The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease by 
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease by 
Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History by 
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues by 
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine by 
The Western Medical Tradition, 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800 by 
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Approach 1: Search for books ABOUT a person or other subject, or search for a known book. Search the MERLIN catalog to look through titles, subject headings, some tables of contents. If a book is unavailable locally, scope out to All MERLIN, then to MOBIUS.
Approach 2: To find books that MENTION a particular work, person, technology, named idea, etc., use full-text searches. Search the library Search & Find, limiting to books, or search HathiTrust and use the Find In a Library function.
There are certain words that appear in the subject headings of items in the UM LIBRARIES CATALOG that constitute primary sources. The most important of them is sources, but there are others.
In the simple keyword search box, you can put such words after SU: in order to specify the SUBJECT field.
ex.: 1918 and (influenza OR flu) and SU:sources
In the advanced keyword search, you can put your search term(s) in the top box, and in the second box, put the word(s) you're using to locate primary sources in the next box, and change the drop-down menu to Subject:
Keywords that will help you find primary sources:
Depending on the period being studied, it can also be helpful to limit your search by publication date.
More keywords identifying primary sources in Library of Congress Subject Headings.
