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Welcome to the History of Medicine Research Guide where you will find a variety of library resources related to the history of the healing arts.

MedHist
A web search engine to help you find history of medicine and allied sciences resources.
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Resources featured on MedHist include, among others, online primary source documents, electronic texts and journals, collections of historical images, databases and datasets, and electronic discussion lists.
MEDLINE/Pubmed
The History of Medicine subset in MEDLINE/Pubmed indexes secondary literature dealing with the history of medicine and related fields.
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Tips for locating history of medicine articles within MEDLINE/Pubmed:

Limit search to the publication type [pt] "Historical Article"

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Limit search to the journal subset [sb] "History of Medicine"
IndexCat
Comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports and some journal articles published from the 1400s through 1950 and held by the National Library of Medicine.
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IndexCat, is the online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961).