Historical Medical Scenes

Illustrations depicting historical medical practices and interactions between patients and doctors, showcasing vintage healthcare themes.

A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
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The weaker sex Illustration shows a Red Cross nurse bandaging a wounded soldier on a battlefield. "Woman's place is in the home" Anti-Suffragists. 1914
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A doctor advising his patient to give up life's pleasures - though not to go so far as to get married. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1880.
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In the first picture, a doctor promises a patient a drive out in a car in a few days; the second picture shows a hearse solemnly departing. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
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A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
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A young homoeopath takes a cup to a sick young man hidden in his bed. Coloured photolithograph.
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At the dentist by Braekeleer, Ferdinand de, the Elder (1792-1883) Private Collection Flanders Oil on wood Painting Genre
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Illustration of Granville Sharp (1735-1813) an English abolitionist, inspecting the injuries of the slave Jonathan Strong. Dated 18th Century
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Edward Jenner (1749-1823) English physician, vaccinating a child against Smallpox using Cowpox serum. Artist's impression from 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 1901.
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The Infirmary of the Hospital of Charity ca. 1639 Abraham Bosse French. The Infirmary of the Hospital of Charity 387553
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Cartoon - A Life-Saving Device Rostap (1866-1949)
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Doctor Jukes pumping the stomach of Sir W. Curtis, several other aldermen wait to be operated on; representing the gross appetites of some civic dignitaries. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
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A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
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Pharmacist organising medicine in the dispensary at the London Hospital. Date: 1888
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Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) giving a clinical lecture at the Salpetriere. Engraving after painting by Andre Brouillet. Dr Babinski hold the hysterical patient, while Mme Bottard, the chief nurse, looks on. From 'Scientific American', New York, 1887.
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Cartoon illustrating how to use shaving clippers. Dated 20th century
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Boer War: four scenes from the first English hospital in Beira, Mozambique, depicting staff, patients and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs. Goodman. Pen and ink drawing by F. C. Dickinson after E. Watts.
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A boy with a huge sore wasting away the skin and muscle of the thigh. Believed to be a fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis after a slight wound infected by Vibrio vulnificus or Streptococcus pyogenes in seawater. A crutch on the bedside. Joiner, a boy of the British merchant ship Triumph. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Grant after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.
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162./The precaution in default. (Title registered (letter))
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Exhibition of hypnosis given by Irish physician using the pseudonym 'Dr Stanley' at the Hotel Metropole, London, under the auspices of members of the medical profession. Subject suffering from imaginary toothache. From 'The Illustrated London News' 1891.
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Types./20./The country doctor. (Title registered (letter))
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One of the wards of the hospital at Scutari - Interior view of a hospital ward at Scutari during the Crimean War, after the arrival of Florence Nightingale, circa 1855
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N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
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Treatment of patients in the electrotherapeutic cabinet of Jean-Martin Charcot, 1825, 1893, a French neurologist, at the Salpetriere in Paris, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, Treatment of patients in the electrotherapeutic cabinet of Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist, at the Salpetriere in Paris, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured
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Eugene Louis Doyen (1859-1916), eminent French surgeon, performing craniotomy with aid of doctor and nurse while nine physicians observe.
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William Fergusson (1808-1877) Scottish surgeon born at Prestonpans, East Lothian. Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (1836). Moved to London in 1840 as professor of surgery at King's College, London, and surgeon to King's College Hospital. Practiced 'conservative' surgery. President of the British Medical Association (1873). Cartoon by 'Ape' (Carlo Pellegrini - 1838-1889)) from 'Vanity Fair' (London, 17 May 1870). Chromolithograph.
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Medicine, Anatomy, Interior View of a Dentist's Office with Animal Participants, Monkey as Veterinarian, Dogs as Patients, c. 1750, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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A DAY WITH A DISTRICT SURGEON, CAPE COLONY
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Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Children's Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister. The Evelina became a branch of Guy's Hospital in 1948. It is now in a new building next to St Thomas's Hospital, opened in 2005. December 1882
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Dr. Isaac Thompson's famous eyewash, for all eye problems, ca. 1880, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a original from that time.
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A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (), c. 1905.
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A sick man and his doctor, Peru, South America. Travel across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 1848-1960 by Paul Marcoy (1815 - 1887) First stage, from Islay to Arequipa, Peru. Le Tour du Monde 1862
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Doctor and Patient 1899 Adolph Menzel German. Doctor and Patient 334927
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Guillaume Dupuytren, surgeon at Hotel-Dieu, showing a patient who had undergone an eye operation to Charles X, painted by a French school, 19th century.
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The President of the Republic, Felix Faure, visiting Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, 1895. Artist: Unknown
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Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florence's social standing to become nurses, she believed that it was God's chosen path for her. She trained in Kaiserswerth, near Dusseldorf and then returned to England to take a post at a Harley Street surgery. Florence Nightingale was sent along with 38 nurses to the Barrack Hospital in Scutari to assist with medical support. As she
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A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
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A surgeon tying a tourniquet around a man's arm. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
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Woman suffering from headache. From The Graphic, 11 June 1898.
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Surgeon-free surgery .... (Registered title (letter)) | Ads. Small Parisian posters. (Title of all)
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The Art of Medicine: A seller of quack cures in a medieval town offering bottles of his remedies. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Charlatan
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A hospital nurse pouring out a dose of medicine into a measuring glass. Her uniform of blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves, starched apron, bonnet and cuffs, is typical of that worn by nurses from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the 1960s.
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A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.
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A swollen lethargic patient with ten physicians seated around a table on which are axes and a halter; symbolising England's government and the need for reform. Engraving, 1756.
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This 1920 lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz, sheet 3 of the Berlin leaflets against usury, depicts a patient visiting a doctor, printed on Japanese paper.
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Oh Mamma! May I take the Menthol Inhaler with me please.. Oh Mamma! May I take the Menthol Inhaler with me please.
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The Art of Medicine: 18th century doctor paying a visit to a patient. He has arrived in a Sedan chair and is carrying bottles of medicine in his pocket and a syringe is tucked under his arm. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Physician
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Medical Times Gazette, "Suicidal Melancholy"
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William T. Gairdner, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine. Thomas Annan (Scottish,1829 - 1887)
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History of medicine. French doctor. 18th century. Illustration.
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patients bathroom in the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia
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Givanni Dr, Grabner-Marasehin, primary doctor of the civil hospitable, Born on July , died on November , Dr, Giovanni Grabner-Marasehin, Primar im zivilhospital, Kirchmayr, Lithographer
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Lavoisier explains to his wife the result of his experiments with air, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 - May 8, 1794) was a French chemist and natural scientist, lawyer, chief customs renter, economist and head of the French powder administration, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the period.
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Are you nervous or suffering from sluggish stomach A little shaking massage does wonders. English: Are You Nervous, Or Do You Struggle With Constipation YOUL FIND THAT THIS VIBRATING MASSAGE MACHINE WILL WORK WONDERS!
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Paris prisons health prison; The kitchen
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Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are extracted. Opium is the source of many opiates, including morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine, and noscapine. The Latin botanical name means the 'sleep-bringing poppy', referring to the sedative properties of some of these opiates.
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1969 Brooke Bond collectors tea card, depicting: Florence Nightingale, (1820 1910); English nurse, social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
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A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
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Ferdinand Edler von Leber, Rath and body surgeon of the wound medicine customer Doctor and through years of public professor , Ferdinand Edler von Leber, Body doctor, Unknown
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Browns Camphorate Saponaceous Dentrifice, Medical - Dental
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Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865. Print shows Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by large group of men, each identified on the print.
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Guy's Hospital: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving.
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Further observations on the variolae vaccinae or cow pox.