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Medical Images

Many of these sites allow for free use of images for educational purposes, but others require that you request permission or pay a usage fee. Please check the usage guides for each site prior to downloading images. For more information about copyright and fair use, please see the Library's copyright page.

Cartoons 

• 500 Diet, Fitness, Health and Medical Cartoons
• Andertoons - Medical Cartoons
• Benita Epstein Cartoons - Medical Cartoons
• Danscartoons.com - Medical Cartoons

Illustrations & Images 

• Anatomia 1522-1867 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)
• DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas (Johns Hopkins)
• Google Image Search
• Hardin MD: Medical Pictures/Disease Pictures (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa)
• Historical Anatomies on the Web (National Library of Medicine)
• Historical Medical Poster Collection (Yale Medical Library)
• Images from the History of Medicine (National Library of Medicine)
• Medical Images (Duke University Medical Center Library Online)
• MedPix: Medical Image Database (Uniformed Services University )
• NIH Image Bank (National Institutes of Health)
• Parasite Image Library (CDC)
• Public Health Image Library (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• SkinSight - formerly VisualDxHealth 
• Trauma Image Database (Trauma.org)
• Wellcome Images
• Yale Image Finder (Yale School of Medicine)

Interactive Anatomy 

• Visible Body

Videos 

• Heart and Lung Surgery Videos (Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine)
• Medical Gross Anatomy - Dissection Videos (The University of Michigan Medical School)
• Medical Gross Anatomy - Surgical Videos (The University of Michigan Medical School)
• ORLive Archived Webcasts (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center)
• Videos in Clinical Medicine (The New England Journal of Medicine)
• Videos of Surgical Procedures (MedlinePlus)