History of Diseases

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

• AIDS Posters (UCLA Digital Library Program)
• History of HIV and AIDS: Overview (Avert)
• In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS

Anthrax

• History of Anthrax - Anthrax Through the Ages
• Timeline: Anthrax Through the Ages

Cancer

• The History of Cancer 

Cholera

• Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Text and Images
• John Snow: A Historical Giant in Epidemiology
• Thomas Shapter : The History of the Cholera in Exeter

Diabetes

• Diabetes Timeline (American Diabetes Association)
• Treating Diabetes: 1921 to the Present Day (Diabète Québec)

Diphtheria

• Diphtheria: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy: Historical Overview
• Epilepsy Museum in Kork, Germany

Gaucher Disease

• Roscoe Brady & Gaucher Disease

Heart Disease

• The Blue Baby Operation
• Cut to the Heart
• Framingham Heart Study: Fifty Years of Research Success
• Partners of the Heart: Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (PBS)

Hemophilia

• History of Bleeding Disorders
• History of Hemophilia (Canada)

Infectious Diseases

• Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
• The History of Vaccination
• The History of Vaccines
• The History of Vaccines (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Influenza

• 1918 Influenza Digital Archive
• Influenza, 1918 - The American Experience (PBS)

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)

• Global Project on the History of Leprosy
• Leprosy Trials and Treatment: A Brief History
• National Hansen's Disease Museum

Lupus Erythematosus

• What is the History Of Lupus Erythematosus?

Malaria

• From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age (CDC)
• The History of Malaria, an Ancient Disease (CDC)

Measles

• Measles: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia) 

Mental Illness

• History of Madness in Canada
• The Lobotomist - The American Experience (PBS)
• Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness - A Brilliant Madness (PBS)

Pellagra

• Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra (Office of NIH History)
• Pellagra in Alabama: A Valiant Struggle Against "The Red Death" (Reynolds Library, UAB)

Plague

• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722)
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

The Black Death

• The Black Death (BBC Online)
• The Black Death and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. Hecker (1832)
• Black Death & the Jews 1348-1349 (Fordham University)

Polio

• About Jonas Salk 
• The Legacy of Albert B. Sabin, M.D
• History of Polio
• Polio: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
• Sr. Elizabeth Kenny
• What Ever Happened to Polio? (Smithsonian Institute)

Smallpox

• The Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication
• Smallpox: Eradicating the Scourge
• Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death (from Annals of Internal Medicine)

Syphilis

• The Scientific Career of Paul Ehrlich

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis History in Canada (Canadian Lung Association)
• The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France by David Barnes (1995)
• Tuberculosis (TB) History
• Famous People Diagnosed With Tuberculosis

Typhoid

• The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary - Nova (PBS)
• Typhoid Mary - Teaching American History in Maryland
• Walter Reed and Typhoid Fever, 1897-1911: Illuminating a Different Civil War

Yellow Fever

• Carlos Juan Finlay (University of Virginia)
• The Great Fever (American Experience) (PBS)
• History - Walter Reed
• Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection (University of Virginia)
• Yellow Fever: Timeline (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Updated 8/31/2020