The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “Why doctors once claimed fresh air was dangerous for the sick.”
- Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief
- How Night Air Became Good Air, 1776-1930
- Notes on Nursing
- The natural history of insensible perspiration: a forgotten doctrine of health and disease
- Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination
- Ventilation techniques in the 19th century: learning from the past
- Lust for life: coping with tuberculosis in late nineteenth-century Europe