OTHER ONLINE SITES DEALING WITH MEDICAL ANTIQUES


This page will give other sites dealing with medical antique instruments.

 

Several organiziations deal with the history of medicine, and there are many places to visit on the internet. However, there are just a few sites that are devoted to medical instruments. Click on the blue link to take you to the site.

The Museum of Historical Medical Artifacts is a terrific new site that displays over a thousand photos of medical instruments representing a wide range of medical practice and craftmanship, with a wonderful collection of stethoscopes. 
 http://www.mohma.org

 The Wellcome Museum Image Library is a particularly nice site because it has images of a wide array of medical antiques and especially an extensive collection of stethoscopes.
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk


The National Library of Medicine is another excellent source of information about medical antiques, including many historical photographs.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov


A comprehensive collection of medical antiques and stethoscopes is represented in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
http://www.afip.org


The Dittrick Medical History Center is an inbvaluable resource for studying the history of medicine. Their museum has a large collection of medical antique instruments.
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2


The
New York Academy of Medicine
is well recognized as a reference library on the history of medicine, including an extensive rare medical book collection.

http://nyam.org


The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philidelphia has an extensive collection of antique medical instruments.
http://www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml


The Karolinska Institutet has an extensive section on the history of medicine with links to a comprehensive selection of related historical, museum, library and special collection sites.
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html


A catalogue and description of sites on the history of science, technology and industry is maintained by the Echo Research Center, which is a project of George Mason University. The Center has an extensive database organized by time period, topic or content that includes the history of medicine.
http://echo.gmu.edu/center.php


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