History of Medicine Digital Exhibits

History of Medicine Digital Exhibits

• Alchemy & Chemistry
  • Alchemy and Chemistry at the Worth Library: an exhibition of items from the collections of 18^th-century Dublin physician Edward Worth

  See also: Magic & Superstition

• Anatomy
  • Anatomia Animata: Anatomy and Medicine in William Harvey’s Century: an exhibit displaying medical books from the 17^th century, the time of William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood; also includes material on other contemporaneous developments, including the rise of microscopic anatomy, injection techniques, and anatomical experiments that transformed the understanding of the body 
  • Andrew Snape’s Anatomy of a Horse: interactive exhibit on the 17^th-century illustrated book
  • Bigelow-Wallis and Warren-Kaula Teaching Watercolors: Harvard exhibit on anatomy watercolors, including healthy and diseased anatomy, bones, lower abdomen and groin
  • Dream Anatomy: an exhibit on early anatomical imagination from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit includes ex-voto anatomy, the Italian and Mexican traditions, early medical guides, and a gallery of ex-votos (devotional paintings)
  • Fritz Kahn’s Body Machines: introduction and collection of images exploring the inner machinery of the human body from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Historical Anatomies on the Web: selected images of historical anatomical atlases from the U.S. National Library of Medicine collection
  • Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: interactive exhibit on Hooke’s illustrated book on the microscopic world
  • The Resurrectionists: a collection of broadcasts, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the early 19^th-century Scottish body-snatchers and murderers, William Burke and William Hare
  • Vesalius’s Renaissance Anatomy Lessons: introduction and collection of images of Vesalius’s Fabrica from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit

  See also: Renaissance: Anatomy; Anatomical Curiosities

• Anatomical Curiosities, Freak Shows
  • Ruysch’s Anatomical Curiosities: introduction and collection of images of the Dutch anatomist’s engravings from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Victorian Freak Shows: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
• Anesthesia
  • History of Anesthesia: an interactive timeline of the history of anesthesia and the profession of anesthesiology
  • John Snow @ UCLA: an online exhibit of John Snow’s work by the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA
  • The John Snow Archive and Research Companion: exhibit on John Snow and his contemporaries’ contributions to anesthesia, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health
  • The Wood Library Museum: an exhibit of a variety of objects and instruments from the museum’s collections, including those related to airway management, alternative medicine, local anesthesia, machines and apparatuses, masks and inhalers, military anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, patient controlled analgesia, pediatric anesthesia, pharmaceutical, regional anesthesia, respiratory therapy, resuscitation, safety and monitoring, as well as artwork, awards, and memorabilia
• Ancient & Classical Medicine (Greece, Rome, Egypt)
  • The Empire’s Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome: online exhibits related to ancient medicine around Galen, including ancient medical education, women, birth and midwifery, sanitation engineering, surgery and surgical instruments, and more
  • Religion, Magic, and Medicine at Ptolemic and Roman Tebtunis: an exhibit by the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
  • The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus: interactive exhibit on one of the world’s oldest surviving medical texts, created in Egypt around 1600 B.C.
  • Vitruvius’s Theories of Beauty: introduction and collection of images by the ancient Roman architect from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
• Astronomy & Astrology
  • Al-Qazwini’s Wonders of Creation: interactive exhibit on one of “The Cosmography,” one of the most important natural history texts of the medieval Islamic world
  • Astronomy at the Edward Worth Library: an exhibition of astronomical works from the collection of 18^th-century Dublin physician Edward Worth
  • Medieval Astrology: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Mongolian Book of Astrology: interactive exhibit on Buddhist cosmology from a 19^th-century manuscript
  • Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries: an exhibit on the Western European view of the natural world before the Scientific Revolution
• Botanicals
  • Basil Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, Eichstatt, 1640: online exhibition of one of the Western world’s most significant botanical picture books
  • Botany at the Worth Library: an exhibit on the botanical collections of the 18^th-century Dublin physician Edward Worth
  • Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal: Interactive exhibit on the 18^th-century Scottish botanist’s illustrations of medicinal plants
  • The Healing Power of Plants: virtual exhibit on the history of medicinal plant use from around the world
• Canada: Cookbooks
  • Bon Appétit! A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks: an exhibition covering the themes of Canada’s first cooks, the pioneer kitchen, revolutions in the kitchen, and the culture of cooking
• Canada: Notable Physicians
  • Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: includes biographies of laureates
  • Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler, 1849–1919: collection of photographs, full-text reproductions of works and letters, and other content on one of the fathers of modern medicine by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 
  • Famous Canadian Physicians: includes a brief history and biographies of notable Canadian physicians, including Sir Frederick Banting, Dr. Norman Bethune, Sir William Osler, and others
  • Video History of Medicine in Canada: videos of interviews with important Canadian doctors, including Fraser Mustard, John Evans, and others
• Canada: Nursing
  • The Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters: exhibit on the contribution of Canadian nursing sisters in the First World War
  • That I May be of Service: The Alumnae Association of the School of Nurses: an exhibition on the history of the Toronto General Hospital School of Nurses
• Canada: Public Health
  • An Infectious Idea: 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto: includes archival photographs and documents from 1883–present
  • In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832–1937: an exhibit on the island quarantine station which was used to prevent the spread of disease from immigrants arriving in Quebec City, which was the main point of entry into Canada
  • Medical Records at the Archives of Ontario: an exhibit by the Archives of Ontario that includes psychiatric and tuberculosis hospital records
  • The Leprosy of Tracadie: virtual museum from the Historical Museum of Tracadie, New Brunswick
  • The Promotion of Healthy Living in Ontario: an exhibit from the Archives of Ontario that provides an overview of public health campaigns in Ontario from 1882–present
  • This is Public Health: history e-book and virtual exhibition on public health in Canada
  • Vaccines and Immunization: Epidemics, Prevention, and Canadian Innovation: virtual exhibit covering smallpox, diphtheria, polio, pertussis, rabies, tetanus, tuberculosis, influenza, measles, and more
• Canada: Health Care, Hospital Care & Family Medicine
  • Getting Better: a virtual exhibit on hospital care in Canada
  • Family Medicine: A Canadian Heritage: an exhibit by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, featuring a timeline, an oral history collection, and a digital exhibit on the history of the College’s provincial chapters
  • Making Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 1914–2007: includes history, key players, geography, costs and benefits, and an educational lab for teachers and students
• Canada: Residential Schools
  • Indian Residential Schools: Archives from the Presbyterian Church in Canada
  • The Children Remembered: The Residential School Archive Project: a project on residential schools run by the United Church of Canada
  • We Were So Far Away: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools: a Legacy of Hope project including a slideshow, timeline, and portraits of survivors
  • Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools: an exhibition including a timeline, stories, and resources
• Canada: Local History
  • The Great Toronto Fire, April 19, 1904: includes images and an animated map of the fire that leveled nearly 20 acres of land
• Disease, Infectious & Epidemic: General
  • Arnold Carl Klebs, 1870–1943: online exhibit on the tuberculosis specialist
  • Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images: an overview and collection of images
  • Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics: an online collection from Harvard that covers cholera, plague, smallpox, Spanish influenza, syphilis, tropical diseases, tuberculosis, and yellow fever
  • Fighting for Breath: Stopping the TB Epidemic: exhibit on the global fight against tuberculosis
  • Infectious Diseases at the Worth Library: an exhibition of early modern medical texts from the collection of 18^th-century Dublin physician Edward Worth
  • In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832–1937: an exhibit on the island quarantine station which was used to prevent the spread of disease from immigrants arriving in Quebec City, which was the main point of entry into Canada
  • John Snow @ UCLA: an online exhibit of John Snow’s work by the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA
  • The John Snow Archive and Research Companion: exhibit on John Snow and his contemporaries’ contributions to anesthesia, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health
  • The Leprosy of Tracadie: virtual museum from the Historical Museum of Tracadie, New Brunswick
  • To Slay the Devouring Monster: Harvard’s online exhibit on smallpox
  • Whatever Happened to Polio?: and exhibit from the Smithsonian on the eradication of polio in the United States

  See also: Global Health; Public Health

• Disease, Infectious & Epidemic: AIDS
  • HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago: series of 8 collections from the Smithsonian on the political, social, and public health aspects of the AIDS epidemic
  • In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: includes excerpts and transcripts of full interviews from NIH researchers on how to investigate the cause of a new disease and how to find ways to treat and prevent it
  • Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture: an exhibit on the fight against aids from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

  See also: Global Health; Public Health

• Disease, Infectious & Epidemic: Vaccines
  • Dr. Jenner’s House: online collection from “the birthplace of vaccination”
  • The History of Vaccines: an educational resource by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia that includes timelines, activities, articles, and a gallery
  • Vaccines and Immunization: Epidemics, Prevention, and Canadian Innovation: virtual exhibit covering smallpox, diphtheria, polio, pertussis, rabies, tetanus, tuberculosis, influenza, measles, and more

  See also: Disease, Infectious & Epidemic: General; Global Health; Public Health

• Disease, Non-Infectious
  • Breath of Life: an exhibition examining the history of asthma from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Dr. Joseph Goldberger & The War on Pellagra: an exhibit on the once-common and deadly disease caused by a mineral deficiency
• Eugenics
  • Eugenics Archive.ca: a series of 12 interactive tools to explore the history of eugenics around the world
  • Eugenics Archive.org: an image archive on the American eugenics movement
  • Galton’s Children: Harvard exhibit on the rise and fall of the eugenics movement
• Food
  • Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Spices: interactive exhibit on the world of spices, including content by spice, country, language, and subject; also includes digitized versions of important works and a timeline
  • Bon Appétit! A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks: an exhibition covering the themes of Canada’s first cooks, the pioneer kitchen, revolutions in the kitchen, and the culture of cooking
• Genetics
  • Human Genetics and Medical Research: includes material  on the basics of genetics, genetic diseases, gene therapy, the human genome project, and ethics and genetics
  • Human Genetics Historical Library: an exhibit introducing the origins of genetics
  • Marshall Nirenberg: Deciphering the Genetic Code: includes instruments, biographies, glossary, and links
  • The Marshall Nirenberg Charts: documents pertaining to the Nobel Laureate’s groundbreaking experiments on the chemistry of DNA
• Global Health
  • Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health: an exhibit on various aspects of global health, including food access, legacies of war, and disease prevention, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Fighting for Breath: Stopping the TB Epidemic: exhibit on the global fight against tuberculosis
  • Picturing Health: 35 Years of Photojournalism at WHO: collection of photographs from the WHO archives, searchable by subject and photographer
  • Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture: an exhibit on the fight against aids from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Healing & Faith
  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit includes ex-voto anatomy, the Italian and Mexican traditions, early medical guides, and a gallery of ex-votos (devotional paintings)
  • Sages, Scholars, and Healers: Judaica from the Solomon M. Hyams Collection: an exhibit by Harvard that covers 13^th-20^th century medical texts, astronomy, religious commentary, and Jewish life

  See also: Magic & Superstition

• History of Modern Medicine: General
  • Mapping History Project: collection of animated maps covering social, cultural, and industrial development in American, European, Latin American and African history
  • The History of Modern Medicine: pictographic timeline of modern medicine traced through clinicians put together by the NHS
  • The James Lind Library: an online exhibit illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care
• Homeopathy
  • Grand Delusion?: Harvard exhibit tracing the development of homeopathy in Boston and Massachusetts 
• Institutions
  • American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation:  a number of online exhibits on the foundation’s origins, operations, and membership
  • British Red Cross: a number of online exhibitions on the history of the organization, including photographic histories of its service in the two world wars, postwar health and social care, emergency responses, and more
  • Harvard Medical School Center for the History of Medicine: exhibits on the school’s foundations, the Boston Medical Library, the Harvard dental school, and notable faculty and alumni
  • Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Historical Library, Yale University: collection of online exhibitions on notable Yale medical alumni, the history of the medical library, and nursing, medicine, and public health at Yale
  • The Gallery of the Rare: a showcase of images from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • The Royal College of Physicians Engravings: collection of over 600 19^th-century engraved portraits of medical practitioners
  • The Virtual Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: historical collection of lectures and interviews by department faculty and students from Johns Hopkins; topics include royal births, anti-malarial drug resistance, public health, and more
• Magic & Witchcraft & Renaissance Science
  • Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit covers the topics of potions, monsters, herbology, magical creatures, fantastic beasts, and immortality
  • Magical Stones and Imperial Bones: Harvard exhibit on aspects of medicine’s history and impact on public health
  • Religion, Magic, and Medicine at Ptolemic and Roman Tebtunis: an exhibit by the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
  • Shakespeare, Magic, and Witchcraft: includes themes of ghosts, magic, folklore and superstition

  See also: Alchemy & Chemistry; Healing & Faith; Renaissance: Astrology, Early Medicine, & Magic

• Medical Ethics
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit explores the medical ethics of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel
  • Human Genetics and Medical Research: includes material  on the basics of genetics, genetic diseases, gene therapy, the human genome project, and ethics and genetics
• Medical Illustrations
  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit includes ex-voto anatomy, the Italian and Mexican traditions, early Spanish medical guides, and a gallery of ex-votos (devotional paintings)
  • Medical Posters: a collection of the National Institute of Health collection of posters, including diseases, drugs, reproductive and women’s health, and much more
  • The Fifteeners: exhibit of Harvard University’s collection of incunabula
  • The Language of the Age: Depiction of Medicine in Graphic Satire: exhibit by Harvard on 17^th and 18^th-century depictions of medicine
  • The Ultimate Portrait Painter: Howard Bartner & Forty Years of Medical Illustration: an exhibit on Bartner and his illustrations of ophthalmological disorders, anatomy of the infant head, and human physiology in space
• Medical Instruments
  • Early Medical Instruments at the National Institutes of Health: exhibit featuring a cross-section of instruments for computing
  • The Wood Library Museum: an exhibit of a variety of objects and instruments from the museum’s collections, including those related to airway management, alternative medicine, local anesthesia, machines and apparatuses, masks and inhalers, military anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, patient controlled analgesia, pediatric anesthesia, pharmaceutical, regional anesthesia, respiratory therapy, resuscitation, safety and monitoring, as well as artwork, awards, and memorabilia
• Medieval Manuscripts
  • Al-Qazwini’s Wonders of Creation: interactive exhibit on one of “The Cosmography,” one of the most important natural history texts of the medieval Islamic world
  • British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: virtual exhibitions on various aspects of the Library’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, which span the years 800–1600
  • Medieval Astrology: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
• Military Medicine
  • A Philadelphia Physician Encounters the Great War: exhibit on Dr. George W. Norris, who served in Europe in 1917–1918
  • Naval Medicine and the War of 1812: Harvard’s exhibit of osteological preparations that represent wounds received in naval combat during the War of 1812
  • Battle-Scarred: Caring for the Sick and Wounded of the Civil War: Harvard exhibit on battlefield surgery and surgical care, relief and sanitary work, and other aspects of military medicine
• Non-Western Medicine: Arabic/Islamic
  • Al-Qazwini’s Wonders of Creation: interactive exhibit on one of “The Cosmography,” one of the most important natural history texts of the medieval Islamic world
  • The Bindings of a Venetian Edition of Avicenna: the Venetian edition of one of the standard early medical texts
• Non-Western Medicine: Ayurvedic/Indian
  • Kundalini Yoga: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
• Non-Western Medicine: Eastern
  • Acupuncture: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Complementary Therapies: Masterworks of Chinese and Botanical Medicine: Harvard exhibit on alternative medical treatments
  • Hanaoka Sishu’s Surgical Casebook: interactive exhibit of a pioneering Japanese medical manuscript
• Non-Western Medicine: The New World
  • American Indian Health: collection of videos from the American Indian Health Symposium
  • A Voyage to Health: Journeys Through History: an exhibit on traditional Hawaiian navigation and voyaging practices from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Notable Figures in Medicine
  • Alexander Fleming (1881–1955): A Noble Life in Science: British Library exhibit on the man who discovered penicillin
  • Arnold Carl Klebs, 1870–1943: online exhibit on the tuberculosis specialist
  • Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler, 1849–1919: collection of photographs, full-text reproductions of works and letters, and other content on one of the fathers of modern medicine by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 
  • Dr. Jenner’s House: online collection from “the birthplace of vaccination”
  • John Snow @ UCLA: an online exhibit of John Snow’s work by the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA
  • The John Snow Archive and Research Companion: exhibit on John Snow and his contemporaries’ contributions to anesthesia, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health
  • The Scalpel and the Pen: Harvard’s exhibition on Oliver Wendell Holmes, noted for his work on puerperal fever

  See also: Canada: Notable Physicians

• Nursing
  • Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives: an exhibit from the U.S. National Library of Medicine on the American nurses’ campaign to force the acknowledgement of violence against women as a serious health issue
  • Massachusetts General Hospital: Nursing: online exhibit on the history of nursing in Boston
  • Pictures of Nursing: nursing as depicted on postcards from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • ‘So Much Need of Service:’ The Diary of a Civil War Nurse: diary of American nurse Amanda Akin from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • That I May be of Service: The Alumnae Association of the School of Nurses: an exhibition on the history of the Toronto General Hospital School of Nurses
  • The Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters: exhibit on the contribution of Canadian nursing sisters in the First World War
  • The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project: an international digital collaborative database on the founder of modern nursing
• Optometry
  • The College of Optometrists: includes online galleries of artificial eyes, contact lenses, ophthalmic lenses, spectacles, optical instruments, and microscopes from the British College of Optometrists
• Pharmacology
  • Drug Trade: Therapy, Pharmacy, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe: exhibit presenting the collection of 16^th-18^th-century drug jars at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
  • Drugs as Opiates, Drugs as Research Tools: exhibit on synthetic opiates and opioids
  • Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions: an exhibit on tobacco, alcohol, opium, cocaine, and marijuana from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Reading the Cards: virtual exhibit on 19^th-century advertisements, including health and medicine
  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society: series of online exhibitions and learning resources on the history of pharmacology
  • The Wood Library Museum: an exhibit of a variety of objects and instruments from the museum’s collections, including those related to airway management, alternative medicine, local anesthesia, machines and apparatuses, masks and inhalers, military anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, patient controlled analgesia, pediatric anesthesia, pharmaceutical, regional anesthesia, respiratory therapy, resuscitation, safety and monitoring, as well as artwork, awards, and memorabilia
  • William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards: collection of 300 pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the United States and France in the period 1875–1895 
• Phrenology
  • Talking Heads: an exhibit by Harvard on the origins of phrenology
• Public Health
  • An Infectious Idea: 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto: includes archival photographs and documents from 1883–present
  • Community Health: collection of videos on various aspects of public health, including the reduction of chronic disease, condom use, PTSD, bullying, obesity, and more
  • Death in a Glass: When Good Water Goes Bad: virtual exhibit on waterborne illnesses
  • Fighting for Breath: Stopping the TB Epidemic: exhibit on the global fight against tuberculosis
  • HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago: series of 8 collections from the Smithsonian on the political, social, and public health aspects of the AIDS epidemic
  • Magical Stones and Imperial Bones: Harvard exhibit on aspects of medicine’s history and impact on public health
  • New York Academy of Medicine Lectures: series of 40 digitized and catalogued radio broadcasts on public health from the 1950s
  • Public Health Symposium: collection of videos on a  number of topics pertaining to women’s health, including alcohol during pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), the prevention of substance abuse, and domestic violence
  • Project HOPE: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad: exhibit on Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), an international health care organization founded in the United States in 1958 to provide medical care and training to people in developing countries
  • Selling Smoke: Tobacco Advertising and Anti-Smoking Campaigns
  • The John Snow Archive and Research Companion: exhibit on John Snow and his contemporaries’ contributions to anesthesia, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health
  • This is Public Health: history e-book and virtual exhibition on public health in Canada

  See also: Disease, Infectious & Epidemic; Global Health

• Renaissance: Anatomy
  • Anatomia Animata: Anatomy and Medicine in William Harvey’s Century: an exhibit displaying medical books from the 17^th century, the time of William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood; also includes material on other contemporaneous developments, including the rise of microscopic anatomy, injection techniques, and anatomical experiments that transformed the understanding of the body 
  • Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corpus Fabrica: interactive exhibit on one of the most influential works in the history of medicine
  • Andrew Snape’s Anatomy of a Horse: interactive exhibit on the 17^th-century illustrated book
  • Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium: interactive exhibit on one of the first modern zoological works
  • Johannes de Ketham’s Fasiculo de Medicina: interactive exhibit of an early illustrated medical work
  • Ruysch’s Anatomical Curiosities: introduction and collection of images of the Dutch anatomist’s engravings from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Vesalius’s Renaissance Anatomy Lessons: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit

  See also: Anatomy; Anatomical Curiosities

• Renaissance: Astrology, Early Medicine, & Magic
  • ‘And There’s The Humor Of It:’ Shakespeare and the Four Humors: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit presents the humoral theory as portrayed in The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and The Merchant of Venice
  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit includes ex-voto anatomy, the Italian and Mexican traditions, early Spanish medical guides, and a gallery of ex-votos (devotional paintings)
  • Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit covers the topics of potions, monsters, herbology, magical creatures, fantastic beasts, and immortality
  • Shakespeare, Magic, and Witchcraft: includes themes of ghosts, magic, folklore and superstition
  • Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries: an exhibit on the Western European view of the natural world before the Scientific Revolution

  See also: Alchemy & Chemistry; Healing & Faith; Magic & Superstition

• Renaissance: Significant Works (excluding anatomy)
  • Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres: interactive exhibit of Paré’s collected works on the surgical treatment of wounds
  • Basil Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, Eichstatt, 1640: online exhibition of one of the Western world’s most significant botanical picture books
  • Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: interactive exhibit on Hooke’s illustrated book on the microscopic world
  • The Bindings of a Venetian Edition of Avicenna: the Venetian edition of one of the standard early medical texts
• Reproductive Health
  • A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit: an exhibit that includes hCG research, a timeline, advertisements, and more
  • Conceiving the Pill: Harvard exhibit on the work of John C. Rock and other notable scientists who were instrumental in the development of the birth control pill
  • Refocusing Family Planning: Selections from the Abraham Stone and Alan Guttmacher Papers: Harvard’s exhibition on the origins of Planned Parenthood

  See also: Women’s Health

• Surgery
  • Joint Replacement: virtual exhibit from the Museum of Health Care in Kingston
  • Reconstructing Lives: Harvard’s exhibition on organ transplantation
• Technology of Medicine
  • Drugs as Opiates, Drugs as Research Tools: exhibit on synthetic opiates and opioids
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit explores the medical ethics of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel
  • Fritz Kahn’s Body Machines: introduction and collection of images exploring the inner machinery of the human body from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine & Industry: an exhibit on the use of microbes in medical technology from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Joint Replacement: virtual exhibit from the Museum of Health Care in Kingston
  • Laboratory Instrument Computer: The Genesis of a Technological Revolution: exhibit narrating the development of the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC)
  • Roentgen’s Discovery of the X-Ray: introduction and collection of early x-ray images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
  • Science and Machines: photographic exhibit by the European Library on scientific and technological development since 1800, including medicine, natural theory, and natural sciences
  • Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Teratology
  • Teratology in Western Medicine Through 1800: an exhibit on the study of perceived abnormalities (‘monsters’) through the eyes of physicians and philosophers from Antiquity to the early 19^th century by the New York Academy of Medicine
• United States
  • ‘A Strange and Fearful Interest:’ Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War: an exploration of the use of photography and other media in coming to terms with the Civil War
  • Battle-Scarred: Caring for the Sick and Wounded of the Civil War: Harvard exhibit on battlefield surgery and surgical care, relief and sanitary work, and other aspects of military medicine
  • Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Doctor or Doctress?: online exhibit exploring American history through the eyes of women physicians
  • ‘Everyday Necessary Care & Attention:’ George Washington & Medicine: exhibit on Washington’s attentions to the health and safety of his family, staff, slaves, and troops from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Healing the Nation: Stories from the Civil War: an exhibit including the toll of the civil war, African Americans in Civil War medicine, nurses’ diaries and more from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Massachusetts General Hospital: Nursing: online exhibit on the history of nursing in Boston
  • Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons: journey of the African American physician from antebellum to modern times, from  the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Physicians’ Lives in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786–1907: collection of 828 family letters from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • So, What’s New in the Past?: The Multiple Meanings of Medical History: an exhibition exploring the multiple meanings people have found in the history of medicine within the United States, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Victorian Era
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit explores the medical ethics of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel
  • The Resurrectionists: a collection of broadcasts, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the early 19^th-century Scottish body-snatchers and murderers, William Burke and William Hare
  • The Victorian Dictionary: Exploring Victorian London: an interactive dictionary that covers the topics of crime, death and dying, disease, food and drink, health and hygiene, populations, prisons, religion and spirituality, sex, weather, women, and more
  • Victorian Freak Shows: introduction and collection of images from the British Library’s “Learning Bodies of Knowledge” exhibit
• Women’s Health
  • Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives: an exhibit from the U.S. National Library of Medicine on the American nurses’ campaign to force the acknowledgement of violence against women as a serious health issue

  See also: Reproductive Health

• Women in Science & Medicine
  • Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians: from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Doctor or Doctress?: online exhibit exploring American history through the eyes of women physicians
  • Early Women in Science: interactive exhibit including content by individual, country, language, and subject; also includes digitized versions of important works and a timeline
  • Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal: Interactive exhibit on the 18^th-century Scottish botanist’s illustrations of medicinal plants
  • Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine: Oral Histories: exhibit by Harvard presenting the origins of the foundation
  • Grete L. Bibring: The Modern Woman: exhibit on the first female full clinical professor at Harvard
  • The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project: an international digital collaborative database on the founder of modern nursing
  • The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Yellow Wall-Paper:” from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the exhibit focuses on Gilman’s seminal novel about a young woman driven mad by the rest cure
  • The Stethoscope Sorority: Stories from the Archives of Women in Medicine: Harvard’s exhibition on American women in medicine

  See also: Nursing; Canada: Nursin