The Special Collections Department at Bryn Mawr includes a large number of printed books and manuscripts from medieval Europe to the early twentieth century on medicine, epidemics, and public health. The collections are available for class use and assignments, and many of the works are available digitally.
Below: Frontispiece illustrations from Harriette Merrick Plunkett's Women, Plumbers, and Doctors, or, Household Sanitation. (New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1885.)