• History of Medicine at Dartmouth College
• Finding Articles about the History of Medicine
• Finding Historic Articles
• Online Resources

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History of Medicine at Dartmouth College

Rauner Special Collections Library
Archival records for Dartmouth Medical School are held by Rauner Special Collections Library. Their site has a link to "Ask a Reference Question"; for more extensive searches contact their staff for help.

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Finding Articles about the History of Medicine

Take advantage of the ability to limit your Medline search to articles in the History of Medicine subset.

PubMed: Enter your search terms into the query box and then click on the Limits tab (below the query box). Select “History of Medicine” from the Subsets drop down menu. This will limit your search to articles in history of medicine journals and selected citations from other journals. Click on the “Go” button next to the query box to execute your search. Ovid: Do your search as usual. Then click on “More Limits” (under the search box), select the search you want to limit and select “History of Medicine” from the “Subject Subsets” selection box. Then click on the red “Limit a Search” button.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Search for articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and dissertations on the topic of history of medicine, science and technology. Includes US and international publications from 1975 to present.

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Finding Historic Articles

OLDMEDLINE
Medline indexes articles back to 1966. OLDMEDLINE (about) indexes articles published from 1950 to 1965.

PubMed: OLDMEDLINE is searched along with Medline in your regular PubMed search. To only search OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965), enter your search terms into the query box and then click on the Limits tab under the search box. Select “OLDMEDLINE for Pre1966” from the Subsets drop down menu. Click on the “Go” button next to the query box to execute the search. Ovid: Start Ovid and from the “Choose a database” page, select Ovid OLDMEDLINE(R) database (the last listed) and click on “Continue”.

Web of Science
The Science Citation Index from Web of Science has records for articles published back to 1900.

19th Century Masterfile
An online index of nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.

Selected indexes and bibliographies (not online):

• Index Medicus, 1879-1965 (Dana Reference)
• Early American Medical Imprints 1668-1820 (microfilm in Jones Media Center)
• The History of Health Care Science and Health Care, 1700-1980: a Selective Annotated Bibliography (Dana Z6660.8 .E74 1984)
• Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army (Dana Reference)
• American Medical Bibliography 1639-1783 (Dana Z6659 .G8 1962) “A chronological catalogue, and critical and bibliographical study of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and articles in periodical publications relating to the medical sciences—medicine, surgery, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine—printed in the present territory of the United States of America during British dominion and the Revolutionary War” (from the title page)
• Morton’s Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine, 5th ed. (Dana Z6660.8 .M67 1991)
• An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (Dana Z6661 .L29 P74) “Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927” (from the title page)

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Online Resources

• National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine Web Site
  You can search the National NLM’s Historical Collections from this site. The NLM does not lend historical material in its original format; however they do lend copies of journal articles, copies of selected manuscripts, books and manuscripts on microfilm (when available) and copies of films and videos. Request these through DartDoc. The NLM has digitized selected material relating to the history of medicine, which is available on the web (see their Digital Collections page). The NLM also maintains an extensive list of Further Resources in History of Medicine.
• MedHist- Wellcome Library
  MedHist is a searchable database of internet resources on the history of medicine. You can also browse by topic, such as historical period, diseases, or locality.
• Medical Photographic Library- Wellcome Library
  The Wellcome Library’s Medical Photographic Library has a searchable database of over 160,000 historical medical images. There is a modest fee for academic use of the images.
• Karolinska Institutet History of Medicine
  This simple page offers links to web resources on the history of medicine by topic (indigenous cultures, classical Islamic medicine, history of diseases, etc.)