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Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical care came about, beginning with the Order of St. John.

http://www.sja-haltonhills.org/

The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.

http://www.geocities.com/

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.

http://www.geocities.com/

An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century.

http://www.americanrevolution.org/

A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900.

http://www.germtheorycalendar.com/

Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798.

http://www.geocities.com/

Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.

http://www.publichealthmuseum.org/

Historical highlights.

http://www.hhs.gov/

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