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www.nhshistory.net/

This site, maintained by Geoffrey Rivett, is based around two books he has written: From Cradle to Grave – of which there is an extract, and The development of the London Hospital System, 1823-1982. It is kept up to date, already having a chapter on John Reid and provides an excellent broad outline of events in English healthcare over nearly two centuries.

www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm

A history of anaesthesia and pain. Not for the squeamish surfer.

medweb.bham.ac.uk/histmed/

The centre for the history of medicine of the University of Birmingham medical school has a wonderful history of Egyptian medicine.

www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

John Snow is a legendary figure in the history of public health. Here you can see his maps showing the location of the Broad Street pump – from which he famously removed the handle, halting one of 19th century London’s cholera outbreaks. This has ever since been seen as a significant public health intervention in the defeat of cholera.