Infectious Diseases

Recollections of Polio from Lancaster Physicians Still Living in 2024

Oral Histories of the Experience of Polio by Various Authors

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Armed and Ready: How Lancaster County Contributed to the Eradication of Smallpox

Meagan Schulman, B.A. M.A.

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Back to the Future: Public Health Policy and Immunology Technology in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases

Joseph Lahr, MD

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Unlikely Remedy: How Uncle Victor Escaped Deadly Flu Pandemic of 1918

D. Garth Wise. Republication courtesy of LNP | LancasterOnline

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The Iron Lung and the Polio Unit at Lancaster General Hospital

Henry S. Wentz, M.D.

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Typhoid Fever Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D. The following excerpts are part of a book entitled "Hale Columbia", a medical record of Columbia, PA. from 1893-1905. If you want more of his excellent medical summaries of institutions of Columbia, diseases and "cures"of those days, medical education in the 1800's, and physicians of Columbia, you may purchase his book from the Edward Hand Medical Museum for a $20 donation, which will be given to the Museum by Dr. Lahr. We appreciate Dr. Lahr's philanthropy and support of the Museum and medical history.

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Tuberculosis Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D.

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Smallpox Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D.

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Scarlet Fever Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D.

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Diptheria Excerpt from ‘Hale Columbia: A True & Complete Study of Infectious Disease & Medicine in a Small Pennsylvania Town at the Turn of the Century’

Joseph W. Lahr, M.D.

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Epidemics in Lancaster County

Henry S. Wentz, M.D. - Chapter 14 of 'Our Medical Heritage'

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H.M. Alexander, M.D. and the Lancaster County Vaccine Farm

Henry S. Wentz, M.D. - Chapter 29 from 'Our Medical Heritage' with Postscript written by Alan S. Peterson, M.D.

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Imported or Locally Sourced: Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Medical Men Who Fought to Understand It

Elizabeth Root

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Poliomyelitis in Lancaster County with Emphasis on the Iron Lung

Ellen Hendrix

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A City Besieged: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Lancaster

Meg R. Gerstenblith

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Lancaster County During the Smallpox Epidemic of 1883

Joseph Wilson Lahr, M.D.

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The Lancaster County Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and the Challenge to the Miasma Theory of Disease

John B. Osbourne

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