Every BMJ article published since the journal's first issue is now available online. This archive includes papers by James Simpson, who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform; Alice Stewart, who investigated leukaemia and prenatal x-rays; Richard Doll, who first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and other diseases; and the nurse reformer Florence Nightingale.

If you visit the advanced search page and go to the "Limit Results" field, you can set the search to trawl all content dating back to October 1840. The topic collections section also includes all articles dating back to 1840. The print issue archive lower down this page enables you to browse every print issue of the BMJ.

All BMJ research articles are openly accessible online. All non-research articles published between 1840 and 2006 are also available free, but they do require registration.

For an introduction to the archive, watch a series of specially commissioned videos that focus on some of the important subjects and people that have appeared in the journal's pages. You can access these videos at bmj.com/video

To find out more about how the archive was loaded on to bmj.com, read this editorial by BMJ deputy editor Tony Delamothe.

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