Stories
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How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- Article
We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: the Hospital of the Medical Department of the United States Army: a ward of empty beds. Photograph, 1876.
Date: 1876Reference: 572988i- Books
United States Army Dental Service in World War II / [George F. Jeffcott].
Jeffcott, George F.Date: 1955- Books
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Report on epidemic cholera in the Army of the United States, during the year 1866 / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1867- Books
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Standard supply table of the Medical Department : United States army, 1892.
United States. Surgeon-General's Office.Date: [1892]- Books
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List of periodicals present in and wanted for the Library of the Medical Department, United States Army, Washington, January 10, 1874.
Date: [1874]