The Sources Behind the Medicine Atlas

A long-running general reference encyclopedia. The atlas cites it for its own articles on medical history, specialties and figures, the broadest of the sources on this trail.

A free online encyclopedia maintained by volunteer editors. The atlas uses it as a general reference for institutional and treatment history facts where a dedicated academic source was not available for that wave of research.

Roy Porter's one-volume history of medicine from antiquity to the twentieth century, the atlas's standard general history of the field.

Lois Magner's textbook history of medicine, a standard survey from ancient practice through modern biomedicine, used alongside Porter's history for broad coverage.

The World Health Organization's own published fact sheets on individual diseases, the atlas's standard reference for global case counts, mortality estimates and eradication status, each figure dated to its own reporting year.

The Robert Koch Institute's own history timeline, published on its own website, covering its 1891 founding through its current mission.

The Royal College of Physicians' own About Us page, describing its 1518 founding and current scope, a professional body's own record rather than a secondary account of it.

An EBSCO Research Starters reference article on Pasteur's development of germ theory, including a documented account of his rivalry and scientific complementarity with Robert Koch.

An academic article from Hektoen International, a peer-associated medical humanities journal, on the founding legends and documented origins of the Schola Medica Salernitana.

A monument database entry from Discover Islamic Art, a virtual museum project of the Museum With No Frontiers network, documenting the Bimaristan al-Nuri in Damascus, the one museum-database source on this trail.