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Ancient Web: Stanford's 1918 Influenza Site Preserved a 1997 Web Lesson

Stanford's old 1918 influenza pages preserve a 1997-era academic web lesson on the pandemic, complete with historical photographs, public-health material, medical-response sections, graphs, bibliography, and the assumptions of its own time.

Ancient Web: Rosemary Jacobs Turned a Medical Injury Into a Decades-Long Warning

Rosemary Jacobs used a personal website to document argyria, silver exposure, medical literature, and decades of advocacy against unsupported health claims involving colloidal silver.

Ancient Web: Pirate Surgeon Spent Seven Pages on the Containers in a Medicine Chest

Pirate Surgeon digs through period medical sources and reenactment evidence to reconstruct the bottles, jars, boxes and other containers that belonged in an early-eighteenth-century medicine chest.