Find Primary Sources Online

Search for primary source materials related to the study and practice of medicine.

Digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts on diseases and epidemics worldwide.

Primary sources on the teaching of medicine at Yale, as well as tobacco advertising, public health posters, and medical instruments and artifacts.

More than 150 instruments or sets of instruments chosen for their illustration of past medical and dental procedures.

Full text pre-1923 books, journal articles, government publications, and other sources.

Online access to images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.

Texts, videos and audio files on the history of medicine and public health.

Online exhibitions on such topics as Radium in America; a doctor's experience in World War I; astrology in medicine; and the history of vaccination.

Rare books, manuscripts, and 19th century pharmacy cards.

Open access to archives and modern manuscripts; films and videos; prints and photographs; and rare books and journals.

These digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war.

Over 30 hours of audio, complete transcripts, and additional materials including photographs, ephemera, and portraits that tell the story of women who had an impact on the field of medicine.