American Association for the History of Medicine
http://www.histmed.org/
Amazed at how crudely medicine was practiced in San Francisco just a 100 years ago? This organization founded in 1925 takes the mystery out of medicine in yesteryear. You can even subscribe to the AAHM’s Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

American Historical Association
http://www.theaha.org/
Manna for history buffs and professionals. Check out the publications!

Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
http://www.barbarycoastcasino.com/
At least there’s a hotel and casino (granted, in Las Vegas) that attempts to immortalize some of the fun people had inside the Barbary Coast a hundred years ago.

Barbary Coast Trail
http://www.barbarycoasttrail.com/
A wonderful site from the San Francisco Historical Society that introduces visitors and residents to a 3.8-mile walk through historic San Francisco.

California History
http://www.californiahistory.com/
Hosted by the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly in the town of Paradise, this site is packed with interesting California history links.

California Historical Society
http://www.calhist.org/
The definitive site and place to support for anything historical relating to San Francisco, or California for that matter. Be sure to check out James J. Rawls’ California History Online.

Chinese Herbal Medicine
http://www.cathayherbal.com/library/
There are very few good sites in English on this subject, but this online library from Sydney, Australia, is about the best.

Dittrick Medical History Museum
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum.htm
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, this museum has a complete pharmacy from the 1880s as well as phenomenal displays of 19th-century surgical instruments and books.

Museum of the City of San Francisco
http://www.sfmuseum.org/
A great index plus lots of links make Gladys Hansen’s site a great place to browse.

Mütter Museum, Philadelphia
http://www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml
If you like the descriptions of the Pacific Anatomical Museum in Inside the Barbary Coast, you’ll enjoy this museum of anatomical delights, run by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, founded in 1787.

National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html
This link takes you directly to information on one of the world’s great history of medicine collections, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Osler Library of the History of Medicine
http://www.health.library.mcgill.ca/osler/
For serious students of the history of medicine, you can’t beat Sir William Osler and what’s available through this Montreal site.

Palace Hotel
http://www.sfpalace.com/
This site, which could be so much better, merely whets your appetite in its description of San Francisco’s most history-filled hotel, built in 1875 and rebuilt in 1933 and again in 1991. Yes, this is where Enrico Caruso stayed and vanished from after the Great Earthquake of 1906.

San Francisco Bay Area Great Books Council
http://www.greatbooks-sf.com/
Info on meetings, discussion groups, and literary retreats in the Bay Area; site not updated frequently, unfortunately.

San Francisco History
http://www.sf50.com/
This site has dozens of links detailing many aspects of San Francisco’s history, including escapes from Alcratraz. The best link is a San Francisco timeline from 2960 B.C. to the present.

San Francisco Historical Society
http://www.sfhistory.org/
This site keeps getting better and better. News of walking tours and special lectures on prominent San Francisco historical figures like boxer “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, who figures prominently in Inside the Barbary Coast, are included.

Sandow Museum
http://www.sandowmuseum.com/index.html
Escondido bodybuilder and trainer R. Christian Anderson operates this online museum dedicated to Eugen Sandow who appeared several times at the Palace Hotel during the 1890s.

Soon’s Historical Fiction Site
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/index.html
An awesome gateway to all things historical and fiction, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Hats off to webmaster Soon Y. Choi.

Yale Medical History Library
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/
The John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale contains 300 medical incunabula and thousands of rare medical books, journals, pamphlets, prints and photographs - all relating to medicine before 1920.

Have other links to suggest? Email david.jensen@insidebooks.net