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| What Is the History of Medicine and Public Health? ESSAYS | |
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| Colonial Beginnings: A New World of Peoples, Disease, and Healing DOCUMENTS | |
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| Le Page du Pratz, a French Observer in Louisiana, Reports on Natchez Nation Healing Practices, 17201728 | |
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| Cotton Mather, a Boston Minister, Proselytizes for Smallpox Inoculation, 1722 | |
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| Boston Physician, Decries the Dangerous "Infatuation" with Smallpox Inoculation, 1722 | |
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| A Broadside Laments the Death of Fifty-Four in a Hartford Epidemic, 1725 | |
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| Zabdiel Boyston of Boston Recounts His Experiences as the First Physician to Inoculate Against Smallpox in the American Colonies, 1726 | |
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| A Virginia Domestic Guide to the Diseases of the American Colonies Makes "Every Man His Own Doctor," 1734 | |
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| Andrew Blackbird of the Ottawa Nation Records a Story from Indian Oral Tradition About the Decimation of His People by Smallpox in the Early 1760s, 1887 ESSAYS | |
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| The Medical Marketplace in the Early Republic, 17851825 DOCUMENTS | |
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| Physicians Narrate His Final Illness and Death, 1799 | |
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| Drinker, a Philadelphia Quaker, Recounts in Her Diary the Physician-Attended Birth of Her Daughter's Sixth Child, 1799 | |
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| Tells His Medical Students at the University of Pennsylvania of the Trials and Rewards of a Medical Career, 1803 | |
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| A Medical Apprentice in Rural South Carolina Records Daily Life in His Diary, 1807 | |
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| Leading Boston Physicians, Solicit Support for Founding the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1810 | |
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| Walter Channing, a Harvard Medical Professor, Warns of the Dangers of Women Practicing Midwifery, 1820 | |
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| A Young Physician Struggles to Get into Practice in Ohio, 1822 | |
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| Botanic Healer, Decries the Regular Medical Profession as a Murderous Monopoly, 1822 ESSAYS Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Medical Challenge to Midwifery Lisa Rosner, The Philadelphia Medical Marketplace | |
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| Medical Knowledge, Practice, and Patients, 18201860 DOCUMENTS | |
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| A New York Medical Student Recounts in His Diary His Emotional Responses to Surgery, 1828 | |
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| Harvard Medical Professor, Challenges the Physician's Power to Cure, 1835 | |
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| A Medical Apprentice Writes from Rochester About a Cadaver "Resurrected" for Dissection, 1841 | |
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| An Eastern-Educated Physician in Indiana Advises Other Emigrants About the Distinctive Character of Diseases of the West, 1845 | |
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| Reformer Dorothea Dix Calls on Tennessee Legislators to Turn State Insane Asylum into a "Curative" Hospital, 1847 | |
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| A Yale Medical Student Decries the Use of Anesthesia in Childbirth, 1848 | |
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| Medical Professor and Racial Theorist, Reports to the Medical Association of Louisiana on the "Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race," 1851 | |
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| A Tennessee Physician Calls for the Cultivation of a Distinctive Southern Medical Literature, 1860 ESSAYS | |
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| The Healer's Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Character, Care, and Competition, 18301875 DOCUMENTS | |
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| A County Medical Society Bemoans the Prevalence of Quackery and Public Opinion Opposed to Legal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1843 | |
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| Women's Health Reformer, Explains Why She Became a Water-Cure Practitioner, 1849 | |
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| A New York State Doctor Rails to His Professional Brethren Against the Education of Women as Physicians, 1850 | |
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| Harvard Medical Professor, Advises What Makes a Good Medical Education, 1850 | |
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| Domestic Practitioners of Hydropathy in the West Testify to Their Faith in Water Cure, 1854 | |
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| Pioneer Women Physicians, Extoll the Woman Physician as the "Connecting Link" Between Women's Health Reform and the Medical Profession, 1859 | |
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| Edward H. Clarke, an Eminent Boston Physician, Asserts That Biology Blocks the Higher Education of Women, 1873 ESSAYS | |
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| The Civil War, Efficiency, and the Sanitary Impulse, 18451870 DOCUMENTS | |
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| Physician and Reformer, Reports to the Municipal Government on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York, 1845 | |
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| World Traveler Harriet Martineau Advises America on Keeping Troops Healthy During Wartime, 1861 | |
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| Kate Cumming, Alabama Nursing Volunteer, Writes in Her Journal About Conditions in the Confederate Army Hospital Service, 1862 | |
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| Medical Editor Stephen Smith Preaches the Gospel of Sanitary Reform During Wartime, 1863 | |
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| Nursing Volunteer Louisa May Alcott Reports to Readers at Home About Her Experiences in the Union Army, 1863 | |
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| A Maine Physician Writes to His Wife About His Experiences in the Union Army, 1864 | |
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| Sanitary Reformers Build upon Civil War Precedents to Clean Up Post-War Cities, 1865 ESSAYS | |
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| Reconfiguring "Scientific Medicine," 18651900 DOCUMENTS | |
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| Henry P. Bowditch, a Recent Harvard Medical Graduate Studying in Europe, Finds in Experimental Laboratory Physiology the Path to a New Scientific Medicine, 1869 | |
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| Clarence Blake, a Young Boston Physician Studying in Europe, Finds in Clinical Specialism the Path to a New Scientific Medicine, 1869 | |
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| Philadelphia Medical Professor, Celebrates Experimental Medicine and the Ongoing Therapeutic Revolution, 1879 | |
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| Councils Physicians on How to Succeed in Business, 1882 | |
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| New York Newspaper Launches Fundraising Campaign for "Miraculous" New Diphtheria Cure, 1894 ESSAYS | |
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| The Gospel of Germs: Microbes, Strangers, and Habits of the Home, 18801925 DOCUMENTS | |
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| A Professor of Hygiene Reports on the Success of Municipal Laws in Battling the American "Spitting Habit," 1900 | |
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| Public Health Leader, Proclaims a New Relationship Among "Dirt, Disease, and the Health Officer," 1902 | |
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| Commissioner-General of Immigration, Warns of the Menace to the Nation's Health of the New Immigrants, 1902 | |
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| African American Physician, Admonishes Antituberculosis Activists to Recognize That Blacks and Whites Must Battle Germs as Their Common Enemy, 1905 | |
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| Advertising Health, the National Association for the Prevention and Study of Tuberculosis Promotes Antituberculosis Billboards, 1910 | |
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| A Georgia Physician Addressing "the Negro Health Problem" Wa | |