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Historical Images

Images from the History of Medicine.
This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 hsl/images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Histology, Pathology  & Clinical

Video Atlas of Human Anatomy by Dr. Robert Acland. Streaming video of unenbalmed human dissections.

Images.MD
An encyclopedia of medical images. It has over 48,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.

Wilson: Histology Image Review
Consists of 20 chapters encompassing cytology, all of the basic histological tissues, and the organ systems. Contains light microscope and electron microscope images.

eMedicine
Search eMedicine's image collection. The results displayed include a thumbnail image, the article title, and the image caption.

Catalog of Clinical Images
From the University of California, San Diego. Pictures of various physical exam findings.

HEAL
Health Educational Assets Library, is a national web-based repository of multimedia health education resources. One can browse through the collections with a navigation tree organized by Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to find specific multimedia files. Includes materials for all levels of health sciences instruction, including K-12, higher education, professional health sciences education, and patient and consumer education.

A Musculoskeletal Atlas of the Human Body
From the University of Washington. An extensive collection of anatomic drawings of the musculoskeletal system. 

Visuals Online
From the National Cancer Institute, this database contains images from the collections of the Communication Services Branch and Mass Media Office of the Office of Communications, National Cancer Institute.

Wired.MD
A delivery system for patient education information. Patients can access, by a code number, videos and printed text information on a variety of health procedures and other medical information in several languages.

The Visible Human Project

Home page at the National Library of Medicine.

  • Net Anatomy Multi-modal anatomy teaching tool from Scholar Educational Systems, Inc.
  • Visible Human Male from the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center. Sample images, reconstructions and animations, browser, products and labeled images.
  • Visible Human Female from the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center. Sample images, products and browser.

More Resources

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) provides an extensive list of image resources.

A listing of web sites with medical images and illustrations from the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) web site.

 

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