Links
ONLINE SITES DEALING WITH MEDICAL ANTIQUES
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Several organizations deal with the history of medicine, and there are many places to visit on the internet. However, there are just a few sites that are devoted to medical instruments. Click on the underlined link to take you to the site.
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The Museum of Historical Medical Artifacts is a terrific new site that displays over a thousand photos of medical instruments representing a wide range of medical practice and craftmanship, with a wonderful collection of stethoscopes.
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The Wellcome Museum Image Library is a particularly nice site because it has images of a wide array of medical antiques and especially an extensive collection of stethoscopes.
https://wellcomecollection.org
The National Library of Medicine is another excellent source of information about medical antiques, including many historical photographs.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
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The Dittrick Medical History Center is an invaluable resource for studying the history of medicine. Their museum has a large collection of medical antique instruments.
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick
The New York Academy of Medicine is well recognized as a reference library on the history of medicine, including an extensive rare medical book collection.
http://nyam.org
The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has an extensive collection of antique medical instruments.
https://muttermuseum.org
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