Historical Medical Practices

Antique illustrations depicting historical medical practices and patient care, reflecting the evolution of healthcare with a vintage artistic style.

The caption for this 1853 illustration of a novel by Sir Walter Scott reads: Waverley Novels - St Ronans Well: Is Life Gone - is every spark extinct he exclaimed eagerly to a country surgeo, a sensible man, who had been summoned from Marchthorn in the course of the night. The medical man shook his head. Tyrrel rushed to the bedside, and was convinced by his own eyes, that the being whose sorrows he had both caused and shared was now insensible to all earthly calamity. He raised almost a shriek of despair, as he threw himself on the pale hand of the corpse, wet it with tears, devoured it wi

Three long-faced physicians prepare a clyster for a pallid young woman; representing Thiers and two other ministers attending to France amidst her troubles after 1848. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1849.

Witse at the sickbed of Barte from Doctor Lief and Leed. Draughtsman: Ferdinand Carl Sierich. Dating: 1849 - 1905. Measurements: h 124 mm × w 188 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Shoulder operation. In a room a man is operated on his shoulder by another man. A woman looks. On the wall depends on a man's print or drawing.

Diseases so my old! Leave me on this! Huh! I give jogs to my porter !!

Our Own Vivandiere': A plea for support for Mary Jane Seacoal (1805-1881) who, at her own expense, in 1855 went to the Crimea to nurse and care for the sick and wounded, and who was now poverty-stricken. From 'Punch', London, 30 May 1857.

Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac, complaining of his ailments to his nurse. Pen and ink drawing by L. Frölich, 1859.

A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.

The caption for this 1853 illustration of a novel by Sir Walter Scott reads: Waverley Novels - St Ronans Well: Is Life Gone - is every spark extinct he exclaimed eagerly to a country surgeo, a sensible man, who had been summoned from Marchthorn in the course of the night. The medical man shook his head. Tyrrel rushed to the bedside, and was convinced by his own eyes, that the being whose sorrows he had both caused and shared was now insensible to all earthly calamity. He raised almost a shriek of despair, as he threw himself on the pale hand of the corpse, wet it with tears, devoured it wi

A doctor diagnosing a cat with mumps and prescribing a remedy. Coloured pencil drawing.

'Dread of Hydrophobia (Rabies): Anxious father hurry to his young son who has been bitten by a mad dog. The boy's wound has already been cauterized with a red-hot skewer. Engraving, 1873.'

A mother in bed after having given birth; the midwife showing the baby to the father. Coloured stipple engraving, ca. 1800.

A barber shaving a man in a candlelit bedroom. Engraving by T. Hosemann.

A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Etching after J. Northcote.

The death of Hannah Greener from inhaling too much chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1848, England, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780-1860, British, Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer, ca. 1820. Graphite and brown wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper.

Italy. Naples. Cholera. Visit of King Humbert I of Savoy (1844-1900) to the sick of the Arrabal. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

Good women's remedies. / 6. (Registered title) | Patients and doctors. (title of all)

Woman on her sickbed, Charles Nicolas Cochin (II), 1742 print France paper etching / engraving sick-bed. physician, doctor. weeping

Barber brushing a clients hair with Willoughbys rotary hairbrush powered by a treadle fitted beneath the salon chair. Engraving, London, 1884.

Direct transfusion: arm to arm Date: 1679

A 17th century European doctor examines a flask of urine from an elderly female patient. After a 17th century print by Quirin Boel after the painting by David Teniers.

THE EXPLOSIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY, SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT VISITING THE WOUNDED AT ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, UK, 1883

Opening a vein , Phlebotomy, Blood. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Engraving depicting a coil being used to give therapeutic shocks to a patient in a saline bath. Dated 19th century

A barber surgeon operating in his office.

medicine sick persons ""Le Remede"" (The Remedy) copper engraving coloured France circa 1750 private collection,

Consultation or care room of a hospital.

Woman tells doctor that sick man died, Honoré Daumier, 1840 Paris paper letterpress printing caricatures (human types). physician, doctor

Fabel van de Dokters, Johann Heinrich Meil (the older), After Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1758 print paper etching fables of Lafontaine : Use 85(...). physician, doctor. sick-bed. visiting the sick; sick person together with others

An emaciated old man being treated by four doctors, 1852, a steam bath billows in the background. The two men on the far right hold a glass eye and a pair of false teeth, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the time..

Mesmer's tub at his consulting room in parish which opened soon after his treatise 'Memoire sur la decouverte de magnetism animal' in 1779. Tub was a vat of dilute sulphuric acid and patients at therapy sessions sat around it either holding hands, or holding one of the iron bars projecting from it. Illustration published Paris c1870.

A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Engraving.

A puzzled physician taking the pulse of a young female patient, a boy in the backgroung is pointing to arrows, suggesting that the malady is lovesickness. Engraving by S. Freeman after J. Opie.

Opening a vein , Phlebotomy, Blood. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. Accident ward.

Aftermath of a brawl in a flophouse in London. Aftermath of a brawl in a flophouse in London. From Travel Diaries, vintage engraving, 1884-85. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659865

Village dentist, the village blacksmith as a doctor with a suffering patient who is being held by two people, 1880, Moravia, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

A man is stretchered into the Hospital for Sunstruck Patients in Centre Street, City Hall Park, New York City. After an illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 1870.

USA, New York, Brooklyn, Homoeopathic Hospital, Convalescents by Charles Stanley Reinhart, circa 1878, (1844-1896)

Caricature: John Bull in Apothecaries shop

A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse. Coloured lithograph.

A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.

Village doctor. In his practice, a village doctor treats a young patient to his head. This is sitting on a chair and holds a bowl under his chin.

Queen Victoria visiting the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.

Sick woman comes from her bed; The sick woman. A man and a woman helping a sick woman out of bed so that she can attract a nice robe.

The Anatomist' cartoon by Rowlandson published 1811, showing terror of patient and wife as surgeon opens bag of instruments. They have seen poster on wall & fear patient will die and be used for anatomical demonstration. Engraving

Gil Blas, who worked under Dr. Sangrado practices, meets Dr. Cuchillo at the grocer's bedside, Gil Blas learned the doctor's trade from a charlatan and brings his patients to death within a short time through repeated bloodletting and prescription of drinking hot water, 1820, after a painting by Joshua Cristall, England, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original.

Conflict Between Quae Genus and Lawyer Gripe-all, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax" October 1, 1821 Thomas Rowlandson. Conflict Between Quae Genus and Lawyer Gripe-all, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). October 1, 1821. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

'Dr. Howard's method of treating the apparently drowned'; demonstration of the method of resuscitation used by Dr. Howard of New York.

A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.

Charitable lady visiting poor family to help nurse one of its members who is dying. A patchwork quilt covers the bed. Illustration, London, 1868 by Luke Fildes (1843-1927).

A surgeon supervising two groups of people pulling in opposite directions in order to cure a man with a shoulder dislocation. Pen drawing.

First ovariotomy, 1878

Interior of a British Hospital by artist unknown, ca. 1840

G. Washington in His Last Illness Attended by Doctors Craik and Brown, from Pictures Belonging to Mrs. Margaret E. Davies. undefined.

The Good Patient - Uncle Sam You must bleed me, why don't you begin - Political cartoon, 1862

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Illustration depicting a young girl on her deathbed. Illustrated by John Lawson. Dated 19th Century

Armoperatie, anonymous, 1680 - 1713 print A man is operated on his upper arm. He pulls a paired face. A third man watches. paper engraving operation, surgery

1880S 1881 President James A Garfield On His Deathbed After Being Shot By Assassin Charles Guiteau

Engraving of a surgeon with patient. from Baron Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg 1682, book 'GEORGICA CURIOSA.' which has instructions for every day life and includes a chapter on apothecary recipes.

Homeopaths. / 4. (Registered Title) | Patients and doctors. (title of all)

Visit the sick. .

Village doctor. In his practice, a village doctor treats a young patient to his head. This is sitting on a chair and holds a bowl under his chin.

An unwell woman bombarded by her five friends' different recommendations of a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.

Village dentist, the village blacksmith as a doctor with a suffering patient who is being held by two people, 1880, Moravia, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE EAST END: "RECOVERING:" AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL, UK, 1876

King Wilhelm I in the palace hospital at Versailles, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

Interior with man reading to a sick person in bed.

Princess Louise visits the Victoria hospital for sick children in Chelsea Date: 1876

Dr. Robert James, inventor of a patent 'fever powder,' giving his medicine to a sick man as a quack doctor steals the medicine from the doctor's pocket and a ghost denounces the thief. 1754

Reinier de Graaf tijdens een anatomische les; Titelpagina voor: Graaf, Reinier de. De Succo Pancreatico, 1671.Doctor Reinier De Graaf gives two students an anatomical lesson. A man with an opened belly cavity is on a table for him. There are some dead animals on the other side of the table. At the rear left a man lies in bed.

Omnibus pharmacy. / 24. (Registered Title) | Patients and doctors. (title of all)

Medical consultation, satirical drawing. Michałowski, Piotr (1800-1855), painter

A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Goupil, Goupil & Cie, Une soeur du bon-secours, Reproduction of a painting of a nurse at the bedside of a girl by Jules Trayer, recto - printed, photomechanical print, reproduction, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Musée pour tous 1877, height 233 mm, width 179 mm, French, maker, producer, 1872 - 1879, paper, papier, Woodburygravure

Doctor Robert Macaire gives a letter for the press to Bertrand, Honoré Daumier, After Charles Philipon, 1837 Paris paper letterpress printing caricatures (human types). physician, doctor. press, journalism

Two men with a physician, discussing the chameleon on the table before them. Coloured lithograph after HH.

Death of King Willem II, 1849, 1853 - 1855 print The death of King William II in Tilburg on March 17, 1849. The king dies sitting in a chair in a room, his wife Anna Paulowna kneels at his feet. Behind her stands Prince Hendrik, on the right the adjutants Coehoorn and Merkes. To the left of the king the chamberlain Matthijs, the doctor Everard. More to the left the doctors Maes and Van Hees and De Kamerheer Aerts. Netherlands paper deathbed Tilburg

A surgeon using an electrical device to externally track a hidden bullet inside a patient's body. Wood engraving, ca. 1890.

Will I be fine ....... you advance horribly! (registered title) | Travel for eternity. (title of all)

A nurse is cajoled by a director. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Monkey as a surgeon. A monkey operates the foot of another monkey. A second monkey is brought in the "operating room". From a stick on the wall, a owl makes the scene gade.

THE WAR BETWEEN SERBIA AND BULGARIA: THE QUEEN OF SERBIA VISITING THE HOSPITAL OF THE ENGLISH NATIONAL AID SOCIETY AT BELGRADE, 1886

A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Drawing by J.H. Choustrac, 1905.

A similar supplier / -Decidement I will not take your medicine, I think I'm going to evacuate without it. (IT)

. The brewing and administration of a medication against syphilis on the right is the tribe of the American medicinal plant guiacum through a servant in pieces minced. Other servants make a medicine from the bark pieces. On the left a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the looseness that is at the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a ninetical series about new inventions and discoveries.

After the Crisis, Fever Decline, Health, Child Concern, Parents Holding Their Child After an Illness, after a painting by E. Defonte, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original, original date unknown

Venesection on male patient circa 1671.

A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.

A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.

Doctor visiting a sick patient, Tokyo, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Dentist, treatment of a distinguished lady by two doctors, tooth extraction, toothache, dentist, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Visite Chez la Nourrice (Visit to the Wetnurse) (from Journal l'Artiste) 19th century Victor Adam French. Visite Chez la Nourrice (Visit to the Wetnurse) (from Journal l'Artiste) 418731

Caroline Gann (Mrs Brandon) serving as a nurse and known as 'The Little Sister' , administering chloroform to the extortionist Mr Hunt. Illustration by Frederick Walker for William Makepeace Thakeray The Advertures of Philip, from Cornhill Magazine, 1861-62.

A doctor takes the pulse of a patient. Etching by M. Österreich, 1750, after P.L. Ghezzi.

Equine Doctor Administering Medication to a Sick Horse Equestrian (series title), print maker: Johann Elias Ridinger, (mentioned on object), Johann Elias Ridinger, (mentioned on object), Augsburg, 1708 - 1767, paper, etching, h 232 mm - w 342 mm

Physician taking the pulse of a hypochondriac, 19th Century.

A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.

Flogging applied to a defendant in the presence of the governor and the prison doctor, Tokyo. Japan, Asia. Journey to Japan by Aime Humbert 1863-1864 from Le Tour du Monde 1867

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