Healthcare Interactions Through Time

A historical view of healthcare featuring a nurse feeding a baby and a somber elderly man in a nursing home, showcasing moments of care and solitude.

Woman laboring on her knees in hospital overhead shot
Woman laboring on her knees in hospital overhead shot
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Reportage in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France. A nurse chats to a patient.
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Reportage in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France. Isolation room in the unit.
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Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme : interviews, nursing care and activities.
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Woman appears to have electrocuted a man in a bathtub with a toaster; Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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B/W Female doctor examines 1 yo child with vision problem as she sits in her crib.
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The Sleep Walkers -- Hard Wakening... Sleep-drugged Carol Courtney is lifted out of bed by nurse at end of her 15 minute sleep. She hates to get up - but she'd be pretty sore if they let her sleep. May 25, 1940. (Photo by Camera Features).
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Newborns in the a nursery of Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. 1942 Photo by Jack Delano.
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Man with a large periosteal sarcoma springing from his shoulder
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Khusbun Nessa lives in the slums of Howrah, suffers from tubercolosis and is forced to stay in her bed at home. Her family takes care of her. Her situation was so dramatic, that she needed stationary treatment. As, due to her sickness, she was always cold and the hospital staff would not give her a blanket, she returned home and is trying an ambulatory therapy. Howrah, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, Asia
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Senior citizen with dementia lying in her room in a retirement home, portrait, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
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Group of bridesmaids with surgical masks before the wedding. KEILA & RUB
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Night care by a team from the SMUR d'Abbeville, emergency doctor, State Certified Anesthesiologist (IADE) and firefighter from SDIS 80 of a pregnant woman, about to give birth at her home. Support up to the delivery room of the maternity ward.
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Silver gelatin glass diapositive from 1897 by Rudolf Pöch showing a person suffering from plague in Bombay, documenting health condition and agony.
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Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Christel, 32, has suffered from anorexia for 2 years. Her body mass index (BMI) is 16.7 and is extremely thin.
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Cardiac Care - A father is teaching his son to read.
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Reportage on home birthing. Gisèle, an independent midwife, helps couples who wish to have a non-medicalized home birth in a family setting. Home births represent roughly 90% of births throughout the world, but only 1% in France.
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The Diving Engineer (DTECC). Detail intake of a diver with respiratory equipment
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Dentist On Wheels - Cyprus' First Mobile Dental Unit - A small girl is helped into the surgery by a Sister. Her friends seem to find this an occasion for great amusement, but their turn will come. August 01, 1950. (Photo by Central Office Of Information Photograph).
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Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Chloe, 24, suffers from anorexia. Her progress is followed at the SOS Anor Centre in Paris, France who offer multidisciplinary treatment. Psychomotor therapy session during which she has to situate herself amongst several outlines of women.
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Elsevier photo collection. Arnhem municipal hospital, staff doctors wrapped liver 2-year boy. transplant world. boy little child couple. surgeons transplant Arnhem. left Dr. S. Sluis, Dr. M.H. Van Der Heyde Dr. Schalm Sr. December 3, 1968. Arnhem
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Reportage in a state nursing home in Haute-Savoie, France.
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Artwork: "Dental Clinic in Kyoto", Japan, 1945, ink, 8" X 10-5/8". Artist: Barse Miller. Catalog Number: D.5.3.46. US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias (Torrance). Hospital beds. 1934, Israel, Tiberias
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Columbia Electric Dental Engine, Medical - Dental
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Stool for feeding patients in hospital corridor
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First Aid Training. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Red Cross in Batavia. Princess Margriet Hospital in Batavia. Blood bank. Nurse is behind desk and telephones. February 9, 1949. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Home help for families. CAF contract (birth supplement). TISF: Social and Family Intervention Technician, Stephanie works with the P family following a difficult pregnancy (4 years ago) and as part of a CAF (birth replacement) contract. It helps parents with daily tasks and in the management and education of children. Nathan, 3 years old, comes to wake up his brother Romain, 7 years old.
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Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme: interviews, nursing care and activities.
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Symbolic picture on the subject of a nursing home. Family pictures in front of an upright hanger in a nursing home., Heidelberg, Germany, Europe
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Reportage in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France. A nurse accompanies patients on a walk.
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Description: Volunteer Dentists Tour Hong Kong Villages. The dentist's chief assistant and translator holds the torch for a difficult extraction. The team is working in a village medical clinic which has no facilities for dental treatment. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969
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Report in a snoezelen space in Liège. Mony, 85, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, evolves in this multi-sensory environment that is both soothing and stimulating, accompanied by Marc Thiry, physiotherapist specialized in psychomotricity. Professor Thiry has been following Mony since his disease was diagnosed 5 years ago. By stimulating the senses, these spaces reduce the anxiety of people with Alzheimer's who, despite their illness, retain a sensory memory. These spaces are both beneficial for the patient and for the nursing staff because they allow them to establish a special relationship and to set up means of communication other than speech. This room is equipped with an oil disc lamp which has relaxing or even hypnotic effects and a water bed heated to 37C which plays music.
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Reportage on home birthing. Gisèle, an independent midwife, helps couples who wish to have a non-medicalized home birth in a family setting. Home births represent roughly 90% of births throughout the world, but only 1% in France.
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Female doctor suffering from a headache with a male doctor sitting beside her
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Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Reportage in a snoezelen room in a residency that houses adult autists in Liège. Rémy, 40, moves around in this multi-sensory environment, which is both soothing and stimulating. He is accompanied by Chantal, a specialised snoezelen enabling practitioner. These snoezelen rooms allow autistic people to develop other means of communication, and to create a privileged relationship with the carer as well as stimulating the senses. Rémy is in a harp cradle, a cradle that has musical strings and allows the resonance of each note to be felt.
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Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Description: Hong Kong under the microscope. Nurse Tang is one of many health visitors who daily trek many miles to the more inaccessible communities in the New Territoies to carry across their message for better health. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969
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The eyesight of a person suffering from glaucoma : the loss of peripheral vision (tunnel vision).
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Malaria in Sierra Leone.
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Report in a snoezelen space in Liège. Mony, 85, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, evolves in this multi-sensory environment that is both soothing and stimulating, accompanied by Marc Thiry, physiotherapist specialized in psychomotricity. Professor Thiry has been following Mony since his disease was diagnosed 5 years ago. By stimulating the senses, these spaces reduce the anxiety of people with Alzheimer's who, despite their illness, retain a sensory memory. These spaces are both beneficial for the patient and for the nursing staff because they allow them to establish a special relationship and to set up means of communication other than speech. This room is equipped with an oil disc lamp which has relaxing or even hypnotic effects and a water bed heated to 37C which plays music.
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Germany, Lehnin, 25.09.1992, Lehnin Abbey, nursing home, sister, barrack
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Please contact us before using for any commercial purposes. Odette Ambulher was born on the 17th September 1901. She is celebrating her 111th birthday in the retirement home in Laigné-en-Belin, Sarthe in France. Odette Ambulher has 5 children ranging from 77 to 89 years of age.
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Salon offering Chiropody, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Photo essay in a French Medico-Educational Institute. This institute takes care of 26 autistic teenagers.
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Medical personnel, such as Hospitalman First Class Horl W. Cantwell, treat various injuries and prescribe medication for approximately 100 Marines daily at the Marine Aircraft Group-12 dispensary, located at Marine Air Base, Chu Lai. This routine is instrumental in providing necessary medical care during the Vietnam War.
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After Plastic Surgery. April 05, 1943.
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Left side profile of US Army CPT Mansell, a pharmacist for the 46th Combat Support Hospital sitting at a desk finishing her daily paperwork. The Hospital is located at the old American Embassy Compound in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her mission in Somalia is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: US Embassy, Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)
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Ukraine, Pripyat, Chernobyl. The Hospital MsCh-126 (medical-sanitary unit). Infant beds in maternity area.
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India: c. 1938 Original caption: "Dr." Singh is a dentist. Some dentists in India are well trained, but others receive degrees by mail from distant cities. "Dr." Singh believes in advertising with the laughing man and false teeth.
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Muhammad Ali getting his first facial in 1985 in Louisville Kentucky