- Last Updated: Jun 9, 2025 2:24 PM
- URL: https://guides.chicagocollections.org/medical_history
- Print Page
ASK Chicago Collections
-
Ask Chicago CollectionsHave a question that isn't answered here? Try ASK Chicago Collections, a service where you can send your questions about Chicago history and culture to librarians from Chicago Collections member institutions.
Related Libguides
Archival Sources
-
Rush Medical College Records, 1837-1942, Rush University Medical Center Archives
-
Rush University Records, 1969- , Rush University Medical Center Archives
-
Rush Medical College Records, 1923-1941, University of Chicago
-
History of the Stritch Medical School of Loyola University by Reuben Myron Strong, 1951, University of Chicago
-
College of Medicine Records, University of Illinois Chicago [please email lib-spec@uic.libanswers.com]
-
Medical Ephemera and Pamphlet Collection, University of Illinois Chicago [Contains records from Augustana Hospital; Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery of Chicago; Chicago Homeopathic Medical College; Chicago Hospital College of Medicine; Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Chicago Maternity Hospital and Training School for Nursery Maids; Chicago Medical College; Chicago Medical & Surgical Institute; Chicago Summer School of Medicine; Dunham Medical College; German Hospital of Chicago; Hahnemann Medical College; Illinois College of Pharmacy Northwestern University; Illinois College of Osteopathy; Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute; Institute for the Deaf and Dumb; Institute of Medicine of Chicago; Jefferson Medical College; Mary Thompson Hospital (Chicago Hospital for Women and Children); Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center; Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital of Chicago; Rush Medical College; St. Joseph Hospital; Westside Hospital; West Side VA Hospital]
-
Chicago Medical College / Northwestern University Medical School / Feinberg School of Medicine Records, Galter Health Sciences Library
-
Northwestern University Dental School, Galter Health Sciences Library
-
School of Pharmacy of Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library
-
Woman’s Hospital Medical College of Chicago / Woman’s Medical College of Chicago / Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School Records, Drexel University (Penn.), College of Medicine Legacy Center
![[Dr. Thomas Johnnesco performing an operation at Cook County Hospital]](https://portal-ccc.s3.amazonaws.com/media/images/uic/64/b24g.jpg)
CAPTION: Thomas Johnnesco, MD, performing an operation at Cook County Hospital, 1910. Chicago Daily News, Inc. Chicago History Museum.
Link: explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicagohistory/71/gh9bj0d/
Books and other published sources
WorldCat allows you to search the holdings of libraries around the world. Check to see if these titles are at a library near you! If not, see if a local public library or a university with which you are affiliated allows you to do interlibrary loan. WorldCat may not include images or summaries for all titles.
Medical Schools
-
Good Medicine: The First 150 Years of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
by
ISBN: 1556520158Publication Date: 1987A history of what is now Rush University Medical Center and its predecessor institutions including Rush Medical College, Presbyterian Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, their nursing schools, and affiliations with Lake Forest University and the University of Chicago. -
History of Medical Practice in Illinois
by
Publication Date: 1927
-
History of Medicine and Surgery and Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago
by
Publication Date: 1922
-
Medical and dental colleges of the West: historical and biographical: Chicago
by
Publication Date: 1896
-
The Medical and Surgical Directory of Cook County, Illinois, 1888-89
by
Publication Date: 1888
-
-
Prominent physicians, surgeons, and medical institutions of Cook County
by
Publication Date: 1899Includes biographical sketches.
-
Northwestern University Medical School, 1859-1979
by
Publication Date: 1979A history of the Feinberg School of Medicine, written by Leslie B. Arey, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Anatomy from 1919 to 1987.
-
The Story of Rush Medical College
by
Publication Date: 1953A history of Rush Medical College from its founding in 1837 to its initial closure in 1942. Rush Medical College was affiliated with Lake Forest University, 1887-1898, and with the University of Chicago, 1898-1941. Presbyterian Hospital was the teaching hospital of Rush Medical College. Rush Medical College was reorganized in 1969.
General Medical Education
-
Reforming Medical Education
by
ISBN: 9780252033599Publication Date: 2009The University of Illinois College of Medicine has its origins in the 1882 opening of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. In 1897 the College of Physicians and Surgeons became affiliated with the University of Illinois. Solberg discusses the role of the College of Medicine and the city of Chicago from the late nineteenth century to 1920, and includes information related to many other institutions that now comprise the Illinois Medical District.
Online Sources
- Woman’s Hospital Medical College of Chicago / Woman’s Medical College of Chicago / Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School Digital Collections, Drexel University (Penn.), College of Medicine Legacy Center