Historical Medical Illustrations

Vintage illustrations of doctors and patients, reflecting historical practices and medical concepts in an artistic style.

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The theater doctor. / 25. (Registered title) | Patients and doctors. (title of all)
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Thomas Richardson Colledge (1796 - 28 October 1879) was a Scottish surgeon with the East India Company at Guangzhou (Canton) who served part-time as the first medical missionary in China. In 1837 he founded and served as the first president of the Medical Missionary Society of China. This portrait shows Dr. Colledge after he has completed an operation on a Chinese woman, explaining the outcome to his servant, who acts as an interpreter. The woman's son kneels in front, presenting a letter of thanks.
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Head of a young woman with a severe disease affecting her face and scalp. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1858.
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Middle Ages. Medical care in a hospital.
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Soldier with an abscess from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Sergeant M'Gillivray of the 68th (Durham) Regiment was shot in the shoulder in the Siege of Nijmegen, 1794. Entrance wound to the clavicle and exit at the scapula. Captured and imprisoned by the French for three years. Inflamed abscesses and ulcers cover his left shoulder and back. Cured by lancing, bathing and camomile decoction. James MacGilivray. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.
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Case of anorexia nervosa in female
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Anneke Jacobs van Thetenbul before and after an operation of a tumor. .
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An African dentist performing an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Wood engraving by MD.
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Cavre-G, De Meyer water drip doctor of the Storage Jersey , De Meyer, Arzt in Der Hydrotherapeutischen Anstalt in rules, Vallardi, Lithography Institute
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Florence Nightingale born May 12, 1820 in Florence, died August 13, 1910 in London, England was a British nurse, statistics, welcome from modern western nursing, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated,
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An invalid strapped into a special chair, next to him is a table full of medicine bottles. Coloured lithograph.
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Family Medicine, Medical - History
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Patient suffering from the skin disease 'lupus erythematosus', c. 1870 - in Or Before 1881 photomechanical print New York (city) paper collotype skin and venereal diseases. adult man. face. beard
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Medical Times Gazette, "Chronic Mania".
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The Allies: America: Hospital Nurse; Miss H W S, of Christianburg, Virginia Eugene Burnand (d.1931), Drawing, Pastel, Paper, Portrait, Frame, Photograph, Replica, Social history, Health and Medicine, War, Works on Paper
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A young woman being attended by a (homoeopathic) physician. Coloured photolithograph.
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Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
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Dermatology, Medical - History
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Remember Hospital Sunday! A woman representing Charity helping a man lying on the ground with his arm in a sling. In the background are the St. Luke's and Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
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A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
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Diagnosis, Medical - History
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Medicaments
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A surgeon applying a plaster with syrup from l'Isle de Candie to a patient's head. Engraving.
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A system of obstetrical tables, with explanations...
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Doctors, Alessandro de '.
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Female nurse standing with a man
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ROBERT BENTLEY TODD Irish medical practitioner Date: 1809 - 1860
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Successful amputation at the hip joint on casualty in American Civil War. Mortality from this procedure was in excess of 70%. Shippen's amputation. From 'Circular No.6', Surgeon General's Office, Washington, 1 November, 1865. Tinted lithograph.
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Crimean War: Florence Nightingale at Scutari Hospital, 1856, plus a portrait drawing. Process print, 1908.
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Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (September 4, 1789 - March 30, 1869) was an American surgeon who was the second president of the American Medical Association from 1848 to 1849, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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J. Ch. S. Czihak, doctor, doctor, around 1845 doctor in Vienna, A Utor, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Toothed Urethral ring for the treatment of masturbation
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SIR WILLIAM BOWMAN Medical : ophthalmic surgeon. Date: 1816 - 1892
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Alma Rice Powder, Medical - Dental
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MARY SCHARLIEB Medical practitioner : the first woman to obtain the M.D. degree at London University. Date: 1845 - 1930
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Eduard Lumpe (1813-1876), Dr med, Austrian gynaecologist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, 1795, James Malton