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AIDS and AIDS Activism

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Cholera

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Deafness and the Deaf

Dentistry and Dentists

Dispensaries

Eugenics

Gross Clinic (The)

Home Remedies

Hospitals (Economic Development)

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19)
As World War I drew to a close in November 1918, the influenza virus that took the lives of an estimated 50 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919 began its deadly ascent. The United States had faced flu pandemic before, in 1889-90 for example, but the 1918 strain represented an altogether new and aggressive ⇒ Read More
Lazaretto

Legionnaires’ Disease

Medical Publishing

Medicine (Colonial Era)

Mummies

Mütter Museum

Nursing

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pharmaceutical Industry

Public Health

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Typhoid Fever and Filtered Water

University City Science Center

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

Women’s Education

Yellow Fever
For more than a century beginning in the late seventeenth century, sudden outbreaks of yellow fever sowed death and panic throughout Philadelphia and its environs. With medical science seemingly powerless against it, yellow fever was a terrifying and mysterious threat that rivaled any disease of the era in its capacity to take lives and disrupt ⇒ Read More