John Snow Cholera Data(johnsnow.rtwilson.com)
5 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
A dataset by Robin Wilson digitising John Snow's 1854 Broad Street cholera map, with death points, pump locations, and georeferenced maps for GIS software.
#history-of-medicine on Hacker News
4 stories tagged history-of-medicine, newest first.
Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne's Sweden Scroll (Ca. 1425–35)(publicdomainreview.org)
8 points by prismatic | 1 comments
Public Domain Review collection post presenting John of Arderne's illustrated medieval medical Sweden Scroll from around 1425–35.
Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything(smithsonianmag.com)
385 points by Hooke | 162 comments
Smithsonian Magazine article profiling physician Alice Hamilton and her campaign against workplace hazards and the widespread use of toxic lead.
The curse of the goitre in Switzerland(lrb.co.uk)
537 points by _ihaque | 237 comments
London Review of Books essay by Jonah Goodman on the history of endemic goitre in Switzerland and the campaign against it.