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Information about the Collection

This collection contains both primary and secondary sources about United States medical history, spanning from the mid 19th century to the present. This collection is in line with the Duke University Medical Center Archives policy and has been added to provide more well-rounded research.

Information about this collection can be found partially here, along with looking at the finding aid which can be done either online at the archives’s website or at the archives physical location. Due to the nature of most of these items they can only be obtain by visiting the archive, although copies can be sent to you for some items. Please contact the archive for more information.

Public Domain



Many medical texts and sources are a part of the public domain and are freely accessible. These sources can be used in conjecture with texts found in this collection. Some sources where public domain materials are found include:

Google Books

HathiTrust

Internet Archive

Wellcome Collection (this is medical focused)

And here are some texts that are available as public domain that relate to some of the sources found on this site:

Accidents : popular directions for their immediate treatment : with observations on poisons and their antidotes/ by Henry Wheaton Rivers (1853)

A history of the National Tuberculosis Association : the anti-tuberculosis movement in the United States / by S. Adolphus Knopf (1922).

Traumatic shock/ by Walter B. Cannon and Stanton A. Friedberg, M.D.