Historical Medical Practices

Black and white images depicting historical medical procedures, nurses, and patient care from earlier decades.

United States: July 23, 1942. A Navy Medical Corps nurse gives a post-op sailor a rub down to relieve sore and stiff muscles.

Exhausted women sleeping with luggage in waiting room (OV2023_37)

Postmortem of a Child. Carl Durheim (Swiss, 1810 - 1890)

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0280. 1956

Plaintiff's Exhibit 14. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print.

Man Getting a Physical. Original caption: 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

A doctor treats patients in the village of El Mulato, Sierra Maestra Mountains, Cuba.

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi standing behind a patient Tom Kano in Wheelchair, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA, Ansel Adams, Manzanar War Relocation Center Collection, 1943

Female nurse embracing patient

Young woman lying with oxygen mask and IV drip, female nurse and doctor in the background, illustration

Two female medical lab technicians conduct a fluoroscopy x-ray on a female patient who is laying face down on a table.

Medical researcher looking through a microscope, 1952

Mess Boys, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, circa 1900

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mr Perks of Gloucester as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

1950s FRUSTRATED HOUSEWIFE WITH JAMMED WRINGER ON CLOTHES WASHING MACHINE IN KITCHEN

A simulated patient is turned on his side by medical technicians and doctors from the 121st Medical Group as part of a training scenario Feb. 19, 2013, at Suwon Air Base, South Korea.

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. Looking out from the rear of the van. 1939, Israel, Nejd

Surgical instrument tray & sister (about 30). March 30, 1949.

Firs aid with oxygen mask

Vintage Photograph. A man adding medication to water.

Photo collection Government information service. Hospitals, treatments, patients. undated

Resident and operation of an old people's home of the AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) on 07.03.1980 in Hagen, Germany, Europe

Tauferer Valley, Excellence Roth visits a hospital on 12.2.1916. .

Anefo photo collection. Patients of the Innergasthuis in Amsterdam with so-called Polyances transferred to the new AMC in Bijlmermeer. 24 June 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

TSGT Lonnie Shoupe undegoes a whirlpool treatment for a sprained ankle in the physical therapy section of the USAF hospital. Base: Naval Air Facility, Misawa State: Aomori Country: Japan (JPN)

Anefo photo collection. Photos behalf Dutch Asthma Fund. TV monitor. 3, 1989

Vintage Photograph. Woman looks down taking notes on clipboard in nurses outfit.

British Contributions To Tropical Health -- In the Insectary at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, typical of many in Britain; mosquitoes are bred for further research work on malaria, and on yellow fever, both of which diseases they carry to man. Here, Miss Wall is removing an adult mosquito from the cage. She was one of the team of British experts who were responsible for entirely riding Cyprus of mosquitoes, and thus wiping out malaria in the island. May 21, 1953. (Photo by C

The birth of a child in hospital, here on 10.4.1998 in Iserlohn, is a special event for every family, DEU, Germany, Europe

Moreuil, Somme, Picardie, interior France of the Moreuil hospital, great wounded and nurse , 1916 - Regions at war Meuse, Haute -Marne, Oise, Somme - Stéphane Passet - (February -30 July) (French - Moreuil , Somme , Picardie , France Intérieur de l' hôpital de Moreuil , grands blessés et infirmière). Woman, interior view, exists in high definition, care center, work clothing, domestic object, front, medical staff, injured , mutilated, man, Human beings, habitat , architecture, HD, health, clothing, daily life, First World War, France, Moreuil, interior of ambulance with great wounded, Ms. Louis & Egot nurses

Ramu Valley - At a medical dressing station in the Ramu Valley, Markham River boy Sawui has his teeth examined by an Army dentist. March 26, 1944. (Photo by Department Of Information Picture).

Theres nothing extraordinary about Ousby's eyes. He something asks a patient to look steadily into them but says himself that it is his voice which does the work. January 24, 1948.

A patient receiving Physical Training instruction at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, London, during his rehabilitation from the loss of both his legs in 1944.

Photo collection Government information service. The poet writer Jan Jacobus Slauerhoff on his death bed .. October 5, 1936. Hilversum

First Aid Training. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

S65-19524 (1 June 1965) --- Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief of Center Medical Programs, MSC, Houston, Texas, prepares to check the blood pressure of astronaut James A. McDivitt, command pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 spaceflight. McDivitt is on the tilt table at the Aero Medical Area, MSC, Merritt Island, where he and astronaut Edward H. White II (out of frame), GT-4 pilot, underwent preflight physicals in preparation for the four-day, 62-revolution spaceflight. The two astronauts were declared in top physical condition. In the background is Dr. Gordon Benson, NASA physician at Cape Kennedy.

First Aid Instruction. 1937-05-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Richard's Drug Store, 678 Centre St. , Drugstores, Soda fountains. Leon Abdalian Collection

SPEC. 4 Jean Barr, left, fills prescription bottles while pharmacy intern Kathrine Sawyer, foreground, restocks a pill counting and dispensing machine. In the background, Charles Myers, a pharmacy technician, and SPEC. 5 Bipin Sheth, work the assembly line filling prescription orders at the Womack Army Hospital. Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ward at Randwick Auxiliary Hospital. May 7, 1948. (Photo by Frank Albert Charles Burke/Fairfax Media).

The Hospital; L'Hopital. Philome Obin (1891-1986). Oil on board. 61.5 x 76cm.

Mahatma Gandhi during the appendicitis operation of his grand daughter Manu at Patna, Bihar, India, May 15, 1947 - MODEL RELEASE NOT AVAILABLE Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Anefo photo collection. Girl (17) abducted and abused, place of the crime. August 29, 1962

Mahatma Gandhi convalescing at Palm Bun, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia, March-May, 1924 India Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox -

1920s A PREPARED BOY SCOUT IN UNIFORM GIVING FIRST AID TO INJURED WIRE HAIRED TERRIER DOG WRAPPING BANDAGE ON PAW

1960S Two Babies Wearing Diapers In Business Office With Adding Machine Playing Accountant

First aid training.

1950S Two Little Girls Playing Nurse Nostalgia

Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme : interviews, nursing care and activities.

Ward donated by the National Geographic Society in the American Military Hospital No. 1, which is supported by the American Red Cross, Neuilly, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, June 1918

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-1040. 1956

Japan, Nagasaki, Nagasaki atomic bomb burn victim sitting on the bed, December 1946

Various photos in the field of medicine, here17.0.1996 in Iserlohn, Iserlohn. ENT practice consultation hour.Seniorsprechstundenhile, DEU, Germany, Iserlohn, Europe

The birth of a child in hospital, here on 10.4.1998 in Iserlohn, is a special event for every family, DEU, Germany, Europe

Some Vietnamese doctors and assistants crouching around a wounded man lying on the ground. War in Vietnam (1960-1975). Saigon (Vietnam), 1968.

Anefo photo collection. Sculptor Jacob Jutte gives a press conference on events at the marriage of his secretary Jacob Jutte with evidence and injured wrist,. April 17, 1969

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

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Expedition star Mountains Julianatop (1959) - Guinea. Government doctor Romeyn told blood sibillers population screening. 1959. Guinea

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Lucia celebration 1930. Pictured Karl Landsteiner , 1868-1943, Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist. Known for having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups. Here 1930 in Stockholm when a young woman as Lucia treats him for coffee. Landsteiner recieved the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year and is in Stockholm to accept the prize.

Flying Enterprise survivor in Liverpool hospital Jumped overboard Dashed against side.Liverpool: George Miterko, one of the surviving crew members of the American freighter flying enterprise, lies in a Liverpool Hospital suffering from shock , and back, knee and arm injuries. January 03, 1952.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Military hospital to Semarang. Laboratory. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Doctor and a nurse reviewing a medical report in the corridor of a hospital

1960S Man Painter Shouting In Pain After Fall From Ladder At House

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

Doctor and young woman wrapped in sheet by Stanley Borack, 20th century

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

Doctor and a nurse reviewing a medical report

Anefo photo collection. Blood pressure measuring device at V & D in Utrecht (for customers). February 15, 1980. Utrecht

Vintage Photograph. A pharmacist reviewing customers prescription.

Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is being demonstrated to a first-aid class on the Safety Day. Base: Hahn Air Base Country: Federal Republic Of Germany (FRG)

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition Medical equipment "The instrument" in RAI Amsterdam. September 29, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Massage device for the feet in Bowling Center on Rembrandplein. August 5, 1965

Disabled American Veteran in Hospital Bed, Edward Hines Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, photo by Disabled American Veterans of the World War, 1931

Psychotron II used for electroshock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, ECT in the Dr Guislain Museum about the history of psychiatry, Ghent, Belgium, Europe

Doctor consoling a nurse and firefighters extinguishing fire in the background

"A young Vietnamese boy, suffering from unknown paralysis, shows signs of pain as Chief Hospital Corpsman Richard M. Felton from the Preventive Medicine Section helps him. The boy was evacuated from a flooded village in the 1st Marine Division's area of responsibility during a Medical Civil Assistance Program. Photograph taken on November 14, 1970."

Female nurse looking sad

Zanzibar Hospital -- In the Zanzibar Hospital dispensary. Mr. P. Patel (left) who is head dispenser. He was trained as a dispenser in India and has under his charge two young dispensers who have just returned from their training in Kenya. With him is one of the Dispensers, Ahmed Aley said. They dispense all mixtures and other preparations for the European, Asian, and African Hospitals, and are also kept busy dispensing for the sixteen dispensaries on the island of Zanzibar. September 19, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

1970s AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK NURSE QUESTION INTERVIEW

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