Medical Images
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Medicine
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Cartoons OR "Pictorial works"
AIDS (Disease)" OR HIV (limited to Images
MedPix is a database of medical images
Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
NYPL Digital Gallery Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) includes prints and photographs from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Images From the History of the Public Health Service: a Photographic Exhibit.
Extra-ordinary Anatomy: The Human Figure in Japanese Prints
College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library
Association of Medical Illustrators
Medical Heritage Library images on flickr Still in preparation. Currently 19th century
Puck (Not purely medical, but there are amazing images.)
National Cancer Institute -- Visuals Online: Infographics
Medicine and Madison Avenue, 1850-1920 offers advertisments
More sources for advertisements
Visual Culture and Health Posters
Yale Image Finder provides a more specific search of PubMed Central.
Historical Anatomies provides images from the National Library of Medicine's anatomical atlas collection, 14th-18th centuries.
Anatomia : 1522-1867 offers plates and illustrations from books in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Univ. of Toronto.
The following are the major US and British medical weekly periodicals. The online sources contain articles only, not advertisements. Browsing the paper copies of these journals is a good way to gauge the characteristic image styles of various eras.
US
Journal of the American Medical Association. (later called JAMA)
Cabot Science PER 4430 (1973:Nov.-Dec.-2007)
Microforms (Lamont) | Film S 3378 (1883-1920)
Widener | Sci 3320.6 (1921-2006)
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Online access
The New England journal of medicine.
Cabot Science | PER 5850 Current issues on display: General section
Widener | Sci 3320.3 Current Issues: Periodicals Reading Room
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Continues the:
Boston medical and surgical journal. 1828-1928.
Widener | Sci 3320.3
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Online (1828-1922)
Britain
British medical journal, 1857-1980.
Countway Medicine | Serial
Online (1857-1980)
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Lancet (London, England), 1823-
Online (1823- ) Articles, not page images
Online via HathiTrust (1823-1921) Page images
Cabot Science | PER 5080 (1969-2007, some,issues missing) [North American, 1966- ]
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Another approach is to browse through popular medicine magazines:
Today's health, 1950-1976. Chicago: American Medical Association.
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Continues : Hygeia (1923-1950) HOLLIS Record , Continued by: Family health HOLLIS Record
Prevention. 1950- . Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, Online 1990-