Historical Medical Practices

Black and white photographs showcasing medical practices from the past, including nurse examinations and patient care in vintage settings.

Doctor taking woman's pulse

Doctor and nurse at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho. Doctor visits the trailer-clinic twice a week 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Wilder, Idaho , Canyon County

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sint Nicolaas at 2 Ath. Sinterklaas and black helpers with a patient in a hospital. December 5, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

11/01/1922. Melilla. After the Tizzi-Azza fight. 1. The Wives of the superior commissioner and the commanding general Visiting Captain Iglesias of the Regulars group in the hospital, wounded by three bullets and proposed for the Laureate. (Litran photo).

Photo collection Government information service. Stichting 1940-1945 Herstlingsoord Paleis Het Loo. Doctors treat a boy who stole and arrested a German truck and was abused by the Grüne Polizei. The Germans allowed him to be in ice cold water for 2 days. After release, the patient suffered an extreme form of rheumatism .. 1945. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

He's down in Phillip street, under old Paris House, surrounded by all the legal eagles. About 15 judges, who still have their own hair, as well as their wigs, get Harry to do the honors. He does a lot of KC's too. Harry's been at it over 50 years, and is going to carry on regardless. He's got nothing to worry about. Even if his razor slips, an unlikely event and he gives someone the unkindest cut of all, he should be all right. "Several of my Judges have promised to look after me if that happens." he says "Several of my Judges have promised to look after me if that happens," he says. May 14, 1947.

War Workers Nursery at the Carnegie Institute, Hockley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK, 1941 A young girl named Joan is measured by a nurse at the day nursery attached to the Carnegie Institute of Child Welfare in Birmingham. Every child is weighed and their height measured when they first arrive at the nursery, and a careful check is kept on them throughout their time there. Women war workers leave their children at the day nursery attached to the Institute whilst they go to work in local factories.

A rehabilitation soldier receives therapy with modern electrical equipment (galvano meter) in the military repair resort 'Aardenburg'. The Galvano meter was used to measure the power and reaction of, for example, muscles using small electrical streams.

The care of a small child by the father was rather rare in 1980, as here on 24.06.1980 near Bielefeld, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Dutch Tennis Championships 1968. Marijke Jansen gets an injection of the doctor. August 18, 1968

Doctor talking to a young woman in the hospital room of a sick patient (EV006795_H)

Second World War. Lazarett (probably in Holland). Wounded relatives of the German Wehrmacht in the hospital bed. Next to it a nurse

Murcia, December 1965. Piedad Martínez del Águila, the eldest of ten siblings and who murdered four of them when she was only 12 years old, in the Provincial Hospital of Murcia where they provided a room for the family.

The Queen on an errand of mercy in Ireland : Her Majesty Queen Alexandra visiting the hospice for the dying at Harold's Cross, Dublin. Alexandra was received by the Archbishop of Dublin and by Mother Gertrude Chamberlaine, Mother Superior of the Hospice. Date: 24th July 1903

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea. undated. New Guinea

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Patient in pyama in hospital bed. A magazine on his belly. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

British Nurses & V.A.'s In Australia - War File. March 29, 1945.

Group of People Visiting Patient, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, circa 1900

Historic photograph, doctors operating

Queen Visits Nottinghamshire. Her Majesty watches patient ***** lowered into the Remedial Swimming pool at the hospital. These baths are used for the rehabitation ***** patients. The Queen, who is on a two day visit in Nottinghamshire, visits the Harlow ***** Orthopaedic Hospital, near Hansfield. May 27, 1950. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Elsevier photo collection. Visit Queen Juliana Arnhem. Diaconessenhuis. children's ward, Patientje Sylvia Evers offered doll nurse uniform diaconders. November 23, 1955. Arnhem

AUXILIO SOCIAL. ORGANISMO BENEFICO ESPAÑOL CREADO EN EL AÑO 1937. SFGP / © KORPA.

Anefo photo collection. Schout at night and minister Moorman at Leiden Social Medical Service. November 3, 1949. Leiden, South Holland

Sanatorium Nursing- Everyday Life at Broomfield Sanatorium, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1945 A nurse chats to a young tuberculosis patient in the sunshine of the open air 'ward' of Broomfield Sanatorium, Chelmsford.

A patient being skiographed.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 occupational diseases. undated

Vintage Photograph. Nurse filling out chart.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Patient in pyama in hospital bed. A magazine on his belly. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Precautions against a-flu in Amsterdam. July 5, 1957. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

French clinic for polio victims. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Front desk Free University Amsterdam. Receptions, universities. 30, 1989. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

USA, New York State, New York City, Portrait of female nurse from St Vincent's Hospital

A Recruit Joins the Royal Air Force To assess his fitness for service with the Royal Air Force, Michael Suthers undergoes a preliminary medical examination at Euston Combined Recruits Centre.

Everyday life at the General Hospital in October 1981, Germany, Europe

At Margaret Reid, sunshine is important in building health and strength. Girls and boys sleep in outdoor wards all year, wear V's in summer, essentials in winter. June 02, 1952.

Nurses with newborn babies, 1930s, Several babies are held in blankets by nurses, Historical photo

Anefo photo collection. Camp amsvord, internment camp for female collaborators. Her interverted woman is cut and the neck shaved to combat head lice. July 1945. Amersfoort

Man lying in bed holding his throat in pain (EV005926_H)

Anefo photo collection. Queen Sirikit visits the hospital ship of the Red Cross to the Parkkade in Rotterdam; Queen Sirikit in conversation with patients. October 25, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Return injured from the Sirius. Kermer Williams on a stretcher. June 20, 1961

An image of a 1909 operating theatre where precautions have been taken to create a germ free environment. Date: 1909

Nurse taking patients temperature (EV003943_H)

One Shooting Victim says Goodbye to another - Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich), left, one of five congressmen wounded by Puerto Rican Fanatics March 1, says goodbye to Rep. Kenneth Roberts (D-Alan), another of the shooting victims, just before Bentley was discharged from Casualty Hospital today. Mrs. Roberts is at center. Roberts, although less seriously wounded than Bentley, has been "quite uncomfortable" because of a nerve injury and must remain at the hospital, his doctor said. He is the only one of the five still hospitalized. March 28, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Mother applying a bandage on her son's forehead

Photograph of Coast Guardsmen Standing Around the Beds of Two Boys with Rare Blood Disease. Suffering from an unusual hereditary blood disease, Jack (left) and Richard Justice, sons of Mrs. Etta Justice, 515 Warren street, have received blood transfusions from the Coast Guardsmen standing around their beds. An older brother of the boys, who was inducted into the Navy, recently died of the disease. The Coast Guardsmen who gave their blood are (left to right) J. B. Anderson, Sea 2c; Nathan Shapiro, Sp 1c; L. L. Angel, Sp 1c; J. E. Jennings, Sp 2c; G. R. Hill, Sp 1c; J. E. Chrisman, PhM1c. Attending the goys boys is Sister Mary Cleophane. Specialist First Class Ben Meyer, who also gave blood, is not in the picture.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Patient in the Princess Juliana Mission Hospital. October 1955. Cable station, Suriname

***** lying on a ***** with his broken spine in plaster of Paris, went 800 miles there and back by ambulance recently from Bridgend (Wales) to Bodmin (Cornwall) to consult a faith healer. Morris, here seen with his nurse, had 300 fights and has been bedridden in hospital three years after a mine accident. August 10, 1947.

Boxer Boon Is Hyp Noticed To Win - Eric Boon, the boxer, is paying four or five visits to a Canadian doctor before his next fight, to get rid of a slight inferiority complex which, his manager says, "appears whenever he is fighting."The doctor hypnotizes Boon gently and easily and while he is "under" he is told several times "You are going to win".During Boon's trainee the doctor can make him hold his body so rigid that his manager, Benny Huntman, cannot bond his arms. December 02, 1947.

06/01/1916. At the Princess hospital. The Judge, Mr. Robles (1), Carrying out a recognition procedure between the injured clerk in the store attacked by the "Apaches", Isidoro Negrete (2) and the Apache Nicknamed "the Argentine" (4), with the assistance of the agent Interpreter, Mr. Blasco (3).

A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. A mother cradles her newborn baby in bed, shortly after giving birth. The mother is wearing her civilian respirator, whilst the baby is encased in a baby gas helmet, which buckles up around the baby's bottom. The mother is demonstrating how the bellows on her baby's gas mask are pumped to supply the baby with air.

ENT physician with violin, East Germany, around 1974

Anefo photo collection. Princess Beatrix opens Dijkzigt. Princess at nurse (in bank). September 17, 1961

Woman using machine to style teenage girls hair (EV004049_H)

Vintage photograph. A Nurse, herself an amputee, greeting a patient in the corridor of the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

Elsevier photo collection. Press conference Utrecht former military hospital selection methods Dutch armed forces. soldiers provided map declaration blood type one. data card, blood bled body. October 31, 1950. Utrecht (city)

1950S Girl Wearing Nurse'S Uniform Putting Bandages On A Doll While A Puppy Dog In A Basket Behind Her Watches

1950S Doctor Examining Mouth Of Little Girl With Tongue Depressor While Nurse Is Looking On

Anefo photo collection. Tenth ambulance commissioned at Utrecht Traffic road to Den Bosch, crew members from ambulance helping victim in ambulance. January 26, 1973. Den Bosch, Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Doctor measures blood pressure at a man. 12 August 1970

Marblehead, Children's Island, group , Children, Bodies of water, Nurses, Sanatoriums. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Vintage Photograph. Doctor examining baby while mother looks on.

Female pediatrician checking temperature of a boy

NURSED BACK TO HEALTH (EV001543_H)

Marshall Plan Streptomycin Saves French Baby. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

State Railways, SJ. Sleeping car bed. Statist, Mrs. Hoffman

Rescue of Seaman Smith. This image depicts a description of the transfer of Seaman John Smith to a hospital by nurses Arlene DeAurie and Janet DeMeo and Coast Guard corpsmen Elmer Steubs and Carl Wathne.

Doctor examining ear of girl

British Nurses & V.A.'s In Australia - War File. March 19, 1945.

Surgery

A photograph showing well-known French surgeon, Professor Bergonie applying an electro-magnet to extract a shell splinter from a soldier during an operation at Grand-Lebrun hospital in Bordeaux. Date: April 24th 1915

The struggles of a single mom making minimum wage.

Installation of Electrolux refrigerator, upper part open, in Norrköping's laser. A nurse in the picture.

Woman receiving hair treatment

School Clinic - interior view - student examination room, Theo Bauer , photographer

W. C. Fields, The Dentist, 1932

Murder Exhibit:For the first time in Crime - Detection history Police will use an Exhibit at this year's Royal Show in an attempt to get Evidence to solve a Murder.Photographers of the murder Victim - Shirley Butler, 21, of Eureka St., Waverton - together with other evidence collected by detectives, will be on display.Shirley Butler was chocked and Battered to death last Christmas morning. Her body was found on a Vacant allotment 75 yd from her home.Pictured here is Scientific Bureau Detective J.E. White dressing a dummy in the Clothes Shirley Butler wore when she was murdered. March 22, 1953.

Vintage Photograph. Doctor examining boy.

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Toyoko Ioki, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.

Close-up of a female nurse wearing surgical gloves

Vintage Photograph. Woman in nurses uniform smiling and holding thermometer

Examining baby at clinic of Negro hospital. Chicago, Illinois 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Chicago, Illinois , Cook County

Left to right, Diana Shaw, a radiation therapy technologist; MAJ. (Dr.) Roberto Putzeys, CHIEF of Radiation Therapy Services; and Rebecca Carreon, also a radiation therapy technologist, discuss the operation of the new Linear Accelerator machine used for the treatment of cancer at Brooke Army Medical Center. Base: Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo 14 backup crewmen, left to right, Eugene A. Cernan, Joe H. Engle and Ronald E. Evans speak with nurse Dee OHara prior to undergoing flight physicals today at the Kennedy Space Center.

Beautician at work

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection National Kitchens. The store keeper and the supervisor arranging the menu.

Former hostage Gary Lee receives a hair cut in the barber shop. The 52 hostages are spending a few days in the hospital after their release from Iran prior to their departure to the United States. Base: Wiesbaden Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Anefo photo collection. Four-day in Nijmegen, nurses help the runners blister me. July 28, 1964. Nijmegen

Mature man in bed pouring medicine into a spoon

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea. The doctor G. Wijsmuller on the internal hall with sister M. Hut. This doctor is concerned with the TB control. undated. New Guinea

Private G. Moraito, of Rochester, New York, USA, in South African Hut Hospital, Richmond Park, London, England, UK, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918

LT. Elaine R. Winegard (right), a dentist aboard the training aircraft carrier USS LEXINGTON (AVT-16), treats a patient with assistance from a dental technician. Country: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Children's broadcast to England. World War II, Public Health. August 1945

1940s YOUNG WOMAN TEENAGER SICK IN BED HAND ON HEAD AND STOMACH

A staff member simulates the role of patient as medical personnel take part in a training session aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20), underway in the Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Unknown

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