Addison Disease , Adrenpleukodystrophy , AIDS , Alzheimer Disease , Anomalies , Anthrax , Arthritis , Asbestosis , Asthma , Autistic Disorders , Behcet Syndrome , Bells Palsy , Bunyaviridae Infections , Cancer , Celiac Disease , Chagas Disease , Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome , Cholera , Chorea , Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease , Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , Crohn Disease, IBD , Cystic Fibrosis , Cytomegalovirus Infections , Dengue , Diabetes , Diphtheria , Disabilities , Down Syndrome , Dysentery , Ebola Fever , Epilepsy , Eye Diseases and Disorders , Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Animals) , Gaucher Disease , Gout , Graves' Disease , Guillain-Barre Syndrome , Heart Diseases , Hemophilia , Hemorrhoids , Hippel-Lindau Disease , Hodgkin Disease (Lymphoma) , Huntington Disease , Hypertrichosis , Influenza , Kallmann Syndrome , Kawasaki Disease , Klinefelter Syndrome , Klippel-Feil Syndrome , Lassa Fever , Legionellosis , Leprosy , Leptospirosis , Lyme Disease , Machado-Joseph disease , Marfan Syndrome , Measles , Meniere Disease , Mental Disorders , Multiple Sclerosis , Muscular Dystrophy , Myasthenia gravis , Neoplasms , Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases , Osteochondritis , Otorhinolaryngeal Disorders , Paget Disease (of Bone) , Pain and Pain Relief , Parkinson Disease , Pellagra , Peptic Ulcer , Pernicious Anemia , Phenylketonuria , Plague , Poisoning , Poliomyelitis , Porphyria , Proteus syndrome , Psoriasis , Puerperal Sepsis , Rabies , Rheumatoid Arthritis , Rickets , Rinderspest , Rosacea , Scarlet Fever , Scoliosis , Scurvy , Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , Sexually Transmitted Diseases , Sickle Cell Disease , Sjogren Syndrome , Skin Diseases , Smallpox , Stroke , Syphilis , Systemic Lupus Erythematosous , Tetanus , Thalassemia , Tinnitus , Tourette Syndrome , Trichinosis , Tropical Diseases , Tuberculosis , Typhoid Fever , Urogenital Conditions , Urticaria , West Nile Fever , Wilson Disease , Yaws , Yellow Fever , Zoonoses
- About Thomas Addison - WhoNamedIt
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- The AIDS History Project at GALEN, UCSF (US)
- HIV's Path Out Of Africa: Haiti, the US, then the World - Science Daily, Oct 2007
- The History of AIDS (up to 1986) - AVERT (UK)
- Reports on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic - UN AIDS
- In their own words: NIH researchers recall the early years of AIDS
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- On the Human-chimpanzee HIV-1 link - Univ of Alabama, Jan 1999
- A brief note on Alois Alzheimer - Founders of Neurology/U of Illinois
- About Alois Alzheimer - WhoNamedIt, and a picture of his grave
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- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine [Gould and Pyle] - Univ of Virginia (US)
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- Brief note on the History (and Physical Examination) of Arthritis - Wikipedia
- Chronic arthritis before 1876: early British cases suggesting rheumatoid arthritis [Storey et al.] - Annals Rheum Dis, Sep 1994
- About William Musgrave (1655-1721) - Wikipedia
- Asbestos: The Evil History - Asbestos Hazards Handbook, Chapter 13
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- A famous Turkish dermatologist, Dr. Hulusi Behcet. [C UStun; abstract] - via PubMed
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- Historical Notes Concerning Bunyaviridae infections [A Chakravarthy]
- ... see further down under Neoplasms/Cancer
- Coeliac Disease: some historical notes - Coeliac UK
- About CJR Chagas - (BR)
- Chagas disease found in ancient mummies - PNAS, Feb 2004
- About Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth - WhoNamedIt
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- About The History of the Cholera in Exeter 1832 by T Shapter
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- The BSE Inquiry - (UK)
- About Burrill Bernard Crohn - WhoNameIt
- Famous Ostomates and IBD Patients - from www.crohn-colitis.hu, via the Ostomy Association of SW Indiana (US)
- A History of Cystic Fibrosis [J Littlewood] - Cystic Fibrosis Medicine
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- A list of some Famous People with Disabilities - NCRS
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- Brief note on the History of Graves' (Basedow's) Disease - Wikipedia
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- About Thomas Hodgkin - WhoNamedIt
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- About the pianist Dinu Lipatti - Wikipedia
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- On the History of Huntington disease - Wikipedia
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- What disease was Akhen-Aton suffering from? [SM Arab]
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- Some notes on the History of Measles - History for Kids
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- Tracing the Course of the 1941-42 Measles Epidemic in New Haven
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- A painting depicting Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease [J-L David 1774]
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- The Extraction of the Stone of Madness by Hieronymus Bosch, painted 1475-80
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- History of Ulcer Diagnosis and Treatment - CDC (US)
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- Syphilis, 1494-1923 - CONTAIGON, Harvard
- The Sociology of syphilis in the 19th century [Tilles and Wallach] and the Stigma of syphilis in the 19th century France [G Tilles]
- On the Origins of Syphilis - Archeology, Jan/feb 1997
- Paul Ehrlich and Sulpharsphenamine - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Ehrlich finds cure for syphilis (1909) - PBS Online
- Bad Blood: Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Univ of Virginia, Health Sci Library (US)
- Historical Background of the Human Treponematoses [C Rodriguez-Martin] - Scielo (CL)
- The Mercurial Disease: An Inquiry into the History and Nature of the Disease ... [A Mathias], 1811 - via Google Books
- The History of Lupus Erythematosus [X Sierra]
- The History of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [MC Hochberg] - via Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.
- A History of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Lupus Auckland (NZ)
- On Beethoven's medical history
- History of Tetanus [J Ang], PPT slides 3-10 - Children's Hosp Michigan
- On Tetanus [Aretaeus the Cappadocian]
- Thalassaemia: the long road from bedside to genome [DJ Weatherall] - Nature Reviews Genetics, Aug 2004
- On the History of Tinnitus [E Willingham] - Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Titus's Tinnitus [B Dan; abstract only] - J Hist Neurosci, 2005, via PubMed
- Earliest historic reference of 'tinnitus' is controversial [S Dietrich] - J Laryngol Otol, Jul 2004
- About Georges Albert Edouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette - WhoNamedIt
- On the History of Tourette Syndrome - Wikipedia
- Some Historical Personalities with TS
- On Tourette Syndrome and Mozart [O Sacks; BMJ Dec 1992] - via PubMed Central
- Some notes on the History of Tourette Syndrome [G Stirling]
- Geschichte der Tics (in German) [S Hartung] - Gilles De La Tourett Syndrom/Deutschland
- Trichinosis in the Arctic: a review [FH Connell]
- Mozart's Death: Murder, Accident, or Disease? - BBC, Dec 2003 (UK)
- About some Exotic Infections, with historical footnotes [E Uthman]
- A brief History of Leishmaniasis - WHO
- Dracunculiasis: Historical background and important dates - WHO
- Parasitology Charts [R Leuckart; 1822-98]
- Some historical milestones on the Taxonomic chronology of Cryptosporidium [SJ Upton] - Kansas State Univ/Parasitology
- History of Malaria [Davis and Icke] - Royal Perth Hospital (AU)
- History of Malaria [BS Kakkilaya]
- Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal - CONTAIGON, Harvard
- A History of Malaria and the Panama Canal - CDC (US)
- Alphonse Laveran: Nobel Prize presentation 1907 [C Sundberg]
- About Laveran and the Discovery of the Malaria Parasite - CDC, and Sir Ronald Ross - Nobelprize.org
- About Quinine - Wikipedia
- Some Observations on Malaria and the Ecology of Central Macedonia in Antiquity [EN Borza] - U. of Indiana (US)
- Preventive Medicine, World War II: Malaria - US Army Medical Department
- Tuberculosis in History - NIAID/NIH (US)
- Tuberculosis, the enduring enemy - The Osler Library, McGill Univ (CA)
- Old Testament Biblical References to Tuberculosis [VS and TM Daniel] - Clin Inf Dis, 1999; 29:1557-8
- Brief History of Tuberculosis & its Treatment - Nat'l Tuberculosis C. (US)
- On the History of Tuberculosis - Wikipedia
- Tuberculosis: Curing in the Adirondacks - Adirondack Museum
- About Scrofula - Wikipedia
- Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis [Star and Bowker]
- Romance and tragedy of tuberculosis: Edward Archibald's contribution ... [MA Entin]
- Tuberculosis in history and art - Wikipedia
- Some Famous People suffering from Tuberculosis - Wikinfo
- About the Death of John Keats - Wikipedia
- About The Hunchback of Notre Dame (who may have suffered from Pott's disease = spinal tuberculosis) by Victor Hugo
- History of Tuberculosis in Canada - The Lung Association of Canada
- About Nils Ryberg Finsen (Lupus Vulgaris) - Nobel Foundation (SE)
- The Making of a Social Disease (Tuberculosis in 19th century France) - Univ of California Press
- History of diagnostic technology for diseases of the Lungs [CPC Warren] - CMAJ, Nov 1999 (CA)
- About The Plague in Athens ca. 430 B.C. [Thucydides], and the Plague Victims Found in Athens (4th & 5th century B.C.)
- Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim? [W Leavitt] - NOVA
- Typhoid Mary [J Rosenberg] - About.com
- Walter Reed and Typhoid Fever - Univ of Virginia, Health Sci Library (US)
- The Messenger of Death - New Haven Dept of Health, April 1927
- About Typhoid Mary - Urban Legends/Snopes.com and a picture of her grave
- About Sir Almroth Edward Wright - Wikipedia
- About Castrato, and the History of Castrati - Wikipedia
- The Castrati singers of Italy - Urological Sciences Research Foundation
- Phimosis in antiquity [FM Hodges]
- The Fate of the Foreskin [D Gairdner, 1949]
- The History of Urticaria and Angioedema [L Juhlin]
- Brief note on the History of the West Nile Virus [M Miles]
- History of West Nile Virus - State of Michigan (US)
- On Alexander the Great and West Nile Virus Encephalitis [Marr and Calisher] - EID, Dec 2003, and some comments - EID, Jul 2004
- About Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson - WhoNamedIt
- Brief Note on the Origin of Yaws
- Yellow Fever Epidemic 1793 - Museum of Philadelphia (US)
- The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793 - CONTAIGON, Harvard
- The Yellow Fever Connection - Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia (US)
- The Panama Puzzle (Yellow Fever) [A Cann] - Leicester (US)
- About Carlos Finlay
- The Summer of Pestilence (Yellow Fever in Norfolk, VA, 1855) [GD Armstrong] - CW Tazewell
- Yellow Fever and the Reed Commission 1898-1901 - Univ of Virginia, Health Sci Library (US)
- The Yellow Fever Collection - Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Univ of Virginia (US)
- About Major Walter Reed - Walter Reed Army Medical Center (US)
- US Politicians Who Died of Yellow Fever - The Political Graveyard
- Some notes on the Wildlife as Source of Zoonotic Infections/History [Kruse et al.] - EID, Dec 2004
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