Hygiene Posters
Medicine and Madison Avenue
UCLA Folkmed Database - Search Page
From Birth to Death at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition--online documents
MarthaBallard's diary--doing history
History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
MedHist: The gateway to Internet resources for the History of Medicine
Eugenics Archive
UCLA Biomedical Library History & Special Collections: Online Exhibits & Projects
Black Folk Medicine in Appalachia
Exhibitions in the History of Medicine, from the National Library of Medicine.
From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America--from the University of Toledo Libraries.
The Images from the History of Medicine collection from the National Library of Medicine.

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