print email comment close Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics URL: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/index.html Description: This online collection "provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant 'episodes' of contagious disease. These materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- a total of more than 500,000 pages." Topics covered include the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 and Spanish influenza in North America in 1918-1919. From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Publisher: The President and Fellows of Harvard College Extra Keywords cholera plague syphilis tuberculosis vaccination florence nightingale LII Database Information: Record 27629 created by Barbara Bibel on 12/31/2008 Last modification on 01/14/2009 Published: 01/14/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27629