Historical Medical Practices

Vintage photographs portraying medical staff and patients in various healthcare settings from the early 20th century, highlighting historical practices and environments.

Masked surgeons perform an operation while a nurse administers ether to anesthetize patient. Ca. 1920.

Description: Acting Superintendant & Hospital Staff Bloemfontein Burgher Camp. Location: Bloemfontein hospital, staff, boerwar, concentrationcamps, africa, kimberleyburghercamp

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Doctors interrogating patients. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Interior of a state clinic, Pennsylvania: a nurse is shown seated at a desk, while doctor measures a girl's height and other patients wait to be seen. Photograph, 1910/1930

Div.san.anst.nro.15. Hospital room. Recorded at 12.IV.1916. .

Serological testing being conducted at Base Medical Laboratory #1 in St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France. The photograph captures W. W. Soper, S. C., possibly a soldier or medical personnel, on March 27, 1919. The blood sample being tested is described as 18SLED: 3 SUMBER B, taken on January 30, 1919. The image showcases the serological department's work in diagnosing and treating medical conditions related to the ongoing World War I.

Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Mikhail Kalinin Tasting the Food in a Military Hospital by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1921/Photograph/Russia/Genre,History

Masked surgeons perform an operation while a nurse administers ether to anesthetize patient. Ca. 1920.

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Doctors interrogating patients. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Hospital: "Persen" bath baths for epidemia. .

Dr.C.MacLean,Ajlun.GileadMissionHospital.Thenursessittingroom.1940,Jordan, ʻAjlūn

Kum burnu veterinary visite. .

Feldspital 1506. .

Paris - Volunteer Hospital No. 4 bis. Japanese Red Cross Volunteer Hospital No. 4bis. Japanese red cross. Paris. Anonymous photography. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1914-1918.

Princess Juliana of the Netherlands visits a Red Cross centre in Paramaribo.

The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients receiving their daily financial allowance for food; an illiterate patient (right) has his thumb inked to provide a thumb-print receipt. Photograph, ca. 1910.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. H.O. Wagenaar. survivors flight disaster "Neutron". August 1957. Guinea

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918.

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Tom Kano. Others: George Nakano, Keiko Kamahara, Ansel Adams

Dr. H. Torrance, Tiberias. Group. Staff at entrance of hospital. 1940, Israel, Tiberias

Moving royal household effects; London with travel cot with pr. Irene. .

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Linen hospital Hollandia. undated. Hollandia, Guinea

Image showing a group of people working together in a laundry facility at Karhoun Hospital No. 65 during World War One. The hospital, located 8 kilometers northeast of Brest, Finistere, France, had its own laundry service to ensure clean and sanitary conditions for the patients. The photograph was taken on January 6, 1919, by photographer E.W. Soper.

photograph of surgeons standing near a patient on an operating table at Professor William W. Keenís Clinic, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, December 10th 1902

New Hadassah University Medical Centre, Jerusalem (Scopus) Group investigating the electric cookers. 1934, Israel

African-American Women in the Hospital Garments' Class of Branch no. 6 of the New Orleans Chapter, which has been fitted for the use of African-American Women by Louise J. Ross, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918

Healthcare professionals arranged outside the Stadshotellet in Haparanda, during the First World War.

Original caption: "Hospital #6. Numbers 75-59 Dr Lines' hospital photographs (see album) Health negatives sent to Dr. J. F. Worley.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Mahatma Gandhi during the appendicitis operation of his grand daughter Manu at Patna, Bihar, India, Asia, May 15, 1947 - MODEL RELEASE NOT AVAILABLE Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Description: Children's Ward - Bloemfontein - Burgher Camp. Location: Bloemfontein hospital, childrens, ward, boerwar, concentrationcamps, africa, bloemfonteinburghercamp

Soissons, Aisne, France three nurses in a moment of relaxation in their room , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France Trois infirmières dans un moment de détente dans leur chambre). Rear-Front, woman, work scene, interior view, group portrait, care center, work clothing, medical staff, army, First World War, Human Starries, Daily Life, Habitat , Architecture, Health, Clothing, Society

Hôpital Cochin. Photograph by Léon Bal, 1902.

Original caption: "Eye examinations. Contract Physician Dr. Evans and Field Nurse Mabel Cowser at San Manuel Reservation.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Sgt. 1cl. J.G. Jones, S.C. took this photograph on 3-12-19 at U.S. Hospital No. 57 in Paris, France. The image shows a group of nurses arranged in rows. The names of the nurses are listed from left to right in each row, and they include Misses L. Urban, U. Stewart, R. Kunkel, M. Morton, Florence King, W. Gardner, R.A. James, I.A. Borg, E.J. Anderson, H.C. Cahill, P.H. Droddy, S.J. Wilson, M.E. Thompson (Chief Nurse), S.G. Robebte, E. Parrish, M.L. Campbell, L.N. Sleeman, D. Mecklenburg, M.M. Mason, B.I. Thun, M.L. Lyon, E.M. Thomas, E.M. Thorne, H. Magnese, L.B. Beard, Harriet H. Baird, Ella M. Jones, E.F. Lloyd, Laura Lewis, A.E. Kling, G. Holmes, M. Peebles, Stella Terrill, Edna E. Cook, and Eleanor S. Hall.

Canteen installed to rescue the wounded at the Station of North: the director. The director and a nurse settled at their office at the Gare du Nord designed to receive the wounded, 10th arrondissement, Paris, 1914-1918 Anonymous. Canteen installed to rescue the wounded at the Station of North: the director. The director and a nurse settled at their office at the Gare du Nord designed to receive the wounded, 10th arrondissement, Paris, 1914-1918. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1914-1918.

Two unknown nurses, Anonymous, 1945 - 1956 photograph Two unknown nurses. Photo related to the Wachenheimer family. photographic support gelatin silver print

Description: Morning sick parade at the Company's Hospital, Masjid-i-Sulaiman. Description: Group of Medical Officers and Hospital Staff at the Oil-Fields Hospital, with Dr. Young, Chief Medical Officer, 1926. Date: 1926

A Ward in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C.. No. B198, Title from item, Hand written on verso: "Similar: LC-B8184-B121", Hand written on verso: "Inscribed in Miller as Carver Hospital, vol. VII, p. 274-275", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Hospitals, Washington (D.C.), 1860-1870, Wheeled chairs, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Washington (D.C.).

On "Empress of Britain" nurses

Collection 558 pH. C. Visser. Dutch ambulance in Sint-Petersburg. Wounded soldiers in a hospital with nursing staff. 1916. Russia (until 1917), Sint-Petersburg

Cholera vaccination in Buczacz. Recorded on 12.V.1916. .

Paris 1900. Patients and nurses in the grounds of the The Hospital de Lariboisiere. The hospital was one of several built following the second cholera pandemic, which had reached Paris in 1832, and which led to a new emphasis on hygienic practices in hospitals. It was built from 1846 to 1853 under architect Pierre Gauthier, with six buildings arranged around a central courtyard, connected by colonnaded walkways.

Man gets tooth from teeth sitting man, universal stereoscopic view company, c. 1880 - c. 1910 photomechanical print. stereograph paper. cardboard collotype toothache

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 1915, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Queen Mary was indefatigable in visits she paid to hospitals and convalescent homes during World War One. Photographed here at Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony at Papworth. Date: During WWI

Nurse with sick in the Mater Dela Rosa hospital in Batavia just after the war. A nurse with former internees from a Jappenkamp in the Mater Dela Rosa hospital in Batavia just after the war. They read a newspaper called "Orange" together.

Red Cross nurses serving food to soldiers in hospital, during Christmas season circa 1917-1930.

Original caption: "Outdoor clinic. Eye treatment. Dr. Gray, contract physician, and field nurse Mabel Cowser in foreground". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Students in the Nurses' Training School at U.S.A. General Hospital No. 3 in Rahway, New Jersey. Photograph taken by S.C. photographer. Image was issued under the symbol 34230 and is part of the NA 94230 series.

Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'A close up of Trinidad Girl Guides and Brownies collecting silk cotton, which is later used as filling for the little pillows used as 'relief pads' in hospitals'. Photograph No.: OKA 199. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1940 Jul 24 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Royal College of Medicine of Iraq. Baghdad. Medical College. A class in session. 1932, Iraq, Baghdad

Evacuations From London Children's Hospital This Morning - Nurses with babies in arms walking past a long line of sandbags as evacuations started from the Great Ormond street children's hospital this morning, September 1. September 14, 1939. (Photo by The Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd.)

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

Sister Mary Rathna (right) trained in Bombay and an Indian Christian, talking to the Matron of the Hospital. September 19, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

A scene at the Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, north west London, on the day of the 1931 census as a nurse makes sure that all the babies are recorded. Date: 26 April 1931

LABORATORIO. Location: ESCUELA DE TRABAJO, SPAIN.

Image of prof.dr. A. Ten Bokkel Huinink, professor of pediatrics at the University of Utrecht, with a baby and a nurse.

Dr. Secord, missionary doctor to Indians, with patient on table

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Celebración de la Natividad en un hospital alemán.

Garnizo pharmacist Bolten with sloth, Andries Augustus Boom, 1908 photograph Garnizo pharmacist Bolten with a young sloth and two men, Paramaribo, October 1908. Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijp family in Suriname and Curaçao. Paramaribo photographic support pharmacist, druggist, apothecary; pharmacy, drugstore, dispensing chemist. other mammals (with NAME) Paramaribo

Doctor Performing Acupuncture and Utilizing Bamboo Suction Tubes while Students Watch, Malu People's Commune, Shanghai, China, 1965

Development of French Sudan Bamaku to Timbuctu. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage Photograph. Anethetist makes report following surgery.

Vaccination session at the Academie de Medicine, Paris. Babies and chlidren are brought in for inoculation with a vaccine taken from a live calf. Date: 1898

Wounded soldiers at Debarkation Hospital #3 in New York City being provided with clean clothes and a comfort kit, which includes toilet articles provided by the Red Cross. Photograph taken by Sergeant Mogarrigle, with the description and number issued mentioned in notes as 496-19 and 9847666 U.S. official.

St. Lo's New Hospital. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Malaria Field Hospital in Cividale, microscope.Blut investigation.

American Nurses in London

St. John's Guild. Milk line. Floating Hospital

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Medical care at Petroleum-Maatschappij Moeara Enim to chort. Moela enim. Sumatra. Healthcare in the liberated areas. Dr. Hoekstra, doctor of the Mil. Medical service, when administering injections. Due to the lack of medical help, malignant infectious diseases have widely distributed among the population of the former Republican areas. October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Interior of nurses' sleeping trailor with its Pullman beds. 1939, Israel, Nejd

09/01/1936. Medical personnel and Ladies of the Red Cross who provided their services at the Almadén blood hospital (Ciudad Real).

Description: Child Welfare Clinic. Location: Gibraltar Date: 1952-1953 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens

African American woman has her toddler examined by a doctor or nurse ca. between 1918 and 1928.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: nurses and patients exercising in the gymnasium. Photograph, c.1890.

Wash stand at Keningau Health Centre. Trainee health officers at Keningau Health Centre wash their hands at a wash stand fashioned from a length of bamboo. Health officers were trained by British medical officers at the centre to introduce new hygiene and sanitation practices to local villages. Keningau, North Borneo (Sabah, Malaysia), circa 1937. Keningau, Sabah (North Borneo), Malaysia, South East Asia, Asia.

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Adults and children in a outpatient clinic while a female nurse of the medical service magen David who administers a veiled woman an injection with two children who watch in the foreground. January 1, 1948. Israel

The doctor reassures the mother after having seen the sick baby in the trailer. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, at FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Merrill, Oregon , Klamath County, Physicians

China, Lanchow, Dr Wu Shao-kau at work in his Chinese industrial Co-operative clinic

Mahatma Gandhi observing leper patient Parchure Shastri being examined by an outside medical doctor at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Man being injected by doctor, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

Moreuil, Somme, Picardie, France Hospital of Moreuil: great wounded, doctor and nurses , 1916 - Regions at war Meuse, Haute -Marne, Oise, Somme - Stéphane Passet - (February -30 July) (French - Moreuil , Somme , Picardie , France Hôpital de Moreuil : grands blessés , docteur et infirmières). Woman, military uniform, exists in high definition, group portrait, care center, workwear, front, medical staff, injured , mutilated, man, Human beings, clothing, HD, health, First World War, France , mower, group of beauty Brussés. Dr Abruatucci, MMMESCOMMET, Louis, Egot, flagollet

US inspectors examining eyes of immigrants at Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, c. 1900. They are screening for signs of trachoma, an infection causing roughening of the surface of the inner eyelid that damaged the cornea (BSLOC_2018_1_18)

Medical distribution at the railway restaurant in Hallsberg.

Hospitals , Soldiers' libraries

African American infant is getting an injection; a nurse and the infant's mother help distract the child.

08/15/1936. The director of the Asalto blood hospital, located on Paseo de la Castellana, Dr. Abanza, accompanied by health personnel.

Three unidentified Civil War nurses associated with the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , FAmbrotype/Tintype photograph filing series , pp/liljwoch. United States Sanitary Commission, People, 1860-1870, Nurses, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Medical aspects, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Women.

The Department of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic. Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. General view of the unit of mobile ophthalmic clinic. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Barcelona, 12/09/1912. Field facilities used by doctors from the municipal charity to administer the smallpox vaccine to the inhabitants of the extreme neighborhoods, in view of the insufficiency of the dispensaries.

Veterinarians at work preparing a bull for castration and inoculation Bangalore Karnataka India Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

Mahatma Gandhi, giving his daily 15 min massage to leper patient Sanskrit scholar Parchure Shastri at Sevagram Ashram, 1940, Shankaran worker in Sushila Nayar s Kasturba Gandhi Hospital near Sevagram Ashram NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Learning Artificial Respiration. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Investigations in school clinics - Kopf determination by the school doctor, Unknown

Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, 1957. Artist: Unknown

Dr. New COLANE

Portrait of female nurse

Base hospital , Hospitals, Sick persons, Health care personnel. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Madrid, 11/4/1918. Doctor Chicote (x) getting vaccinated with the serum against pulmonary complications of the flu prepared by the municipal laboratory.

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