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Medical History in Special Collections

This LibGuide is built to encapsulate the wide reaches of medical history. It is intended to assist researchers and students with use of archives and print materials available at the University of Arkansas Libraries.

In Special Collections

Arkansas Medicine

Sanitariums

Nancy K. Smith Postcard Collection

A collection of postcards featuring the hospitals of Arkansas. Specific focus on the military hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Booneville Sanitarium Project Records

Extensive collection of interviews, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards, and microfilm of sanitarium newspapers. The newspaper contains advice on tuberculosis care and happenings at the sanitarium. 

A Design for a Sanitarium (1910)

In his thesis for a bachelor's degree of architecture from the University of Illinois, Horn describes the global history of sanitariums and the power of natural healing before his own three building design. Includes a focus on hydrotherapy and the natural remedy of mud baths.

Health Legislation in Arkansas