Understanding human anatomy, and how to diagnose and treat illnesses, has changed dramatically from ancient to modern times. This collection features people whose medical breakthroughs helped to save millions of lives.
Image of a New York Times press article entitled: CZAR'S HEIR HAS BLEEDING DISEASE This story was originally published in London on No...
This document depicts, in part, President Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War against Germany, launching America's involvement in World War One. ...
Image of the letter Charles Guiteau sent to General Sherman.
Image of a chart, depicting the Complications of Schizophrenia, from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Image of a photograph, from NOAA, depicting a diver using mixed gases at a decompression stop.
Image from the brochure Dr. Henry W. Greist: famed head of the world's farthest north hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska.
Elizabeth Packard wrote several books to financially support herself (since, under Illinois law, she no longer had the right to her dowry becase she w...
In June of 1871, America had better fire-fighting equipment than in "ye olden times," but whatever was available was still inefficient and unable to g...
This telegram (from a squadron official at Wilbur Wright Field in Fairfield, Ohio) to the Adjutant General (in Washington, D.C.) is a notice of death ...
School children were also vulnerable to the second-wave flu outbreak. This telegram gives notice that a girl, named Lucy Antone, was getting sic...
This article, published in the Cleveland Advocate during November of 1918, discusses an interesting phenomenon occurring during the Spanish Flu Pandem...
Elizabeth King - a character in The Descendants - signed a "Living Will" before she was seriously injured in a powerboat accident. What is a "Living ...
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