Section: Medical
 

Directory: New York City History
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Sub Section: Physicians/Surgeons
Web Link: 1916 Physicians Registered as Qualified Examiners in Lunacy In New York State
Web Link: 1933 List of Fellows Deceased (Am. College Surgeons)
Web Link: 1934 List of Fellows Deceased (Am. College Surgeons)
Web Link: 1936 List of Fellows Deceased (Am. College Surgeons)
Web Link: 1935-36 Medical Directory-Physicians from Brooklyn
Web Link: 1935-6 Medical Directory List of Physicians from Queens County
Web Link: 1935-6 Medical Directory List of Physicians from Richmond County
Web Link: Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman M.D.
Web Link: Sara Josephine Baker: Physician Health Worker 1873-1945
Web Link: Dr. Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Web Link: Female Doctors During World War I
Web Link: New York's First Lady Doctor
Web Link: College of Physicians & Surgeons Obituary Database                               
Sub Section: Hospitals
Article The Roosevelt Hospital 1872                                        Posted 8/26/09
Article The Presbyterian Hospital in New York City                 Posted 8/26/09
Article St. Luke's Hospital in New York City                             Posted 8/26/09
Article New York Hospital   1872                                              Posted 8/26/09
Article St. Vincent's Hospital                                                     Posted 8/26/09
Article Mount Sinai Hospital                                                       Posted 8/28/09
Article The Nursery and Child's Hospital                                   Posted 8/29/09
Article Bellevue Hospital 1872                                                   Posted 8/28/09
Article New York Eye and Ear Infirmary                                    Posted 8/29/09
Article The Woman's Hospital of the State of N.Y.                    Posted 8/29/09
Article Institution for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled    Posted 8/29/09
Web Link: 1914-1915 New York Sanitariums
Web Link: 1914-1915 Hospitals, Homes, New York State
Web Link: 1916 State Hospital Commission-State Hospitals For The Insane
Web Link: 1935 Hospitals (Brooklyn-Queens-Richmond)
Web Link: 1935 Hospitals of New York State
Web Link: 1935-6 Manhattan & Bronx Hospitals/ Physicians List
Web Link: Hospitals & Institutions Of Washington Heights & Inwood
Web Link: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Web Link: St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan
Web Link: New York Methodist Hospital
Web Link: The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Historical Timeline
Web Link: History of The New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
Web Link: The History of Bellevue Hospital
Web Link: Current Hospitals in New York City
Web Link: New York Hospital Adopts the "Pap Smear"-1939
Web Link: Sea View Hospital Ruins: A photographic tour of the ruins of the historic Staten Island hospital (listed here as hospital X).
Web Link: The Significance of Seaview Hospital and the Surrounding Historic District
Web Link: The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Web Link: Cabrini Medical Center
Web Link: Sloane Hospital For Women-History
Web Link: Jamaica Hospital History
Web Link: Kings Park State Hospital:  Long Island (Photos)
Web Link: Disturbing Facts About Asylums
Web Link: Moral Medicine: New York Hospitals in the 1800's
Web Link: New York City Hospitals
Sub Section: Medical Miscellaneous
Web Link: 1914-15 Medical Colleges of New York
Web Link: 1914-15 New York State Board of Medical Examiners
Web Link: 1914-15 Medical Libraries & Departments of New York State
Web Link: 1914-15 Societies Relating To Medicine & Surgery
Web Link: 1914-15 Medical Journals of New York
Web Link: 1914-15 New York State Medical Laws
Web Link: 1916 Alumni Associations of New York Hospitals (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Richmond)
Web Link: 1916 Medical Memoriam of New York State October 18, 1915 thru October 10, 1916
Web Link: 1929 Medical Society of the State of New York: Constitution and By-Laws
Web Link: 1935-6 Advertisers From The Medical Directory
Web Link: 1935 New York State, Department of Health
Web Link: 1935-6 American Medical Society State of NY -Officers
Web Link: The School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Web Link: Origins of The National Institutes of Health: The Flags and Organizations
under Which It Has Served
Web Link: Medical Terminology for Genealogists
Web Link: Pharmaceutical Glossary
Web Link: Civil War and 19th Century Medical Terminology
Web Link: Sick and Wounded Transported to New York on the U.S. Transport Eastern
Queen-1862
Web Link: American Nursing Hall of Fame Inductees: A list of more than 50 nurses whose contributions  merit this award, with links to biographies.
Web Link:
Web Link: The Birth of Public Health in New York City
Web Link: New York City Department of Health: Chronology of Important Events 1655-1966
Web Link: New York Medical College: Mission & History
Web Link: Historian Rosner Chronicles Birth of Much-needed Public Health Department in
New York City.
Web Link: The New York Academy of Medicine
Web Link: United States Sanitary Commission Soldier's Home #1 (photo)
Sub Section: Diseases/Epidemics
Article Name: Number of Deaths From Various Diseases in Each Month in New York City 1853
Web Link: General Information and Disease List
Web Link: Tuberculosis in Immigrants 1911
Web Link: Gentle Hands: Fear of Polio Grips The Nation
Web Link: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1798 in New York
Web Link: A Short History of Yellow Fever in the U.S.
Web Link:
Web Link: Epidemics
Web Link: Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim?
Web Link: Portrait of An Unhealthy City: New York In The 1800s
Web Link: Plagues and Epidemics
Web Link: What is Cholera
Web Link: The Cholera Situation
Web Link: 1892 Cholera Panic Islip Officials & Townspeople try to Stop A Quarantine of Ship Passengers on Fire Island
Web Link: Epidemics:  In case you wondered why ancestors disappeared during a certain period in History
Web Link: Small Pox:  A Great and Terrible Scourge
Web Link: The Discourse of Disease: "Patient Writesa' at the "University of Tuberculosis
Web Link: Human Botulism: A Serious But Relatively Rare Disease
Web Link: Hepatitis B
Web Link: Hepatitis C
Web Link: Colonial Diseases
Web Link: Venereal Disease and its Influence 1911
Web Link: Venereal Diseases by Freeman J. Bumstead, M.D. 1864 United States Sanitary Commission
Sub Section: Prevention
Web Link: Gallons of Prevention
Web Link: Salt: The First Antibiotic
Web Link: Pre-1870 American Surgical Instruments and Amputation Sets
Web Link:
Web Link: Pasteurize or Certify: Two Solutions to "The Milk Problem"
Web Link: History of Dialysis
Web Link: Association For The Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Web Link: History and Chemistry of Disinfectants by Dr. Wm. Dreyfus
Web Link: The Testing of Liquid Disinfectants by Henry Albert, M.D.
Web Link: Quarantine or Isolation in Diphtheria?
Web Link: Vaccines and Disease: An Investigative Report
Web Link: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
Web Link: Phlebotomy: The Ancient Art of Bloodletting
Web Link: Lydia Pinkham's Patent Medicine For Female Complaints 1875
Web Link: Penicillin: The First Miracle Drug
Web Link: Some Curious Colonial Remedies
Web Link: Personal Hygiene 1911
Web Link: Garbage Receptacles
Web Link: The Ventilation of Emigrant Ships 1911
Web Link: Pasteurization of Milk in the Sealed and Final Package by J.C. Carter 1911
Sub Section: Pharmaceutical Achievers
Web Link: Felix Hoffman
Web Link: Alexander Fleming
Web Link: Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Web Link: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown
Web Link: Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin
Web Link: George Hitchings
Web Link: Paul Ehrlich
Sub Section: Relief Of Pain and Suffering: 19th Century and Earlier
Web Link: Pain Alleviation and Anesthesia
Sub Section: Early Medical Instruments and Treatment
Web Link: Urology and The Early Treatment of Stones
Web Link: General Surgery and Amputation
Web Link: Bloodletting and The Four Humors
Web Link: Ophthalmology: From Barbers to Helmholtz
Web Link: Otolaryngology
Web Link: Gastroenterology
Web Link: Civil War Medicine and The Battle of Cold Harbor
Web Link: The History of Lobotomy
Web Link: Antique Medical Instruments Glossary
Sub Section: Quackery
Web Link: American Medical Quackery From The 1700's to Today
Web Link: Quackery: How Should it Be Defined? by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Web Link: Vulnerability to Quackery by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Web Link: Why Quackery Persists by James Harvey Young, PH.D.
Web Link: Ten Ways To Avoid Being Quacked by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Web Link: Fraud In The Mails
Web Link: E-Book: The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth Century America; The Lawless Centuries by James Harvey Young, Phd.
 

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