Structure of the Human Body

This site comes from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago. It is an online resource run by Dr Fredrick Wezeman and Dr John Santaniello. Although parts of the site are password protected for current students of the medical school there is still a lot of handy resources available for you to access.

One example is Learn 'Em in which you can view diagrams of nerves and arteries, click on them and get their names. There is also a cross-sectional tutorial where you can view various parts of the body in image, MRI or CT form.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/index.htm

Medicine and Madison Avenue

This website contains information about medical advances throughout history and how they were supported by advertising. There are advertisements from the 19th and 20th centuries for everything from cold medications to Pfizer pharmaceutical company. It also details a timeline from the 1840s to the 1990s of medical discoveries and the regulation of advertising and drugs.

Some of the ads are fascinating - its worth a look.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/

October New Books List

The October New Books list is now available on the Clinical library homepage. Check it out at:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libs/clin/clin.html

New England Female Medical College

Read all about the first Medical College to offer medical training for Women. It was established in Boston in 1848 by Dr Samuel Gregory.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-femalemedcollege.html

Polio Vaccine and the US Government

I have found an interesting website containing information about Dr Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. It contains press releases from the Government about the vaccine and its distribution. The website is part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

Check it out at:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/salk/salkdocuments.html