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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine - Full, indexed text of this encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery. By George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.

Disability Social History Project - Timeline, essays, upcoming conferences, and other resources related to the history of disability in society. The ways in which people with disabilities have been treated vary dramatically throughout history and among different cultures.

Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine - Information on Albert B. Sabin, MD, developer of the polio vaccine from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Meta Description: [ Albert B. Sabin, MD, developer of the polio vaccine, came to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1939. ]

Photographs for Mental Health Care Reform: The Maryland State Care Campaign, 1908-1910 - This online exhibition traces the Maryland State Lunacy Commission's successful campaign to transfer the mentally ill from county almshouses into state hospitals. Photographs played a key role in the passage of new laws.
Meta Description: [ A web exhibition focusing upon photography as the tool to reform the conditions for the mentally ill held within Maryland's county almshouses and institutions during the early twentieth century. ]

Society for the Social History of Medicine - Pursues inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice. Organization information, upcoming conferences, journal table of contents, and internet links.

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