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• Lancaster Moor Hospital images - Lancaster Moor Hospital, UK, 14 May, 2005
• County Asylums - Lancaster Moor - County Asylums
• Images from Medical history - Welcome to Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. The purpose of the database is to assist users in finding illustrative material for private study, scholarship, and research. The NLM does not own the copyright to the images in the database, nor do we charge access or permission fees for their use. We do request, however, that published images include the credit line "Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine."
• www.workhouses.org.uk - The Workhouse Web Site - www.workhouses.org.uk - The Workhouse Web Site
• Women in Medicine - Health and Medicine

Alphabetical

• ' Local Health, Local History ' - Our Guide - Lancashire Libraries guide to exploring the Health history of Lancashire. Details of events, soundclips images and resources for schools.
• 'Archive of images' - Lancashire Library - Welcome to the Lancashire Image Archive – you can access our collections of local photographs, postcards and other images held in libraries across the county. Here you will find, at the click of a mouse, life in Lancashire in all its many aspects – people, buildings, streets, transport, architecture, customs, traditions, celebrations and much more!
• 'Asylum' - Whittingham Hospital Site - "Asylum" Whittingham Hospital
• 19th Century Medicine - 19th Century Medicine
• A Midwife's Tale - DoHistory - A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived.
• Abandoned Britian - Abandoned Britan
• BBC - Health - This comprehensive and accessible site includes an extensive directory of ailments, information on healthy living and links to useful external sites
• BBC - History
• BBC - Radio 4 Making History - Homepage - BBC - Radio 4 Making History - Homepage
• BMJ BestTreatments :: Home - This site from the BMJ provides comprehensive advice on a range of medical conditions and outlines treatment options. There are separate areas for patients and doctors.
• British History Online - British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
• Centre for History in Public Health - The Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is an interdepartmental initiative which capitalises on the value of history and historians in a unique public health historical setting.
• Collect Britain - This website showcases thousands of items from the British Library. You can browse our collections, tours and exhibitions, or search the site in many different ways. Register or log-in to enjoy more features.
• Community Health Profiles - Local Authority Health Profiles are designed to show the health of people in local authorities across England. They include national and regional comparisons. They are part of the government's white paper
• County Asylums - Rediscovering the Asylums and Mental Hospitals of England and Wales. Welcome to County Asylums, a site dedicated to revealing the remains of England and Wales' local authority funded mental hospitals.
• County Asylums - Lancaster Moor - County Asylums
• County Asylums - Whittingham - County Asylums
• Derelict Places - Derelict Places
• Dittrick Medical History Center - Case Western Reserve University - 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.
• Duke University Historical Images in Medicine - The Medical Center Library's Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
• ECHO Portal - 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.
• Egyptology Online - Medecine - Treatments and surgery in Ancient Egypt
• Florence Nightingale Letters - Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters
• GuideStar UK | Database of UK charities - Guidestar currently provides information on all the registered charities in England and Wales and hopes to expand to include Scotland and Northern Ireland. The base information about each charity is provided from the records of the Charity Commission . This is subsequently maintained and updated by the charities themselves.
• Headline History - Key Stage 2 educational interactive history for children - Headline History - Key Stage 2 educational interactive history for children. Explore historical newspapers packed with true stories Find out about grim and gruesome facts Interview famous characters from history Write your own front page stories Discover hidden surprises including sound and film.
• Health Service Development and History - - A Website by Goeffret Rivett, author of "From Cradle to Grave - the first 50 years of the NHS", includes up-to-date information on events since 1998 when the book stops
• HealthSpace - Home - HealthSpace is a secure online personal health organiser from the NHS. Anyone over the age of 16 and living in England can open a HealthSpace account. As the NHS Care Records Service is rolled out across England over the next few years, people in other areas will also be able use HealthSpace to view their Summary Care Record
• History in Focus: Medical History (Introduction) - The third issue of History in Focus brings together resources for the History of Medicine, from antiquity to the twentieth century.
• History of Diseases - History of Diseases
• History of Medicine On Line - History of Medicine On Line
• History of the Health - Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories - History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
• History of the Health Sciences Web Resources - History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
• History World Timelines - Medicine through time.
• Hospital Records Database - This National Archives database provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals. There are currently over 2,800 entries, which have been compiled by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
• Human Anatomy Online - Fact-filled tour of the human body for students in middle school and above
• Images from Medical history - Welcome to Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. The purpose of the database is to assist users in finding illustrative material for private study, scholarship, and research. The NLM does not own the copyright to the images in the database, nor do we charge access or permission fees for their use. We do request, however, that published images include the credit line "Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine."
• Important Figures in Health Sciences - Their Lives & Works - History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
• Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals - Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
• Institutions Website - From Almshouse and Asylums to Prisons and Workhouses
• Internet Health Library - The Internet Health Library describes itself as "The UK's largest Alternative Medicine, Complementary Therapy and Natural Health Care Resource". It provides information on a range of therapies, treatments and health problems. There is also information on associations, training establishments and self-help organisations and a database to help you find a practitioner in your area.
• Karolinska Institutet - 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.
• Kids First for Health - Fun and Games about health and medicine from Great Ormond Street Hospital.
• Lancaster Moor Hospital images - Lancaster Moor Hospital, UK, 14 May, 2005
• Liverpool Medical Institution - Liverpool Medical Institution is one of the oldest medical societies in the world.
• Local History and Community Site - from The Historical Association
• Londons Museums of Health & Medicine - Londons Museums of Health & Medicine
• MEDICAL ANTIQUES ONLINE - MEDICAL ANTIQUES ONLINE
• Medicine and healthcare in Ancient Egypt
• Mental Health History Timeline - Mental Health History Timeline
• Moor Hospital - Images - Moor Hospital Site
• Mütter Museum - College of Physicians - Mutter Museum. The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philidelphia has an extensive collection of antique medical instruments.
• National Health Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - National Health Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• National Museum of Health and Medicine - A comprehensive collection of medical antiques in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
• NetDoctor.co.uk - The UK's leading independent health website - The Internet Health Library describes itself as "The UK's largest Alternative Medicine, Complementary Therapy and Natural Health Care Resource". It provides information on a range of therapies, treatments and health problems. There is also information on associations, training establishments and self-help organisations and a database to help you find a practitioner in your area.
• NHS Direct - Health & Medical Information - The web site of the NHS Direct service. It includes a Health Encyclopaedia and a Local Information Database which can help you find doctors, dentists, opticians & pharmacists.
• NMHUK: Mental Health History Timeline - NMHUK: Mental Health History Timeline
• nobodythere.co.uk - abandoned buildings - nobodythere.co.uk
• North Lancashire Primary Care Trust - North Lancashire Primary Care Trust
• Old Archaic Medical terms and Clinical names. - Old Archaic Medical terms and Clinical names for diseases, useful for historians and genealogists.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Outside Libraries you will need to login using your library membership number. Using the DNBs advanced search you kind find People, Dates, Events and Places related to Health History and your area.
• Oxford DNB - Use this link to access the DNB within any Lancashire County Library. Using the DNBs advanced search you kind find People, Dates, Events and Places related to Health History and your area.
• Pharmaceutical Century Home Page - We live today in a world of drugs. By no means was it always so. Pharmaceutical Century is a history of our medicines.
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - A Scandalously Short Introduction to the History of Pharmacy.
• Pharmacist's Measures - Accurate dispensing requires the use of accurate balances, weights and Measures.
• Physical Diagnosis - A Brief History
• Pills and Pill-making - Information sheet from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Public Health Observatory - The North West Public Health Observatory is one of nine regional public health intelligence organisations forming a national network. This site is a good source of statistics relating to health issues in the north west.
• Reading, The Healthy Option : Programme - Papers from a one day conference for anyone interested in the links between reading activites and health. Presentation will include Get into Reading, RAYs (Reading and You), Books on Prescription, reading groups and other bibliotherapy projects and activities.
• Rossall Beach - The Past of the Fylde Coast - A POST CARD COLLECTION AND A LOOK AT THE PAST YEARS OF THE FYLDE COAST
• Royal Albert Asylum - Royal Albert Asylum
• Story of the Plague - from Channel Four
• The history of GOSH - About Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) - GOSH and ICH - The history of GOSH - About Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) - GOSH and ICH
• The Learning City - The Barber-Surgeon - The Learning City - The Barber-Surgeon - Tudor Medicine, part of the Mary Rose project.
• The Wellcome Library - Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day. Includes Wellcome Images - Unique, searchable collection covering the history of medicine and human culture.
• Unlocking the Past - An archive, a collection, of stories and photographs of former residents and staff of the Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster - a large Victorian long stay institution for people with learning difficulties which closed its doors in 1996. Articles along with resource information relating to the Royal Albert itself, the social history of learning disability and oral history.
• urban decay - amelie riis photography - amelie riis photography
• urbex:uk - - A site for those interested in derelict buildings, features many hospitals and asylums.
• US National Library of Medicine
• Victorian Psychiatry - Victorian Psychiatry
• Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy - Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model Detailed models of all body systems Dynamic search capability Easy-to-use, 3D controls
• Welcome to the Choose and Book website - Choose and Book, part of the Patient Choice programme, is a national service that allows patients to choose hospital or clinics and book appointments. For NHS staff it combines electronic booking and a choice of place, date and time for first outpatient appointments. In Library assistance for using this site is widely advertised.
• Welcome to Welltown - Government website providing health information for key stage 1 pupils (5 to 7 year olds) in interactive stories and activities based on the National Curriculum and National Healthy School Standard. Includes healthy eating, physical activity, accidents and safety, mental health, sun safety, personal hygiene, sex and relationship education, drugs alcohol and smoking.
• Whittingham Hospital - aerial photo - Whittingham Hospital
• Whittingham Hospital History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us - Whittingham Hospital History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us
• WHO | World Health Organization - WHO | World Health Organization
• Women in Medicine - Health and Medicine
• www.workhouses.org.uk - The Workhouse Web Site - www.workhouses.org.uk - The Workhouse Web Site