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.
Masked surgeons perform an operation while a nurse administers ether to anesthetize patient. Ca. 1920.
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01/05/1936. Ladies Nurses, Sisters of Charity and Doctors of the Spanish Red Cross, who have been Decorated by the Government, for their Humanitarian Services during the October Revolution of 1934 in Asturias.
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U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants at Ellis Island, in New York Harbor. A diagnosis of trachoma would automatically be grounds for refusing admission to the United States.
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Composition of 14 photos and medical instruments.
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The political barber , Barbershops, Barbers
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Kampong Dojo Lama, village Sentanimer, January practical scientific experiment malaria control service Guinea started except data regarding length weight children spleen research, blood tests. fairly insensitive earllass, barrel given, Enkle blood drops cut glass microscopic research laboratory Hollandia, sometimes reason miserable. undated. Dojo Lama, Guinea
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Patients Outside Tent Of Tuberculosis Camp, Illinois
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Vicence, Italy Group of doctors at Hospital 213 () , 1918 - Italy - Fernand Cuville - (March -August) (French - Vicence , Italie Groupe de Médecins de l' hôpital 213 ( )). Woman, military uniform, group portrait, care center, work clothing, rear, medical staff, hairstyle , headgear, red cross, man, army, Human beings, clothing, health, First World War, society, Italy, Vicenza, group of doctors at Vicenza Hospital 213
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Post Wheeler, U.S. Doctors in Tokyo at U.S. Embassy
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Patients with nurses in the garden, 1930s, Germany, Europe
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Description: Hong Kong under the microscope. A villager being examined by the flying doctor. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969
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Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña presided over the inauguration of the Provincial Hospital of La Misericordia on the afternoon of January 20, 1933.
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Rivera de Guadarrama, August 1936. A nurse treating a wounded man.
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Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: nursing staff. Photograph, c. 1905.
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Dentist and Children. 1949 - 1971. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Minneapolis Area Office. (1949 - 9/1999). Photographs
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Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. The help of the administrative post at Wamena (Baliem) is unfortunately, but all too often called for the sick if healing is practically no longer possible. The Papua hospitalizer observes a hopeless case. September 1958. New Guinea
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Children standing in line to see the dentist.
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Mahatma Gandhi, nursing leper patient Parchure Shastri at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox
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Washington, District of Columbia (vicinity). Group of patients in front of Ward B, Harewood Hospital | Library of Congress
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Cross in Medan. Arnhemia: the population - forced by the TNI for the liberation of the town forced and finally liberated by Dutch troops - returned to their place of residence in a more than miserable situation. Here they were received by the Dutch Red Cross and received shelter, clothing, food and especially urgently necessary medical care. Skillful doctors and nurses help hundreds of patients: Frambosia, malaria, edema, berrie-berrie .. October 8, 1947. Arnhemia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dr. De Vries looking patient. undated. Guinea
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Poll photo collection. A corridor in the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikwa with patients and visitors. January 1, 1960. Israel, Petach Tikwah
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Hare-Lip Baby After Operation. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Fort Totten Agency. 1903-1947. Photographs
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Portrait of nanou in nurse uniform of the Red Cross. .
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An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
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Operation in a field hospital 29.7.18. .
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Anefo photo collection. Opening Dutch Reformed Diakonessen Hospital Meppel. November 12, 1956
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06/30/1923. Munich. In the clinical institute of the University. Dr. Lozano (1). Professor of the University of Zaragoza with his colleague Professor Dr. Saurbruch (2) of Universal fame, after one of the Conferences Given by the First.
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Veterinarians at work preparing a bull for castration and inoculation Bangalore Karnataka India Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox
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Cooks - Am'n Red + Cross Hospital, Mossley Hill, Liverpool
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A Medical Practitioner at Work. Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston, photographer (English, 1858 - 1927) 1890s A "medicine man" wearing ritual body paint standing over a patient who is lying on a mat, his head in a relative's lap. Several thatched huts are behind them. (Verso) Primary inscription is upside down, in ink: "A medical practitioner at work/ The patient is laying/ with his head on a relative's lap. The medicine/ is in the water bucks horn which is placed over/ the diseased part of the body./ These men get most excited as they perform their/ evolutions with arms and legs and maybe the/ mysterious passes over the patient who is exposed/ to the sun on a mat made out of reeds./ A small fee is paid. Kill or cure./ At the back, a mat rolled up is on a hut. This signifies/ some one died there and the hut is allowed to go to ruin." center, in pencil in a different hand: "Copyright/ Harry Johnson" sic"; center, in pencil, cropping lines; upper left, in pencil: "2699";
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Annual reunion of neurologists at the Salpêtrière hospital, 1926. Photograph, 1926.
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Chinese doctor and drugstore
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An extemporized operating room in the Japanese camp , Health care facilities, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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11/01/1914. Charity and War. Ladies and Gentlemen Registered as Red Cross Nurses in Berlin. Photo: R. Sennecke / R. Parrondo.
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Ambulance provisvere Amputation. Unknown maker, French
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On Medical Board. From the album: Skerman family album, 1916, Smoa, maker unknown.
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Sheila Malcolm Mr. Merkelijn indicate usefulness importance nutrition. October 1957. Guinea
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An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, being helped to sit up on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
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The hospital and stores on the beach. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.
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The entrance to Hospital Reinando S.M. Alfonso XIII at Melilla, Morocco. The second Rif War was a conflict in 1909 in Morocco around Melilla. The fighting involved local Rifains and the Spanish Army, who had tried (unsuccessfully) to gain control over the mining area close to Melilla. This hospital appears to be caring for Spanish soldiers injured during the campaign. Date: 1909
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First Aid for Minor Injury. 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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Psychologists and psychiatrists. Photograph.
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A doctor administers a typhus vaccine to a boy, France, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 71, no 3671, July 5, 1913.
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Blood tests at a gold mine golden gold from the young South. 1947. De Jong Zuid, Suriname
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Portrait of a nurse and infant, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.
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Schoolgirl Into Nurse- Medical Training in Britain, 1942 Students on a pre-nursing training course, which they are taking as part of their last year at elementary school stand at the side of a swimming pool and watch treatment for congenital dislocation of the hip, which is underway in the water. A nurse is in the water with a patient. According to the original caption 'Floating rafts are used. The buoyancy of the water makes muscle exercise easier'.
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Möhippa, Norberg's foot clinic. Photo 1943. Möhippa, Norbergs fotklinik. Foto 1943.
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Ambroise Pare, the great 16th century surgeon, operating on a soldier wounded in battle. Pare developed surgical techniques and invented instruments for battlefield operations, and is considered a great medical innovator. Ca. 1550.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Cross series Borneo. Medical care of Dajaks. June 1948. Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies
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Description: Sick bay Location: East Africa africa
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Experience. Healing and care institution
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Process position, dentist at work. .
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05/31/1922. Aristocratic Valencian Ladies who Form the team of Red Cross Nurses, who with their Professor, Dr. Cortés, Assisted the Repatriated Wounded of Melilla.
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First state convention, of the Women's Auxiliary of the Keeley League, Dwight, Illinois, June 27-28, 1893. The Keeley Institute was founded in 1879 by Leslie Keeley to treat alcoholics with injections of proprietary components, sometimes called the 'gold treatment'. The shots often made the patient quite sick, during which he was also allowed abundant alcohol, perhaps offering a combination of placebo and aversion therapy. Keeley claimed 'Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it' (BSLOC_2020_2_127)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC company Wingfoot, Rantau Prapat. The rubber company Wingfoot (North Sumatra) had an excellent hospital for the war. Thirty-severe malnourished patients were found in the occupation of this company. 24 December 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Maryland, nurses & employees group ca. between 1918 and 1928.
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corea, crocerossina dell'ospedale italiano a yong-dong-po, 1955
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España. Publicidad del asilo-hospital de San Juan de Dios. Barcelona, año 1942.
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Badow's outpatient clinic. An outpatient clinic at the sugar company. Photo in the photo album offered to A. van der Eyk on behalf of the chefs and the staff of the Amsterdam trade association (HvA) in Surabaja at his departure from Java in April 1931.
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"US military officials and guests from the World Relief Commission (WRC) stand at the entrance of Hoa Khanh Children's Hospital, located at Force Logistics Command, eight miles northwest of Da Nang, Vietnam. The photo marks the joint sponsorship of the hospital by WRC and FLG. Defense Department photo (Marine Corps) ld A193063 127."
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Group portrait of women in nurses' uniforms , Nurses. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Dr. Walter Wearn - Sydney Dental Surgeon. July 16, 1951.
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Nurses' Passion, A, Artist Unknown
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Amputation was frequently used to punish workers in the Congo Free State; controlled by Leopold II of Belgium 1900