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How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives The Hypertext Edition Studies among the tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis with illustrations chiefly from photographs by the author.
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Welcome to The Public Health Museum Homepage
The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts is housed in the Old Administration Building of Tewksbury Hospital. The hospital was established in 1852 as a state almshouse to care for the poor including a growing number of immigrants. It became the Tewksbury State Hospital in 1900, the Massachusetts State Infirmary in 1908 and Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary in 1938. It is now known as ...
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Public Health Service Bicentennial Page
On July 16, 1798, President John Adams signed a bill into law that created what we now know as the U.S. Public Health Service. This web site is designed to help people learn more about public health and about the PHS during its Bicentennial year.
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Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever
An on-line history of Dr. Benjamin Rush's efforts to fight yellow fever in America in the 1790s, by Bob Arnebeck, with documents from the period ...
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Overview of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is an extensive compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs, negatives, and artifacts spanning a period of almost one hundred years. This array of items occupies seventy-two linear feet of shelf space and 147 boxes in the Department of ...
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Germ Theory Calendar
The Germ Theory Calendar by William C. Campbell Copyright 2002 William C. Campbell. All rights reserved. ...
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HHS History
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS: Historical Highlights The roots of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services go back to the earliest days of the nation. 1798 The first Marine Hospital, a forerunner of today's Public Health Service, was established to care for seafarers. 1862 President Lincoln appointed a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to serve in the new Department of ...
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Domestic Medicine - Contents
It had been my original intent to begin this feature with an exposition of the historical significance of Dr. Buchan's book, but then I happily learned that task had already been done by a latter day colleague of his, by means of a webpage at Harvard Medical School.
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Rush's Account of the 1798 Epidemic
Return to 1798 introduction return to home page return to documents An Account of the Bilious Yellow Fever As It Appeared in Philadelphia in the Year 1798 by Benjamin Rush The yellow fever of the year 1797 was succeeded by scarlatina, catarrhs, and bilious pleurisies, in the months of November and December of the same year. The weather favoured the generation of the latter diseases. It became ...
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