Health and
Medicine
- Bettmann, Otto L. The Good Old Days; They Were Terrible. New York:
Random, 1974.
Read section called "Health."
- Emergence of
Advertising in America: 1850-1920
[http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html]
See medical products
- Here Today, Here
Tomorrow
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/ephemera/intro.html]
An online collection from the National Library of Medicine of nearly 400 medical and
pharmaceutical items, including posters, informational pamphlets, trade cards, handbills,
postcards, broadsides, and other types of printed ephemera, dating from the 18th century
to the present.
- "'If
you knew the conditions..' Health Care to Native Americans
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_01.html]
National Library of Medicine documents the administration of health care to Native
American recipients by the United States Government.
- Images From the
History of the Public Health Service.
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html]
The government took an active interest in public health with the passage of the
Federal Food and Drugs Act (1906) and the formation of the Public Health Service (1912).
- Israel, Fred L. ed. 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalogue. Broomall, PA: Chelsea
House, 1968.
Common home remedies such as kerosene for headlice and smelling salts can be found in the
"Drug" section.
- "The Influenza Pandemic."Centenarians ed. Bernard Edelman. New York:
Farrar, 1999.
- Miller, Brandon Marie. Just What the Doctor Ordered; The History of
American Medicine. North Minneapolis, MN: Lerner, 1997.
- Monk, Linda. R., ed. Ordinary Americans; U.S. History Throught the Eyes of Everyday
People. Alexandria, VA: Close-Up Publishing, 1994.
"The War Against the Mosquito" in the building of the Panama Canal by Journalist
Arthur Bullard.
Funerals and Death
Religion
- "Sundays and Celebrations." Centenarians ed. Bernard Edelman. New York: Farrar, 1999.
© Debbie
Abilock August 22, 1999-2004