An anaesthetic being administered at the Queen's Hospital Sidcup in 1919 I would be grateful if you would inform us of any broken links: email the webmaster
Rheumatology Links:
British Society for Rheumatology : starting place for professionals with many useful links, and containing up-to-date news and views
Rheumatology: home page of the BSR's journal
American College of Rheumatology
Arthritis Research UK ; previously the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc). Many useful leaflets about arthritis can be downloaded from this excellent site which has recently been updated
Arthritis Care: A charity for arthritis sufferers. Arthritis Care has been named as one of the "Daily Telegraph"'s Christmas Charities for 2008; view a video clip
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society: for sufferers from RA
The National Osteoporosis Society
The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS)
ARMA - The Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance - the UK umbrella association bringing together support groups, professional bodies and research organisations in the field of arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions.
Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center - an excellent site full of information for professionals and patients
ILAR: The International League against Rheumatism
National Electronic Library for Health (NELH)
An interesting site about experience of RA is DIPEX
Sites with a local interest:
An anaesthetic being administered at the Queen's Hospital Sidcup in 1919
The Townshend Family - is a large family website with information about the Sydneys at Frognal House
Welcome to Sidcup - Steve Hadlow's site
Medical and medical history sites:
The BSR's rheumatology library catalogue - the Heberden Library
OMNI/BIOME - medical resources website
The Hospital Records database - a useful site for identifying the location of historical information about UK hospitals.
An excellent directory of historical resources is at Tulane University.
The Wellcome Library - online catalogue of the Wellcome Institute
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine - houses the National Archives of Plastic Surgery located at Harvard Medical School and includes the papers of Varazstad Kazanjian
The Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre: website of the archives of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
The History of Anaesthesia Society