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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

Prime Minister Leaves Hospital.The Prime Minister leaving hospital today (Fri.) where he has been undergoing treatment for eczema of the feet, He is wearing a pair of hospital slippers, as he is seen off by one of the hospital staff, on his way to Downing Street.The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon.C.R. Attlee, left St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, this morning (Fri.) to preside over a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street. September 10, 1948. (Photo by Reuter Photo).

Vintage Photograph. A boy in bed having his temperature taken.

The 1963 General Electric Porta-cart air conditioner (EV001916_H)

Australian bantamweight boxing champion Elley Bennett's hands are bandaged by his manager "Snowy" Hill prior to a workout yesterday. Bennett fights American Negro Vie Eisen at the Stadium on Monday night. May 27, 1950.

George Riddoch with patient

Anefo photo collection. 100 years Diakonesseninrichting Bronovo. Queen Juliana is in Pulchri Studio in The Hague where an overview of 100 years of nursing can be seen. February 4, 1965. The Hague, South Holland

Medical Exam. Original Title: 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

Vintage Photograph. Hsband brings flowers on visit to invalid wife in hospital bed.

CMF rookies watch company hygiene officer sister Margaret Grahame demonstrate a tourniquet on Pte. Louise Alexander during a lecture on the first aid treatment for snake and insect bites. Sister Margaret Graham, Pte. Louise Alexander. May 26, 1954.

Son Talking To His Mother In Hospital Bed (AlzheimerS Patient)

Anefo photo collection. Patients Hospital Amsterdam Noord Moving to New Hospital Above T IJ. 24 June 1987. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo). Hospital with a member of the medical staff at a hospital of the Angolan liberation movement Fnla north of Kinshasa. October 24, 1973. Congo, Zaire

1950s TWO AMBULANCE DRIVERS EMTS DOCTORS AT REAR OF AMBULANCE AT HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM ENTRANCE

1960S Woman Counter Pharmacy Talk Talking Pharmacist Buying Drugs Product Customer Sales Service Retro Drug Store

Legless Girl Can Walk Again - A legless, little Greek girl today emulated her hero famous airman, Douglas Bader, by walking erect on artificial limbs and wearing shoes and socks for the first time. Joy ran through the Royal Children's Hospital and the Yooralla Hospital School when 10 - year - old Desma Mihos walked erect at last. Nurses praise her amazing courage and her will to be another Bader. Desma Mihos, who lives in Nicholson Street. East Brunswick, was burnt from the mid-thigh to the feet at the age of six' months, in Greece. November 05, 1955.

Working under a British doctor, an orderly from Kenya tending to a wounded Ethiopian (Abyssinian) at Harrar. Date: 1936

Shirley, a pet rabbit, is rocked to sleep at a London nursery school by a little "nurse" in a Red Cross uniform. September 16, 1953. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Angel at a child's bedside, 1920s, An angel watches over a sleeping child in a bed, Historical photo

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. A child gets in an outpatient clinic of a feminine nurse of the Medical Service Magen David administered an injection with a male nurse, with women veiled in the background. January 1, 1948. Israel

Bedside manners (EV007320_H)

08/12/1951. Image of the young María Luisa Díaz de Herrera Morán in her bed at the Provincial Hospital, after having been savagely attacked by four criminals and abandoned in a state of extreme seriousness on the Moncloa highway.

The Duchess Meets The Nursing Sisters in Hong Kong - HRH the Duchess of Kent photographed with two of the nursing sisters at the Ruttonjee T.B. Sanatorium, Hong Kong, which she visited on Tuesday 28th October, during her Far East tour. November 05, 1952. (Photo by Fox Photos).

British hopefuls for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games are given a course of light therapy or ray treatment in a Westminster surgery Pictured are J. R. Major, V.P. Brown, F. Gaby, S. Ferris and H. A. Johnston. They look as if they're reading a copy of The Sketch magazine. Date: 1928

Anefo photo collection. Dental assistance in the courtyard as a protest against the cancellation of the dentistry sub-facultity in Utrecht. Former Minister Gin Year, chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Utrecht under treatment,. August 31, 1983. The Hague, South Holland

Hospital. Burns victims center Hospitalized child and mother

Wet nurse suckling a baby, historic photograph, around 1910

1930s BOY LOOKING AT CAMERA HEAD WRAPPED IN PAIN FROM SORE DENTAL TOOTH ACHE OR FROM MUMPS

Mid adult woman discussing a prescription with a pharmacist

A Red Cross volunteer checks a dependent's blood pressure at the Fort Polk Hospital Outpatient Clinic. Base: Fort Polk State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Africa: c. 1927 A native in the heart of Africa being inoculated with ganglion serum as part of tests to determine a possible cure for sleeping sickness.

Scene showing nurses, in an NHS hospital, from 'Emergency Ward 10' a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. The National Health Service (NHS) is the public health service in the United Kingdom.

China Boy Plays the Game. In the sick bay of a Coast Guard-manned transport in the Far Pacific, a Chinese refugee boy keeps smiling as the burden of war drives him far from his homeland. With Coast Guardsman William A. Goodfellow, pharmacist's mate third class, he pits his young skill over the checker board. Goodfellow is from Gloucester, New Jersey.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Beglaarkolonie. Exampled young man in wheelchair with nurse. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Doctor examining a female patient, 1929

NO ANESTHETIC NEEDED (EV001541_H)

Kissing couple, female nurse in foreground, illustration

1930s 1940s PORTRAIT OF RED CROSS NURSE LOOKING UP WITH UNITED STATES FLAG BEHIND HER

Actress Ann Sheridan with make-up man Percey Westmore. Clara Lou "Ann" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. Percival Harry Westmore (29 October 1904 - 30 September 1970) was a prominent member of the Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists. He rose to the position of Head of the Warner Bros. make-up department.

A nurse at Montefiore Hospital receives a flu vaccination in 1957. The 1956-58 Asian Flu was a category 2 flu pandemic that originated in China in early 1956. - (BSLOC_2015_1_191)

GET WELL WISHES (EV001528_H)

After a gruelling 880yd run by Edwin Carr, Cotton was quick to count his heartbeats, while an assistant checked his pulse with a machine. Cotton's achievements silenced the sceptics. Professor F. S. Cotton. October 20, 1955.

Misc - Shaving. January 21, 1948.

Anefo photo collection. Dompeur Bruno Togni in Rotterdam hospital, here with wife. July 23, 1966. Rotterdam, South Holland

Second World War. Lazarett (probably in Holland). Wounded relatives of the German Wehrmacht in the hospital bed

New building for the Military Medical Service (MGD). On Ypenburg, the new MGD building was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Air Force by Babov (Bureau Construction Maintenance Bed and Conditions). As in the photo show the building has already been put into use. On the group photo the medical support staff.

Woman visiting sick man (EV004016_H)

Bright-eyed Vanessa, 3½, a patient at the Mount Arcadia Hospital talks to Keith Smith. You can hear what she said in the Pied Piper's Christmas broadcast on Friday, 7.30 pm, 2GB. December 21, 1954. (Photo by Polkinghorne And Stevens).

Muhammad Ali getting his first facial in 1985 in Louisville Kentucky

Preparation of traditional beds for boarders, Wittgenstein poster bed, Crazy Hotels, Pension Kamerichs inn, Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

05/02/1979. Blood donation at the Spanish press house, carried out by a hematology team from the Red Cross to the members of the workshops and the editorial staff of "Abc" and "blanco y Negro".

Anefo photo collection. Entry Dutch Student Orchestra in Bergen the student with hospital bed. January 3, 1969. Bergen

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Woman veterinary surgeon cleaning stalls.

Vintage photograph. Portrait of brunet woman in nurse uniform.

Nurse looking at a doctor smoking

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

Vintage photograph. Woman wearing nurse uniform and cap with mouth slightly smiling

Patient on the hospital bed with a doctor and a nurse

Vintage photograph. Woman wearing nurse uniform and cap

Women at War 1939-1945 Nursing: Half-length portrait of Nurse Diana Hotham of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in Italy. Nurse Hotham spent 3 1/2 years nursing at Bovington Camp and Aldershot before going to Italy.

Nursing recruitment poster Document: Nursing recruitment poster from 1964-1973 (INF 13/238 (18)) Description: This poster from 1964-1973 encourages viewers with the catchy tagline: 'People remember Nurses'. Since the 1930s, demand for nurses has grown steadily, especially after the creation of the NHS in 1948. What kind of recruitment tactics does this poster use Our newest online lesson explores the recruitment and role of African nurses in the British health services: nursing

Be a Cadet Nurse. The girl with a future! , Women, War work, Nurses, Recruiting & enlistment, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Cadet Nurse Corps

Studio portrait of female nurse

Dental Technician Second Class (DT2) C.J. Phillips is assisted by SGT. Holmes of the U.S. Army Medical Corps while cleaning the teeth of "Cain" at the U.S. Army Veterinary Clinic. Base: Port District State: Guam (GU) Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

Scene showing a nurse on a 'Girl's Annual' based on 'Emergency Ward 10' a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. The National Health Service (NHS) is the public health service in the United Kingdom.

Red Cross - Join ... All you need is a heart and a dollar. Red Cross work must go on, circa 1917

'Why catch their influenza'. An advert for Formamint germ killing throat tablets to ward against the spread of influenza which killed millions at the end of World War One. 1918

Advertisement for the Gieve life-saving waistcoat from Gieves Ltd, The Royal Naval Outfitters, intended for use by victims of torpedoed ships during the First World War. It could be worn as an ordinary waistcoat under uniform, inflated easily in seconds and was fitted with a brandy flask! The advert claims it was the one known and reliable means of life-saving from U-boats and mine disasters, a claim confirmed by a testimonial from one man who, not trusting lifeboats, preferred to use it when

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