Historical Medical Practices

Images from historical medical settings, showcasing hospitals, doctors, and patient care from the early to mid-20th century.

Charles H. Mayo (1865-1939), at center right in surgical gown, cap, and mask, in an operating amphitheatre assisted by four nurses and observed by others in the gallery. Charles Horace Mayo developed techniques in neurosurgery. Ca. 1913.

Original caption: "Eye examinations at San Manuel Resn. (Dr. Evans and Nurse Mabel Cowser)". 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

Choleraspital in Vojcica. .

Hospital of a field hospital, Isonzofront. .

Charles H. Mayo (1865-1939), at center right in surgical gown, cap, and mask, in an operating amphitheatre assisted by four nurses and observed by others in the gallery. Charles Horace Mayo developed techniques in neurosurgery. Ca. 1913.

Vaccination of the team. .

Dental Office at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 11 during World War I, St. Nazaire, France, 1914-1918

Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona: Dr. Esquerdo's clinic. Photograph, ca.1900.

Incorrecting with male patients and staff in a hospital in the Dutch East Indies, Anonymous, c. 1920 - c. 1930 photograph Part of photo album of a hospital in the Dutch East Indies. photographic support hospital. nursing, tending the sick. patient, sick person. historical persons not known by name. ward; room (in hospital). sick-bed Dutch East Indies, The

In a horse hospital of the Reichswehr - reportage. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Anefo photo collection. Ventling in Rotterdam born; Five incubatuses in Sophia Hospital. January 19, 1976. Rotterdam, South Holland

Mantriverpleger and patients in the outpatient clinic of sugar factory Budoeran in Sidoarjo on Java, c. 1925 - c. 1930 photograph. aerial photograph Part of photo album with recordings of four sugar factories on Java. Sidoarjo cardboard. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print sugar. plantation. plants and herbs: sugarcane. hospital. patient, sick person. physician, doctor Dutch East Indies, The. Sidoarjo

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dental care in Krandji. Dental care in the Dutch East Indies. The dentist on an outpost. The area in Krandji is a bit more primitive but the treatment is no less. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Hospital kitchen. Recorded on May 5, 1916. Nizniow. .

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dental care in Krandji. Dental care in the Dutch East Indies. The dentist on an outpost. The area in Krandji is a bit more primitive but the treatment is no less. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Description: Barbados. 'The Waiting Room of the Blackrock Baby Welfare Clinic'. Photograph No D 77077 Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1955 Mar barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit by Professor Romme to Medan. Dr. C.P.M. Romme (in light shirt) when visiting military hospital in Medan. February 1947. Indonesia, Medan, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Composition of 10 photos and medical instruments.

Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. The hospital wash-house, close-up. 1934, Israel, Tiberias

Technician prepares to x-ray the arm of a Native American patient1950

In a horse hospital of the Reichswehr - reportage. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Description: The Almakhzan Hospital in Abyan, Western Aden Protectorate has a section for the training of Health Assistants to take charge of Health Units in various parts of the Western Aden Protectorate. Location: Aden, Yemen Date: 1950-1959

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

Bath. Recorded on May 12, 1916. Buczacz. .

Group of Indian people under a shelter, presumably patients and staff from a hospital in the Dutch East Indies. Part of photo album from a hospital in the Dutch East Indies.

Interior of a hospital wagon from the train to Lourdes.

Medical checkpoint for vaccinations and other things in the dessas near Malang, 1900 - 1935 photograph. stereograph Malang (possibly) paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print

Injured And Homeless Seek Aid in Wake Of Quake -- As a doctor aids an injured woman, other survivors of the earthquake that virtually destroyed Jucupa, El Salvador arrive at a temporary shelter carrying what few belongings they were able to salvage from their wrecked homes. The government set up shelters in schools and public buildings to care for the injured and homeless victims of the series of earthquakes that hit town in the southeastern part of the country.Quake Victims . Survivors of the recent earthquake which virtually destroyed Jucupa, in Salvador, receiving treatment at a first aid post. Uninjured survivors can be seen arriving with salvaged belongings. May 08, 1951. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Group portrait of Dutch patients from the Red Cross hospital in Herisau, Switzerland, who stayed together with Isabel Wachenheimer in this hospital, Anonymous, 1945 photograph Group portrait of Dutch patients from the Red Cross hospital in Herisau, Switzerland. Switzerland photographic support gelatin silver print

Laboratory bacteriologists.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Mantri Nurse. undated. Guinea

Epidemiespital in Dellach.Swam chamber. .

Hadassah, University on Scopus. 1934, Jerusalem, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Inoculating patients against Rabies at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, c1910. Before modern techniques were developed patients were subjected to painful abdominal injections.

Nursing Services Club. Group of nurses with Miss Saunders 1940, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Typhoid inocculations in the early 1900s ca. 1909.

Original caption: "San Manuel. Contract Physician J.H. Evans and Field Nurse Mabel Cowser.". 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

Dr.C.MacLean,Ajlun.GileadMissionHospital.Dr.Dorey'sstudy.1940,Jordan, ʻAjlūn

They Give Their Blood to Shipmates. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman as he gives blood for a transfusion to his wounded shipmate.

Portrait of Dr. C.D. Cramer, medical director of the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht between 1908 and 1937.

101 babies were born at Crown St Hospital during the week ended Tuesday - here is a group showing ***** of the newcomer. February 12, 1941.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Malaria discharge service. undated. Guinea

A Nazi nurse with ìGerman super raceî children, whom Nazi scientists tried to lighten their hair and eyes to a more Aryan appearance

German patients, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 1916, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Outpatient treatment foot dots. undated. Guinea

Timal healing depot.

Dentist with Patients. Original caption: Miscellaneous (dentist with patients).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Military hospital to Semarang. Patients games a game of dams. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Moreuil, Somme, Picardie, Inner France of kitchens (Evacuation Hospital) , 1916 - Regions at war Meuse, Haute -Marne, Oise, Somme - Stéphane Passet - (February -30 July) (French - Moreuil , Somme , Picardie , France Intérieur des cuisines ( hôpital d' évacuation )). Rear-fronst, woman, food, interior view, hospital, care center, work clothing, domestic object, domestic life, cuisine, medical staff, man, First World War, Human Starries, Daily Life, Habitat , Architecture, Health, clothing, France, Moreuil, kitchens interior (evacuation hospital)

Patients, European drug DJAWA and assistant posing for a hospital to Sun Geiliat; Soengeiliat. Hospital with Europeesche Medicine, Dr. Djawa, Babier and nursing. Part of photo album about the tin reclamation on Bangka.

Folding and ironing linen collars, Troy, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Troy (N.Y.)

MGH -- Dr. Walter J. Dodd (right) hospital photographer the introduced x-ray to MGH in 1896 within weeks of Röntgen announcement of his discovery. Photo probably taken around 1900.

Matron Trainees. 1936 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. A sick baby is treated by a soldier. 1946. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

In Jerusalem Municipal Hospital. 1898, Israel

Nurse with sick in the Mater Dela Rosa Hospital in Batavia Shortly after the war, Anefo, 1945 - 1946 photograph A nurse with former internees from a Japanese camp in the Mater Dela Rosa hospital in Batavia just after the war. Together they read a newspaper called "Oranje". BataviaIndonesia photographic support Batavia

Dental studio in the field, DivisionSlazarettanstalt 25.

Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Royal College of Medicine of Iraq. Baghdad. Medical College. The pathology room. 1932, Iraq, Baghdad

Anefo photo collection. Mater DELA ROSA Hospitia in Batavia. Patients. January 5, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Maria Luggau, Hospital Nr..1. .

Danaradja leprosy colony: Patients, Anonymous, 1922 photograph Album magazine with three photos of residents of Leprozen colony Danaradja: Left and top right Patients sitting in front of a building, under a patient shows stains on his back. Part of photo album Leprozen colony Danaradja and family recordings. East cardboard. photographic support leprosy. patient, sick person East

Japanese nurses carrying a patient on a stretcher.

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

Sorting the patients in the hospital in Pergine Trentino; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 11.

'Did you ring for hot water, sir' , Bathing

Patients posing for a hospital in Pangkalpinang, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of photo album about the Tinwinning on Bangka. Pangkalpinang photographic support gelatin silver print minerals and metals: tin. mining. hospital. patient, sick person Pangkalpinang

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse, in a ward of the hospital at Scutari (across the Bosporus from Istanbul) during the Crimean War. Ward shows the results of her sanitation measures that eliminated overcrowding, and allowed in light and fresh air.

Poll photo collection. Hadassah University Medical Center. Lobby with banks and the information desk. January 1, 1960. Israel

Hospital: "PERSEN" disk space in the disinfection institution. .

08/24/1918. The Queen and the Red Cross. HM Queen Victoria Presiding over the course for Ladies Nurses of the Red Cross of Santander at the San José asylum.

Poll photo collection. Middle East: Jordan. Nurses for a hospital. January 1, 1953. Gaza, Jordan

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Group of Arabs from countryside mixing with doctors & nurses, closer. 1939, Israel, Nejd

School clinic - interior view - measuring and weighing room, Josef Perscheid -, photographer

British ophthalmic hospital, Jerusalem, 1918 Israel

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Villagers & Bedouins gathered for eye treatment. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. ace trolle, thin strips used, bandage mesh. October 1960. Guinea, Waigeo

Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 ñ 4 September 1965) was a Germanóand later Frenchótheologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa

Discharged hospital patients after bubonic plague outbreak, being given relief money, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

Nursing Services Club. Group of nurses with Miss Saunders 1940, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

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

Orthopädisches Spital in Sisli .

Cholm: Flecktyphus-Spital. .

Description: Barbados. 'A baby being weighed at the Blackrock Baby Welfare Clinic'. Photograph No D 77082 Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1955 Mar barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Malaria in Sierra Leone.

Bering Sea Patrol - Open Wide. Carried on her mother's back, this tiny resident of the Eskimo Village of Shaktolik Shaktoolik, in the Norton Sound area of Alaska, is not going to let Dr. Willis C. Taylor look at her teeth without a little coaxing. Dr. Taylor, U.S. Public Health Service dental surgeon, is a native of St. Paul, Minn. Previous to his current assignment aboard the Coast Guard Cutter NORTHWIND on the Bering Sea Patrol, he was stationed at Norfolk, Va. Virginia. Doctors and dentists of the USPHS travel with the NORTHWIND on the annual patrol to facilitate the Coast Guard task of bringing dentals and medical attention to natives and Government personnel at far northern outposts.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Outpatient clinic? Nurse and patients. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Red Cross in Batavia. Pasar Tjikini. Vaccination. February 9, 1949. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

10/09/1913. In the French hospital in Madrid. The commercial delegation of Paris on its visit to the hospital of Saint Louis of the French Verified, yesterday Tomorrow. Photo: wheel.

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

Interior view of a childrens' health clinic; an African American child is having his throat examined.

Location: Accra woman, uniform, apron, cap, nurse, stethescope, africa

Patients & nurses "Sea Breeze Jr."

FAO Aids Rinderpest Control In EthiopiaThere was a time when rinderpest killed a million head of Ethiopian cattle yearly. Now FAO helps Ethiopia in the fight against the disease and the number of sick animals has been greatly reduced. Four FAO veterinarians are supervising an expanding field program of livestock inoculation.Here, in a laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, two Ethiopian veterinary assistants prepare anti-rinderpast vaccines. January 1, 1953. (Photo by U. Naitons).

Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona: a ward for male patients, with tiles on the wall depicting the stations of the cross. Photograph.

Orthopädisches Spital in Sisli .

Surgical department.

Dr.C.MacLean,Ajlun.GileadMissionHospital.Group.Staffinfrontofentrancetowomen'sward.1940,Jordan, ʻAjlūn

Vintage Photograph. Dr. Andrew Raynal at public health clinic in Liberia. Frame 3

Mahatma Gandhi during illness at Sassoon Hospital, Poona, Maharashtra, India, Asia, March 1924 India Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox -

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