Title: Contagion
Description: Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. The collection provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant "episodes" of contagious disease. These full-text resources are publicly available via the World Wide Web and are fully searchable. Materials are supplemented by explanatory pages that introduce concepts related to diseases and epidemics, historical approaches to medicine, and notable men and women.
Subjects: Communicable diseases, History, Epidemics