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AIDS and AIDS Activism

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Cholera

City of Medicine

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Deafness and the Deaf

Dentistry and Dentists

Dispensaries

Duffy’s Cut

Environmental Movement

Eugenics

Gross Clinic (The)

Home Remedies

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19)

Insurance

Lazaretto

Legionnaires’ Disease

Medical Publishing

Medicine (Colonial Era)

Mütter Museum

Nuclear Power

Nursing

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pharmaceutical Industry

Public Baths and Bathing

Public Health

Root Beer

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Trails (Recreational)

Typhoid Fever and Filtered Water

University City Science Center

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

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