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.

A hospital corpsman checks an officer's cast aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20), en route to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Six Days Amsterdam, Peter Post on a stretcher leaves RAI. December 12, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Doctor and nurse insert a needle into a woman's arm. Arnold Eagle (American, 1909 - 1992)

Photo collection Government information service. Stichting 1940-1945 Herstlingsoord Paleis Het Loo. Nurses take care of the former illegal workers. November 13, 1945. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

A Navy dental technician uses a general X-ray machine to take X-rays of a Marine's teeth. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

lotta alla malaria, lattante protetto dall'insidia delle zanzare in un campo di grano, luglio 1926

Medicine, health, operation on the stomach, ca. 1940s, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe

Vintage Photograph. Naked baby ready for diaper change.

A dentist examining a young girl's teeth in 1942.

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. In the clinic at the camp which now houses Japanese-American farm workers. Medical care is provided by the sugar beet companies 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Rupert, Idaho , Minidoka County

Doctor examines daughter of farm worker living at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. 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

Learning to have a baby in the 1960s. A class in how to take care of a baby. A class that men and women go when they are about to be parents for the first time. March 1964.

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

Young girl playing nurse checks her doll for a heartbeat. Mid 1960's.

Anefo photo collection. Military medical exercise "Hold so" by the 11 medicinal battalion at Barneveld, operating room surgeons. 18 May 1960. Barneveld

Chateau des Halles. Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy l'Argentiere. One of the patients, circa 1918

Classic barbershop quartet gives a humorous shave and a haircut

12/31/1935. One of the Injured Nationals Being Transferred to an Ambulance. Photo Vidal Corella.

Dentist & Dental Mechanic - Trades & Tradesmen. September 24, 1953.

Anefo photo collection. Children's Hospital Amsterdam (1945). Baby in bed. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Chicago, Illinois: April 8,, 1927 Artificial sunlight is being used as a treatment for bone tuberculosis in the Christopher Public School for Crippled Children.

Artificial Limb specialists... Mr. Gunter Kairies of Herene Bay, an orthopaedic mechanic or artificial limb specialist working on a leg at the A.L.A. Co. Carlton. November 04, 1955. (Photo by George Lipman/Fairfax Media).

First Aid Training. 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

At last, she was allowed to practise walking with the help of guiding rails and gentle hands. As the leg in the plaster cast was rigid, in the beginning June walked with the other leg rigid. June 02, 1952.

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

Anefo photo collection. Series from Veterinarian Dr. Westerman. March 5, 1962

Portland, Oregon: c. 1955 An attractive young doctor checking the pulse rate of an attractive young woman.

The department of Agriculture is making tests everyday in order to get cosmetics under the Pure Food and Drug Act, Mrs. C.W. West seated is helping Mrs. R. Goodman make a test on cold cream and other facial creams circa 1937.

Poll photo collection. Buddlercentrale of the Dutch Red Cross. In early Baby Caspar sleeping in the couveuse, presumably in the Saint Anna pavilion, the maternity clinic of our dear Lady Gasthuis in Amsterdam. May 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

New A.I.F. men must have good teeth a few of the Dentist on the *****. December 18, 1939.

Man getting his hair cut and nails manicured (EV007596_H)

Anefo photo collection. Children's Hospital Amsterdam (1945). Nurse performs toddler. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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. The patients during the boat trip. July 14, 1969

Pupils of the Victorian Blind Institute can now have first-aid instructions with the help of "Bones," a skeleton sent from London for the purpose. Some of the institute girls are pictured with Matron Odgers making acquaintance with "Bones" today. July 5, 1946.

sleep deprevation

World's First Hydrogen Bomb Victim -- Just received in London shows Kuboyana's wife, mother and daughter at his bedside while is was lying in critical condition in a Tokio hospital.Aikichi Kuboyama, one of the 23 Japanese fishermen who were showered with radioactive ashes near Bikini waters last March when the U.S. made an H-bomb test, has just died as the result of this test, and now the Japanese Government are asking for compensation from the U.S. for the family of Kuboyama. September 24, 1954.

First Aid Transportation of Patient. 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. Doctor giving a Tuberculin test to a child

When the sun is Shining, Nurse Trudi Trotter wheels convalescent patients around in the Hospital's grounds. August 16, 1941.

Hospital of the Community of the Nursing of the Protection of the Theotokos Sisters in Petrograd by Bulla, Karl Karlovich (1853-1929)/Private Collection/1914-1916/Photograph/Russia/Genre,History

Poll photo collection. Middle East: Jordan 1953. Maternity care in a refugee camp. 1953. Jordan

High angle view of a baby smiling in a crib

African American nurse is recording a medical history as it is reported by a woman holding an infant.

LT. Mayger, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Allain, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Hilliker, and Hospitalman Johnston monitor a young patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital. State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

Visiting Nurses. September 12, 1955. (Photo by Look Magazine).

U.S. Congresswoman Patricia Mikulski, D-Md., visits with a patient at the U.S. Air Force hospital as her escorts look on. Base: Bitburg Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Woman in bed trying to scratch her broken foot with a pole (EV007013_H)

Child in hospital bed, inscribed Sovery or Savery or Savory, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mother serving medicine to son

Sick princess flow to London Princess Dorothy, 4, daughter of the Exile Kabaka of Buganda, looks up at the smiling face of a nurse in an ambulance at London airport, Mach 21. She has been flown her to be treated at the children's hospital, great Ormond street, for the after effects of polynomials. She was met by her father, who said: "The doctors hope she will make a complete recovery". April 5, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photos)

Vintage Photograph. Doctor examining baby while mother looks on.

Anefo photo collection. Assistant doctors demonstrate Binnenhof extremely hours. September 1, 1988. Binnenhof, Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Command Volkstoneel Ben Groeneveld to dressing table (Michcels. October 16, 1952

Baldness - Baby Misc. January 28, 1955.

Vintage medical check-up: a caring doctor examines a young child using a stethoscope in a classic black and white photo.

Patient getting treatment from a dentist, New York City, USA

Son Feeding His Mother In Hospital Bed (AlzheimerS Patient)

Muhammad Ali getting his first facial in 1985 in Louisville Kentucky

Photo: 'contre-ponction'.

Stage Stars Visit Sick Children... -- Left to Right are, David Percy 3½ Colleen Haslem 5 Years, Rodney Reece 5 years.... The leading stars of the new play at the Palladium, "See How They Run", June Sylvaine who plays "Penelope" & Hector Ross Who plays "Clive" visited the Alexandra Childrens ward of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital today, chatted with the children and gave them a five minute course in the art of make up....May 17, 1955. (Photo by George Lipman/Fairfax Media).

Victorian Cyclist John Beasley, badly bruised and cut in a fall during the current Sydney-Melbourne road cycling race, lies in Lithgow Hospital awaiting attention. With him are his elder brother, Clinton, also a competitor, and manager-trainer Charles Jenkins. September 13, 1954.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor giving a demonstration of meat cutting before a group of FSA officials at a district meeting. San Angelo, Texas 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

An unidentified African American physician, assisted by a nurse, treating a baby born with a club foot at an unidentified public health clinic, circa 1945. 1945. Photographs, Publicity photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African American physicians, African American nurses, Public health , Clinics, Infant health services

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Unknown O.A. Medical care. Nurse looks into the photo camera lens, while connecting an Indonesian man. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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

Medical personnel listen to a lecture aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20), en route to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Souvenirs Will Tell Tania Something of Her Mother -- Tania photographed today in the isolation ward of the Strathmore.An eight-year-old daughter of a ***** heroine came to Sydney today bringing ***** treasured possessions the medals won ***** her dead mother.Girl is Tania Szabo, from London, who is on ***** way to Long Jetty, ***** Lakes.She is in the care of ***** grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Bushell, whose four sons earlier migrated to the Tuggerah area.Little Tania doesn't remember her mother, but she treasures the medals she won, and rightly so.They include the George Cross, Croix de Guerre, 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Medal, Defence Medal and Victory Medal. July 13, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Wounded bus disaster in Yugoslavia arrive at Soesterberg injured woman is waiting for the injured injured injured, (Mr. Mulder). June 29, 1974

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Semarang and surroundings. A colonel in a hospital. March 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

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

A child using leg braces and crutches in a French clinic for polio patients, circa 1950.

Nurse showing two newborn babies

Portrait of optometrist pointing to eye chart

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

A Child Is Born -- Ama smiles down at her first child. For the sum of five shillings, or free if the family cannot afford it, a West African mother can bear her child and receive the skilled attention of a modern maternity home at Korle Bu Maternity hospital, a few miles outside Accra, the capital of the Gold Coast. The story of Ama Santewah, seventeen-year-old wife of a West African soldier serving in ia is told in this picture series. Ama was originally the maid to an African midwife and

AFRAID OF THE DENTIST (EV001458_H)

Astronaut Weitz assists Astronaut Kerwin with blood pressure cuff. Skylab-2 mission duration 5/25/73 thru 6/22/73.

Marine Corporal John A. Gentry, a First Marine Division Photographer, presents a donation of $207 to a Vietnamese child at a hospital in Camp Jay K. Books, Vietnam. The money is given on behalf of the Marines from Service Company, Headquarters Battalion, First Marine Division, to support the improvement of hospital facilities at Tua Khanh Children's Hospital. Photo taken on March 21, 1970. (Defense Department Photo - Marine Corps)

Anefo photo collection. Consultation CAO hospitalization. Activator street. March 21, 1989

Doctor x raying patients chest (EV003980_H)

DEU, Germany: The historical slides from the times 80-90s . a.o. Hagen. Blood donation at the Red Cross 80s

Examining teeth of naval volunteer

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspection travel General P.L.G. Doorman (September-October 1946). Patient (emaciated) in a hospital. September 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Hospital ward

CHAD EVERETT in MEDICAL CENTER-TV (1969).

Photo collection Government information service. Medical school in Paramaribo. undated. Paramaribo, Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Gelderlander assignment; Vet Peter Klaus. April 14, 1988

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