By Topic
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- Henry VIII Stamped Out Industrial Revolution
- Article in the Telegraph reporting that archaeologists have found evidence that Cistercian monks in Yorkshire were developing a prototype blast furnace when they were evicted by the king in 1538. (June 21, 2002)
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- Bartleby.com: Sir Charles Lyell
- Includes etexts of scientific papers, "The Progress of Geology" and "Uniformity of Change".
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- GSA History of Geology Division
- Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work.
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- HESS: History of the Earth Sciences Society
- International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History.
- 166
- Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
- Mathematical details of Lord Kelvin's young earth calculation, from a course in applied fourier analysis. In PDF format. [PDF]
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- The Great Devonian Controversy
- A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy.
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- Before Depression
- A research project by the English departments of the Universities of Northumbria and Sunderland on what depression was before it was called depression (1660-1800). Details of public lectures, a conference, an exhibition and publications.
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- ECG Library: A (Not So) Brief History of Electrocardiography
- An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).
- 170
- Every Man His Own Doctor
- An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
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- Flash-Med:Medicine history and trivia
- Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.
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- Global Project on the History of Leprosy
- The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.
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- Health Service Development and History
- Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave
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- History of Anaesthesia
- GASMAN - A Personal History of Anaesthesia; A memoir and commentary by English anaesthetist John Powell. It also includes other articles on the History of Anaesthesia.
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- Mad in America
- A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.
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- Prize Microscopes Awarded by the New York Homeopathic Medical College. 1874-1916
- The New York Homeopathic Medical College awarded a prize microscope to the best graduates. This article is about this practice and it describes 5 of these prize microscopes.
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- Spanish American War Medicine
- Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.
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- The Origins of Chinese Medicine
- A short account by Imre Galambos of the origins of Chinese medical texts (1996).
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- The Rise of Scientific Medicine
- Course notes and presentations from University of Stanford course which explores the historical development of cultural beliefs and institutions in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which led to the establishment of the modern system of medicine.