As the only professional medical journal during that period, the journal has special value in history, and is still an important reference to tropical medicine. The main subjects includes: valuable historical documents about medicine in Taiwan, crucial studies on Taiwan medical history in 20th history, infectious diseases in Taiwan for the first fifty years of the 20th century, and surveys on infectious diseases such as TB and Dengue fever. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association on CD-ROM was finished in summer, 2002 comprising a total of 480 volumes. TBMC scanned the original documents with the permission of the Formosan Medical Association and National Taiwan University College of Medicine. The database is very easy to use and navigate with a carefully built index and a full-text search engine by adopting the UNICODE standard.