Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
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The Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1927 collection consists of works that demonstrate the evolution of American medicine from seventeenth-century colonial frontier outposts to twentieth-century research hospitals. This collection encompasses works dating as early as 1610 and printed in the United States and around the New World, including Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.
Materials have been scanned from a broad range of areas, including (but not limited to):
- • Popular & Clinical Works
- • Epidemiology & Public Health
- • Allopathic & Alternative Approaches
- • The Diversity of Specializations
- • Ethnic & Racial Diversity
- • Women’s Health & Women Physicians
- • Milestones in Medical Publishing
- • Allied Healthcare Professions
- • Influenza Pandemic
- • Laboratory and Hospital Medicine
Additional public domain titles will be available on an ongoing basis in the future.
Medicine in the Americas was made possible in part through the participation of the National Library of Medicine in the Medical Heritage Library, a digital curation collaborative supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and administered by the Open Knowledge Commons.