Historical Medical Procedures

Vintage photographs depicting various medical procedures, including x-rays and dental assistance, emphasizing historical practices in healthcare.

Two radiologists taking an x-ray of a patient

Vintage Photograph. Technician making a 24 hour radioactive iodine thyroid uptake for patient.

A Marva (Marine Women's Department) acts as a dental assistant, 1955.

Patient Prepared for Arteriography. A medium, which is opaque to X-ray, is injected into the main artery of the neck. By precise timing, it is photographed while circulating through the inner arteries of the brain, thus revealing the presence of tumors, abscesses, clots, malformed arteries, and other abnormalities of the inner brain. November 8, 1950.

Two radiologists taking an x-ray of a patient

Anefo photo collection. Marvaserie for Orn. December 1, 1949

Doctors In Operating Room Operating On Patient

Surgeons performing surgery in an operating room

MAJOR SURGERY (EV001537_H)

Vintage Photograph. Operation in progress at Charity Hospital in New Orleans LA.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The operating theatre attached to the sick bay of HMS KING GEORGE V. Two of the medical staff are carrying out a procedure on a patient laid down on the operating table.

Vintage photograph. Televising a stomach operation from operating room of Chicago West in Memorial Hospital

Two radiologists taking an x-ray of a patient

Vintage photograph. Surgeons in emergency room looking at each other

Blue Baby. March 31, 1950.

1960S Doctor And Nurse Checking On Elderly Male Patient In Hospital Bed

Bankers In Bones: Bone Mill -- This masked technician is processing a rib under sterile conditions. He is feeding the bone into a mill that grinds it into small bits, something like coarse meal. May 07, 1950. (Photo by Maurice Johnson, International News Photos).

Flying Doctors -- With the help of first aid workers in the village, she performs an operation within half an hour of Her arrival. Dr. Gorbunova is a surgeon and a specialist in obstetrics. Everybody in her family is either a doctor or research scientist. February 6, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Vintage photograph. United Nations in Korea - A team of Swedish doctors and nurses have organized medical services. Emergency operations are performed in field hospitals

Electric massage, passive exercise of joints after the massage in the Red Cross Hospital in Villach Photographer: 10. Armeekommando (Rohr).

Vintage Photograph. Male patient sits in chair while getting injection into mouth he has a pained expression dentist is in background to do the injection.

Nurse weighing Baby at Medical Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, August 1939

Vintage Photograph. Scrub nurse at work on instruments in Charity Hospital in New Orleans LA.

Life And Work Of A Hospital Matron -- The Matron (centre) calls in at the Operating Theatre to see a minor operation in progress. All nurses must take a course of Theatre training during the three years they are preparing for their final examination; a skilled team of trained nurses must be available at all times of day and night. Dr. Sava, an expert surgeon, also believed *****. March 12, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press).

Good Blood For Bad -- Doctors and nurses huddled over week-old Robert J. Jeffers, Jr., of Belleville, in a rare 2½-hour operation Friday night at Columbus Hospital in which they removed 90 percent of the infant's blood containing a fatal RH factor and supplanted new blood to save his life.Good Blood For Bad. Doctors and nurses huddled over week-old Robert J. Jeffers, of New Jersey, as 90 per cent, of the infant's blood was removed and new blood supplanted. February 9, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam Queen Juliana on Hospitaalschip "Castle of Staverden". 2 June 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 In order to save valuable time in the Operating Theatre at Guy's Hospital, the next patient is prepared for surgery and anaesthetised behind a screen in the corner of the Theatre, whilst an operation is in progress.

Vintage Photograph. Charity Hospital - Performing a left inguinal Hernia Plasty.

I.P. Pavlov with three colleagues operating on a dog in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1902/1903.

Bird Angermuller, a registered nurse, checks the blood pressure of a critically ill patient as RN Zoe Thorne stands by to administer oxygen, in the Intensive Care Unit at Gorgas Army Hospital. Base: Fort Clayton Country: Panama (PAN)

British Medical Services in the Second World War Medicine at Sea: Surgery in progress on board HMS RENOWN. Marine Thomas Quinn, of Glasgow being operated on successfully for appendicitis.

Vintage Photograph. Hermann Biggs Memorial Hospital, Ithaca, NY operation room using Concentra Lite

Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'An operating theatre in the San Fernando Hospital, which has the latest available theatre equipment'. Photograph No.: D. 79103. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1955 Mar caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

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

Poll photo collection. Herman plays a doctor who takes care of the resin at Willy and in the background. Drug bottles. 1931

WESTWORLD (1973), directed by MICHAEL CRICHTON.

Vintage Photograph. Head-down position X-Ray for spinal exams.

View of operating room from above (EV003151_H)

Health clinic examination, migratory labor camp, Harlingen, Texas, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, February 1942

How Blood Pressure is Tested - Artist's drawing of a patient's arm showing the attachments for measurement of blood pressure. A hollow cuff surrounding the arm is inflated automatically at intervals from an external air source. A microphone is located over the brachial artery to detect sound pulses. These sound pulses are amplified by an electronic circuit and made to actuate a valve and gauge device which indicates and records the pressure in the system at the time it is equal to the patient's blood pressure. Changes in pressure following the administration of drughs affecting blood pressure are easily followed. March 23, 1955.

1960s SURGEON AND SUPPORTING STAFF PERFORMING A THORACIC OR ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN A HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM

ENFERMO Y ENFERMERA.

Nervous male patient getting treatment from a male dentist

1950s ANONYMOUS SURGEONS DOCTORS NURSES ATTENDING SURGERY IN HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM ALL IN STERILE GOWNS CAPS MASKS

Factory Clinic- Health and Welfare Facilities at a British Factory, 1943 A female dentist injects a patient during a consultation in the factory clinic.

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Operation in the Borromeus hospital in Bandoeng. April 2, 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Patient and dentist inside early 1900s dental office.

Vintage Photograph. Young boy sits in dentists chair while dentist has tool in his mouth inspecting him.

***** To Civil Nursing Reserve Get Their First Lessons -- Members of the Civil Nursing reserve in their smart Blue-Grey uniforms are given practical instruction by a medical man who uses a dummy as "Patient".Recruits are pouring in following the appeal for 100,000 nurses for the Civil nursing reserve. Their duties in the event of war will be to care for casualties and evacuated children. New recruits are now receiving their first instruction at the Red Cross Society's Headquarters in Grosvenor Crescent. April 20, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).

Woman getting beauty treatment

Vintage Photograph. Charity Hospital in surgery at New Orleans Louisiana.

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Operating room in the hospital of Penang. 1946. Malacca, Malaysia, Penang

Factory Welfare Work- Welfare at Pilkington's Glass Factory, St Helens, Lancashire, England, UK, 1944 The Sheet Works Surgeon operates on the leg of a female war worker in the Operating Theatre of the Sheet Works Surgery, probably at the Pilkington glass works in St Helens. The Sheet Works Surgery adjoins the main Works building and employees can seek treatment from the medical officer or nurses at any time.

Anefo photo collection. 1970 World Nature Year. Theo Kley operates "Santa Claus". January 1, 1970

Baby being X-Rayed, Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, March 1942

SRE Buildings. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

1970S Female X-Ray Technician Working With Senior Male Patient Man Woman

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

Vintage Photograph. Medical team performing surgery in a modern operating room.

Nursery School- Life at the Old Manor House, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, 1944 A young child has her teeth cleaned for her by one of the nurses at The Old Manor House, Wendover.

Description: Hong Kong under the microscope. An operation in progress at the Queen Mary Hospital. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969

Dive courses at the Diving Medical Center (Mining Service De Helder), 1970. Lung capacity measurement

Dr. Antonio Cabeza, Registered Nurse Cathy Othon, and an emergency medical technician administer care to a patient in the Emergency Room at Gorgas Army Hospital. Base: Fort Clayton Country: Panama (PAN)

Vintage Photograph. Doctor taking blood pressure from patient.

Invasion Surgery. Within sight and sound of the battle for Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls, a combat surgery team aboard a Coast Guard manned assault troop transport readies a wounded soldier for immediate treatment. Public Health Service Surgeon Dr. Griffith, of Sheffield, Ala., dries his hands, as Chief Pharmacist's Mate Lyle D. Harrison, of Detroit, Mich., makes the soldier as comfortable as possible.

Vintage Photograph. A man in barber's chair smiling.

The X-ray room in the medical spaces aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Traffic policemen. first aid course. Italy 1964.

Two Female Junior League Members with Infant at Children's Hospital, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, March 1930

Female patient getting treatment from a dentist

Operation, Herrin Hospital (private), Herrin, Illinois 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Operation at the U.S. Army Camp Hospital in Winchester, England during World War I. Anesthesia is administered by dripping ether or chloroform onto a cloth over the patients nose. 1918.

New method which has been saving lives of new born babies, is demonstrated by a doctor and nurse at the King George V Memorial Hospital. The oxygen tube is in the baby's nose. September 29, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Television game "Memorandum of a doctor", Broadcast 27-10-1963 in the middle Alex van Roijen (surgeon). October 18, 1963

Patient in iron lung in hospital

Photo collection Government information service. Hospitals, operating rooms, doctors. undated

Male optometrist examining the eyes of a patient

Anefo photo collection. Dr. From Beran to the device. January 18, 1966

The dentist is also part of the diving medical center (DMC) of the Mining Service (MD) in Den Helder, April 1991.

firenze, ambulatorio dell'istituto casa dei ciechi, 1920 1930

Vintage Photograph. Doctor taking pulse of woman in bed.

Anefo photo collection. Press conference in connection with the official opening of the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam. V.l.n.r. Professor Breur, Dr. C.R. Post (Medicine Director) and Dr. Sindram at a cobalt radiant. October 29, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Buddlercentrale of the Dutch Red Cross. Nurse at premature baby in a cuveuse, presumably in the Saint Anna pavilion, the maternity clinic of our dear Lady Gasthuis in Amsterdam. May 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Empty dentist's chair in an examination room

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

MAJ (Dr.) Steve Humphrey of Brook Army Medical Center, prepares Kathy King for a heart transplant. Base: Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Operation (EV004140_H)

Anefo photo collection. Slotervaart Hospital; Couveuse department. December 29, 1975

Blood Pressure reading is surest indication of how a patient is faring under surgery and anaesthetic, particularly in a long operation. March 22, 1947.

Anefo photo collection. The fifth division to La Courtine. Medical test. July 9, 1962

Dr. William J. Buck examining Child with Camp Nurse assisting in Clinic, Okeechobee Migratory Labor Camp, Belle Glade, Florida USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, June 1940

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

Medical Series: Inserting tube to drain wound. February 14, 1944. (Photo by Official U.S. Navy Photograph).

Surgeons performing surgery in an operation theatre.

SENIOR AIRMAN Harry Jeffries connects an EKG (electro-cardiograph) wire to a patient's chest in order to record his heartbeat. Base: Yokota Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)

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