Scalpels, Speculums and Syringes

The followine primary sources from the 15th century to the 20th century cover everything from repair of anal fistulas to vagus nerve surgeryas well as the battle between online access and print journals books to the dangers of sexual excess. "History of Medicine Web Sites and Online Books." The source is unknown. Originally prepared in 2007, the links were checked prior to posting.



Web sites


UCLA Biomedical Library History & Special Collections: Online Exhibits & Project

Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914: A Digital Library

Intute: Health and Life Sciences - MedHist

Images from the History of Medicine (US Library of Medicine)
Virtua Gateway



Bibliography of American History of Medicine and Related Fields

Osteopathy - Early texts and manuals.
Early American Manual Therapy


Medical books online (For historical purposes only):

Published in 1887.
Excessive venery, masturbation, and continence ... - Google Book Search

Published in 1847.
The silent friend: a medical work, on the ... - Google Book Search

Published in 1892.
Rectal and anal surgery: With Description of ... - Google Book Search

Published in 1905.
The Urine and feces in diagnosis - Google Book Search

Published in 1868.
Practical Observations of the ætiology ... - Google Book Search

Published in 1855.
The Homeopathic Guide in All Disease of the Urinary and Sexual
Organs, Including the Derangements Caused by........

Published in 1910. Originally written in the 15th century.
Internet Archive: Details: Treatises of fistula in ano, haemorrhoids and
clysters

Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, and a History of the
Thomsonian Materia Medica, As Shown in "The New Guide to Health
(1835), and the Literature of That Day (1909).


The Medical Messiahs: Contents

The Medical Profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850: An
Historical Narrative....

Robert Jay Lifton's 1986 book.
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide