Digital Collections
Printer-friendly VersionNLM historical collections include selected digitized material relating to the history of medicine. Chosen from the manuscripts and books collections, the prints and photographs collection, historical films and videos, current and past exhibitions, and the Digital Manuscripts Program, these digitized materials cover a spectrum of centuries and cultures from medieval Islam to contemporary biomedical research.
- Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images
- Time, Tide, and Tonics: The Patent Medicine Almanac in America
- Medicine in the Americas (full text digital medical Americana)
- IndexCat Homepage (background information) To search click here.
- Profiles in Science (Innovators in science, medicine, and public health)
- Images from the History of Medicine, IHM (Image database)
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (11th-19th century)
- Bookshelf: Historical Works: Medicine in the Americas
- Turning the Pages (View rare books up close)
- Historical Anatomies on the Web (Anatomical illustrations)
- Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects (NLM exhibitions and digital projects on the Web)
- History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive
- A History of the National Library of Medicine, by Wyndham D. Miles