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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