Historical Medical Practices

Black and white images depicting nurses and doctors in historical hospital settings. Illustrates traditional medical care and nursing practices.

Vintage Photograph. Hospital making a cardiogram at the Heart Station.

Carl Hansen (Narooma, NSW), was 17 when he joined the RAN ***** 1941 He was in destroyer Hasty in the Middle East when he developed an arthritis spine and joints. He has been in his bed for six years (mostly at Concord *****. August 21, 1948.;Carl Hansen (Narooma, NSW), was 17 when he joined the RAN ***** 1941 He was in destroyer Hasty in the Middle East when he developed an arthritis spine and joints. He has been in his bed for six years (mostly at Concord *****.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) nurse examines the teeth of migrant in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm workers. Caldwell, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

UMM Said Hospital - Wherever a British oil company operates in the Middle East, there also will be found amenities, schools, and up-to-date medical facilities for the benefit of it employees and, very of ten, also for the local inhabitants.The Iraq Petroleum Company has many undertakings of this kind to its credit in the various concession areas - all of them built; equipped, staffed and maintained at the Company's expense. UMM said, for instance, is only a small leading station as the Qater peninsula which juts out into the Persiao Gulf from the Arabiao shore. August 19, 1951.

Children's compartment in 3-class stroller, State Railways, SJ C08B.

Anefo photo collection. Injections against rabies. October 16, 1962

1912 operation separating young Indian conjoined twin sisters, Radica & Doodica, by famous French surgeon, Eugene-Louis Doyen (1859-1916) is at far left.

Emergency Hospital Exhibit 1955 , Operating rooms, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Emergency Hospital Exhibit 1955 , Operating rooms, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

United States: c. 1933 A patient getting shot of novocain before having a tooth extracted by a dentist.

Poll photo collection. Hadassah University Medical Center. Department for pediatrics. A nurse gives a toddler a bottle with liquid power supply. January 1, 1960. Israel

A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at a London hospital in 1940. A nurse places a crying baby into its gas respirator during a drill at a London hospital.

Treating Tuberculosis- Screening and Treatment at Harefield Hospital, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1943 A nurse assists a doctor as he 'screens' a patient at Harefield Hospital. An x-ray is being taken of the young man's chest to look for signs of TB.

Anefo photo collection. Foreign Red Crosses help Dutch hospitals. 27 February 1946

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

Anefo photo collection. Beautician Nadine G. Payot (75) during a demonstration at the Carlton hotel. 14 May 1962. France

Training Queen's Nurses- District Nurse Training at the Queen's Institute of District Nursing, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, 1944 In the early stages of her training, a trainee District Nurse (left) injects a diabetes-sufferer with insulin during a home visit. She is accompanied by a Sister (right), on her first rounds. The original caption states that 'whilst they are with the patient the sister says nothing, but afterwards she gives nurse her criticism of the way she has handled the case'.

The civilian internees, living in the Prison Compound at Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippine Islands, were subjected to an intense shelling by Japanese firmly entrenched in the down-town Manila sector. This girl, who later died, is shown receiving plasma

Doctor assisting a patient in an iron lung

Photograph demonstrating how to iron a shirt or blouse in 1911. Date: 1911

Lessing's Pictures on Coal - Rehabilitation Center at Oignies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Crippled children. June 16, 1953.

Leg saver. Chester Antos, student at Georgetown University medical school, photographed with the newly devised Emerson suction pressure apparatus which designers believe will prevent amputation in many cases circa 11/12/1935.

Dr. Cunningham Dax, reforming mental hospitals in Aust.Performance tests can measure the progress made by a young mother in her fight to regain mental health. November 16, 1955. (Photo by Look Magazine).

Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. In an officers' ward at No. 5 RAF General Hospital, Abassia, Egypt, the Hospital Commanding Officer, Group Captain J D Rear (second from right), and visiting surgical consultant, Air Commodore P A Hall (first right), talk to a patient. Sister Schilling PMRAFNS of Walberswick, Suffolk, stands by the bed.

Anefo photo collection. Consultation agency Infants Regenstel Hague. June 21, 1954. Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Zuiderzeeziekenhuis in Lelystad is a trial with hundred and twenty volunteers; "Patient" in the X-ray department. August 17, 1982. Flevoland, Lelystad

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

Vintage Photograph. A boy sick in bed surrounded by doctor and mother checking him out.

Dr Gibson-Hill examines Irene Stacey with a stethoscope at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, prior to the birth of her first child in 1942.

Young woman looking at a locked of a young man who is lying on the bed in a hospital (EV005667_H)

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits the Emma Children's Hospital on the occasion of the 100th anniversary. Queen Juliana during the tour. May 6, 1965

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Lebanon. Miss CL. Welcker investigates the health of a woman in a school in Zaita. 1950. Lebanon, Zaita

Anefo photo collection. Wilkes in the Rotterdam hospital. November 28, 1948. Rotterdam, South Holland

DEU, Germany: Historical slides from the 84-85 r years, Hagen. Red Cross. Blood donation service. ca. 1984

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Banjoemas, Chinese control committee. Port tjilatjap. Waranedia. Waranedia: In the politics of the Tjisaroe-Tjipari rubber company, Dr. A.J. Van Meurs Van De inf. 2 consultation hours for the population. After years of neglect, the Dutch Red Cross is in the work by the Dutch Red Cross to eliminate public health from a doubtful crisis. 10 October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Duchess Meets Little Duke -- Duchess of Gloucester, visiting the Bathurst district hospital on Saturday, pauses to speak to a young patient. His name is George Duke. October 13, 1945. (Photo by Martin/Fairfax Media).

Wellness with vegetable treatment, England, Great Britain

A dentist from the central sickness (CZB) in the Marine Barracks Willemsoord (MKWD) in Den Helder examines the teeth of a patient (July 1989).

Anefo photo collection. 1940-1945 Recovery Resorts. 1940-1945 Recovery Resorts. Palace Het Loo. Doctors treat a boy who stole a German truck and tackled and abused by the Grüne Polizei. The Germans allowed him to stand in ice cold water for two days. After release, the patient suffered an extreme form of rheumatism. November 13, 1945. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Anefo photo collection. The Red Crosship "J. Henry Dunant" makes a journey of a week with 42 young patients, mainly with respiratory and heart problems. Two nurses at a patient in a wheelchair. July 14, 1969

Prince Chumbhot, who is executive Vice Chairman of the Siamese Red Cross inspecting the Australian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Centre, York St City today. He is seen watching attendants taking blood from a doner. A Siamese Dr. Miss Sommai Springam also attended the centre with the Prince, and has been studying our methods in the hope that a similar service may be established in slam. July 14, 1952. (Photo by Guy William Wilmott/).

Lille. Quatrieme Festival Cuturel International Etudiant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, CLINICALTREATMENT War

Recording T.B.V. A brochure about the role and skills of the infirmary (Den Helder, March 1990).

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and migrant child in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm families, Caldwell, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

Doctor's visit, 1950s, exact place unknown, Germany, Europe

The youngest Dionne Gets Dressed: As the Nurse dresses the newest addition to the Dionne Family - A Husky, Eight pound Baby Boy - Some of his brothers and sisters watch with much interest. Left to Right : Daniel 4, Rose 9, Therese 7, and Ernest 9. August 10, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

1940s MALE PATIENT HOSPITAL BED HEAD WRAPPED BANDAGE BEING ATTENDED TO BY TWO MEN DOCTORS

Image of a mother with child in the consultation room at the doctor of the Consultation Office for Infringements in the Groene Kruisgebouw (Amsterdamsestraatweg 472) in Zuilen.n.b. This street was added to the municipality of Utrecht on January 1, 1954.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Medical care at Petroleum-Maatschappij Moeara Enim to chort. Moela enim. Sumatra. Healthcare in the liberated areas. A patient receives an injection. October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Vintage Photograph. At the Hospital taking a cardiogram at the Heart Station.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit by Professor Romme to Medan. Dr. C.p.m. Romme (in light shirt) during a visit to the military hospital in Medan. February 1947. Indonesia, Medan, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Vintage Photograph. Mother watching baby receive anti-rabies shot.

Anefo photo collection. The Red Crosship "J. Henry Dunant" makes a journey of a week with 42 young patients, mainly with respiratory and heart problems. Ventilation equipment. July 14, 1969

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor giving a demonstration of meat cutting before a group of FSA officials at a district meeting at San Angelo, Texas

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

Soldier's Son- Pregnancy and Childbirth in Wartime, Bristol, England, 1942.

Man sitting on a hospital bed looking feared (EV005813_H)

Governor General's tour of Northern Territory. Lady Gowrie talking to S/Lieut. Baines at a hospital in Northwest Australia. August 19, 1943. (Photo by Department of Information, Commonwealth of Australia).

And He Paid To Have It Done.All human torture didn't end with the Dark Ages, E.K. Butler Learns, once more, as his dentist gets down to bed rock. It was such faces as this that drove dentists to the invention of the new desensitizer which the patient to smile while the dentist speeds on with the growling drill. July 27, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Melbourne research scientist, Dr. S. G. Anderson, of South Yarra, who has isolated the virus which causes German measles.The director of Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, praising his work, said: "We hope that this will eventually be the basis of preventing infection of mothers from German measles. March 09, 1955. (Photo by Daily Herald).

Vintage photograph. Doctors and a female nurse with patients in a hospital

Anefo photo collection. Vaccination dogs in Amsterdam, dog gets syringe. December 6, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Child being treated in health clinic. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Mrs Bugler Goes To War- Everyday Life in East Dean, Sussex, England, 1943 Beside the village hall in East Dean is the First Aid Post, which has been fully equipped by the villagers. Here we see women of the village practicing their First Aid skills. In this instance, Mrs Kemp is the patient and Mrs Wynne instructs Louise Roberts, Mrs Bugler's help, in bandaging.

Vintage photograph. New x-ray machine developed by the General electric x-ray corporation

Neonatal - neo natal unit of hospital in 1960s possibly NIH.

Eleven yeat old boy in an iron lung, Beaujon Hospital, Paris, c1947-1951 Artist: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Children's Hospital Amsterdam (1945). Toddler eats independently. In addition to him a nurse. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Dentistry equipment.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Military hospital. Doctor (with a cigarette in the mouth) looks at a wound of a patient. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Assen, day after the collection of hostage in the provincial home: Deputy Prime Minister Hans Wiegel and the Queen's Commissioner in Drenthe Mrs. A.P. Schilthuis and Mrs Van Dijke and Marsman visiting officials were injured in the hospital. March 15, 1978. Assen, Drenthe

A dead man, wearing robes, lying on his deathbed. Photograph.

1950S Female Nurse Holding Infant Up To Father At Nursery Window

Anefo photo collection. Four-day in Nijmegen, nurses from Bennekom at the water tap. July 28, 1964. Nijmegen

Grounded For A While - A Four-Year-Old condor -- one of the biggest birds that fly - is prepared for X-ray examination at the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for animals in New York City. Owner of the large bird, Ivan Sanderson, an animal importer who purchased the condor for the Stamford, Conn. Museum and Zoo, observes the preparation, as Dr. Robert Jewett and Assistant Eddie Schoenenberger tend to the X-ray. The bird's habitat is Peru. August 20, 1952. (Photo by United Press Photo).

Battle Creek, Michigan: c. 1927. A doctor performing a tonsil examination on a woman patient at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Mrs. Pyers, also in hospital, following the birth of Sandra Joan (51b 11oz). September 14, 1953.

Student Nurse- Life at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, 1943.

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

Doctor examining a baby, 1928

Photograph of a young boy recovering in hospital from burns. The Nurses placed him near the window so that he can watch the boats pass. Dated 1942

$A hospital corpsman monitors the blood pressure of a patient in the station hospital's emergency room as another corpsman checks the patient for facial fractures. Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)$

Kawit (Cavite, Philippines), 1962. Luis María Ansón, gives General Emilio Aguinaldo some copies of ABC, in the room where María Agoncillo de Aguinaldo, his wife, is suffering from a slight illness.

Beauty care in the 1950s. A young woman is massaging a mans head. Sweden June 1959

Anefo photo collection. Elderly woman in sick bed. February 14, 1969

The Reconstruction of 'an Incident'- Civil Defence Training in Fulham, London, 1942 The Medical Officer of the Mobile Medical Unit treats a casualty with a severe abdominal wound, before he is transferred to hospital. The Medical Officer (with the letters 'MO' on his steel helmet) is assisted by a nurse. In the background, Civil Defence Wardens help another casualty to drink a cup of tea. This photograph was taken at the end of Edith Villas, where it butts up to West Cromwell Road/Conan Street, looking towards Conan Street, which runs at right angles to Edith Villas.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Beatrix opens St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein; 10, 11 kidney patients on device. March 23rd 1984. Nieuwegein

11/01/1914. Inside a Hospital ship. Descent into the bedroom of an injured person by means of a special crane.

Anefo photo collection. Mission Vaz Dias, transfer operating room in Nijmegen. April 16, 1973. Nijmegen

The X-ray department of the military hospital in the Muzenstraat in The Hague. A Milva serves the device.

Newly available measles vaccine shot is given to a young boy in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania in 1963. The immunization is now part of the routine shots received by children.

Cold water immersion during hypothermia experiments at Dachau concentration camp presided over by Professor Holzlohner (left) and Dr Rascher (right). Prisoners did not volunteer, they were forced to participate.

State Railways, SJ Bo5b. Children's coup.

Anefo photo collection. The Red Crosship "J. Henry Dunant" makes a journey of a week with 42 young patients, mainly with respiratory and heart problems. Patients on the quay. July 14, 1969

Mrs. Frith is matron of the Badu Island hospital. She believes in the ability of natives to equal the whites. June 08, 1953.

Vintage Photograph. Buck McHugh. Model Released. Sick man in pajamas laying in bed with medicine on nightstand. Frame 2

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