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• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History (Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), ed. by E. Thomas Ewing and Katherine Randall (multiple formats with commentary at VT Publishing)
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler (Gutenberg text)
• A History of Women in Medicine, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (only volume published of a projected larger work; Haddam, CT: Haddam Press, 1938), by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead (page images at HathiTrust)

• History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy G. Siraisi (page images at HathiTrust)

• History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy G. Siraisi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States, 1668-1820 (Washington: National Library of Medicine, 1961), by Robert B. Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States, 1668-1820 (Washington: National Library of Medicine, 1961), by Robert B. Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Social Work in Hospitals: A Contribution to Progressive Medicine (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c1913), by Ida M. Cannon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eclectic Alkaloids, Resins, Resinoids, Oleo-Resins and Concentrated Principles (1910), by John Uri Lloyd (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled (Sydney: UTS ePress, c2019), by Michael D. Robertson, Astrid Ley, and Edwina Light (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled (Sydney: UTS ePress, c2019), by Michael D. Robertson, Astrid Ley, and Edwina Light (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2005), by Michael Bryant (PDF at upcolorado.com)

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy D. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Arlene Wynbeek Keeling (PDF at Ohio State)

• Answering the Call: The United States Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919 (Washington: Office of the Surgeon General, 2008), ed. by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior (page images at HathiTrust)

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Medical History (partial serial archives)
• Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin (full serial archives)
• Medical History (partial serial archives)
• The Proceedings of the Charaka Club (partial serial archives)

• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c2017), by Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens (PDF at OAPEN)

• Makers of Modern Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1907), by James J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Elephant Man, and Other Reminiscences (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1923), by Frederick Treves (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hell in an Uproar: A Satyr, Occasioned By a Scuffle Which Lately Happened Between the Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority (London: Printed for T. Watkins, 1750), by Richard Burridge (page images at NIH)
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)

• The Medics' War (Washington: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1987), by Albert E. Cowdrey (page images at HathiTrust)

• White Caps: The Story of Nursing (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1946), by Victor Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Nursing (4 volumes, 2 from original edition, 2 from later continuation; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1907-1912), by M. Adelaide Nutting and Lavinia L. Dock
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• Labor Among Primitive Peoples, by George J. Engelmann (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Autobiography of Andrew T. Still, With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy (Kirksville, MO: The author, 1897), by A. T. Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Early American Manual Therapy
• History of Osteopathy, and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice (1906), by Emmons Rutledge Booth (HTML at Early American Manual Therapy)

• Pediatrics of the Past: An Anthology (New York: P. B. Hoeber, 1925), ed. by John Ruhräh, contrib. by Fielding H. Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pharmacy's Part in Society (Madison, WI: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1946), by George Urdang (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fifty Years in Pharmacy (from Indiana Historical Society Publications, v3 #5; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1903), by George White Sloan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pictorial Life History of the Apothecary Chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (Madison, WI: American Institute of the history of pharmacy, 1942), by George Urdang (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980 (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1985), by John A. S. Pitts (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• A History of Women in Medicine, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (only volume published of a projected larger work; Haddam, CT: Haddam Press, 1938), by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des Femmes Médecins Depuis l'Antiquité Jusqu'à Nos Jours (in French; Paris: G. Jacques et cie., 1900), by Mélina Lipinska
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Ranks of Death: A Medical History of the Conquest of America (New York: Coward-McCann, c1947), by P. M. Ashburn and Frank Davis Ashburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico (c2008), by Sherry Lee Fields (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1991), by Patricia A. Watson (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1991), by Patricia A. Watson (PDF at Tennessee)

• Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Jack H. Botting, ed. by Regina M. Botting (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

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