Historical Medical Practices

Vintage photos showing healthcare practices from various decades, including nursing care and dentist appointments, depicted in black and white.

Male doctor reading a thermometer

Vintage Photograph. Two nurses looking at each other laughing.

Vintage Photograph. Young woman sneezing into tissue.

Slimming down (EV008028_H)

1940s 1950s WOMAN HOLDING HER HEAD WITH BOTH HANDS HEADACHE PAIN DEPRESSION

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 occupational diseases. undated

Injured American Soldier receiving Cigarette from American Red Cross Worker at Base Hospital 41, St. Denis, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918

Girls playing dentist

Elsevier photo collection. Tijjdens extraordinary meeting c.h.u. Merwedehal Utrecht, wife chairman C.H.u., Tilanus, commissioned row speakers time. close watch electrical switch minutes via red lamp speaker. December 12, 1967. Utrecht (city)

Nurse does her rounds (EV007926_H)

Vintage Photograph. A mother bandaging her daughter's finger.

1930S Smiling Blond Nurse With Surprised Expression Talking On Telephone Holding Up Two Fingers

Vintage Photograph. Young boy taking medicine *Hand of mother shows.

Vintage photograph. Portrait of woman in nurse uniform looking off camera

Woman applying make-up

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (travel during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Nurse sitting on the doctor's lap

Home foot care (OV2019_313)

1950s 1960s TRIPTYCH MULTIPLE EXPOSURE WOMAN WITH A HEADACHE TAKING MEDICINE AND SMILING WITH EXPRESSION OF RELIEF FROM PAIN

OLIVER HARDY and STAN LAUREL in COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932), directed by JAMES PARROTT.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Red Cross in Batavia. Princess Margriet Hospital in Batavia. Blood transfusion service. February 9, 1949. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Vintage Photograph. Dentist analyzes dental molds he holds one up to look at it.

At the Psychologist. A woman is lying on a couch in a psychologist, visibly hypnotized. Sweden 1954. ref 2776

James R. Wilson, HM-2, US Navy (L) prepareds an unidentified individual for an x-ray during a pre-induction physical at the Main Induction Station, Denver, CO. 3 May 1965.

Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Farm Security Administration, April 1943

The mask and hand Willie made from plaster of Paris and bread to cover his absence in an escape plot from The easter state penitentiary in Pennsylvania Sutton hoped to leave them in his cell cot while he escaped. He used his own hair clippings for the dummy's hair and eyebrows. May 3, 1953.

Female nurse using telephone

1960s MOTHER AND FATHER DIAPERING TWO TWIN BABIES CLOTH DIAPERS ON CHANGING TABLE

GRIT YOUR TEETH (EV001118_H)

1950s MAN DOCTOR EXAMINING MOUTH OF LITTLE GIRL CHILD WITH WOOD TONGUE DEPRESSOR WHILE WOMAN NURSE IS LOOKING ON

Sitting Beneath Hairdryer

Helena Rubenstein Fifth Avenue Salon. Camera-like machine is Helena Rubenstein's newly perfected Derma Lens for scientific analysis of analysis of complexion. It examines for imperfections and to determine correct treatments of the skin. It also reveals the true flesh tone of the skin, thus providing the basis for the selection of cosmetics that blend perfectly into the individual complexion. June 8, 1934.

Female nurse reading a thermometer

District Nurse Of Bloomsbury -- First call in the morning is in Soho, where 80-year-old Mrs. Betty Jacobs lives above a Jewish restaurant in D'Arbley Street, Mrs. Jacobs, a diabetic, has to hare an injection of insulin before she can have her breakfast. Sister prepares another for her to give herself in thee vening. September 11, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

A woman's breast being compressed to get the optimum mammographic image. Photo by Bill Branson.

Vintage Photograph. A doctor checking his patient's heartbeat in office.

A water sample is taken from a public fountain by a Directorate of Occupational Health and Preventive Medicine (DOH/PM) technician. DOH/PM, which is based at the hospital, provides health services for the 75 commands in the Rhode Island/southeastern Massachusetts area. Base: Newport Naval Hospital State: Rhode Island (RI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Female nurse holding a telephone receiver

Female nurse day dreaming

United States: c. 1937 A woman sterilizing laboratory bottles.

Folding Gauze Sponges in the American Red Cross Workrooms for making Surgical Dressings, Rue St. Didier, Paris, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, July 1918

UPSET STOMACH (EV001535_H)

A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.

1950S Two Children Playing Doctor Nurse

Night school nursing nuns , Schools, Nursing, Nuns. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Female nurse in an operating room with a surgeon standing behind her

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0754. 1956

Vintage Photograph. A portrait of a nurse with heavy eyeliner pointing up.

Vintage Photograph. Medical professionals collaborating on patient care strategy.

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Vintage Photograph. A customer talking with pharmacist about prescription.

1940s WOMAN HAND TO NECK PAINFUL SORE THROAT

Cornelius Packard Rhoades, M.d. Director, Sloan-kettering Institute, Artist Unknown

Nurse and a doctor romancing in a hospital

Vintage Photograph. Woman wearing nurse uniform smiling holding up three fingers on right hand, other hand resting on cheek

Vintage Photograph. Dentist makes a phone call while holding a patients x-ray.

Growing waistline (EV007690_H)

1980S Nurse White Uniform Cap Clip Board Pencil Hospital Corridor Nurses Medical

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Female nurse taking the pulse of a male patient

TRANSFUSION SANGUINEA.

Laboratory Worker Keeping Records Connected with Processing of Blood Plasma

Doctor standing in a hospital with a female surgeon

Liz Johnson, a microbiologist, conducts bacteria tests on throat and wound cultures at the Fort Polk Hospital laboratory. Base: Fort Polk State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Close-up of a young woman suffering from a headache

Vintage photograph. Man with dark hair wearing white medical smock in thought holding hand up to chin

ORAL HYGIENE (EV001032_H)

Vintage photograph. Young blonde woman wearing white nurse uniform and cap looking worried

Hearing Aid

Vintage Photograph. Dentist holds x-ray smiling while talking on the phone.

Doctor with middle-aged woman taking her blood pressure.

1960s DENTIST WEARING WHITE JACKET STANDING BY CHAIR TREATMENT ROOM WITH DENTAL DRILL SINK LOOKING AT CAMERA SERIOUS EXPRESSION

1960S Smiling Young Woman Standing On Weight Reducing Vibrating Exercise Machine Looking At Camera

Female nurse day dreaming

Vintage Photograph. A portrait of a nurse smiling.

Vintage Photograph. A portrait of a nurse with heavy eyeliner, smiling.

Nurse showing newborn to father (EV007568_H)

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