Historical Medical Scenes

Illustrations depicting various historical medical practices, including tooth extraction, doctor visits, and domestic caregiving in 19th-century settings.

Dr Tarnier's 'Couveuse pour Enfants' (= incubators) in use at La Maternite Hospital, Port Royal, Paris ; introduced in 1881, gas heating maintains temperature at 32o Celsius Date: 1884

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, A country dentist in his surgery extracts a tooth from a patient, c. 1660, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

At the cradle of a sick child unknown

Illustration depicting a country doctor, being watched by anxious family members, tending to a boy with concussion. Dated 19th century

The physician takes a man's pulse while the patient steals his watch. Oil painting by a Spanish painter.

A Visit to the Child at Nurse.

Medicine, anatomy, surgery, surgery of the shoulder, around 1700, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.

The sick, Gerrit de Broen (I) (Possible), after Jan Luyken, in or after 1695 - c. 1740 print A sick man is in bed. A woman and her son pray to his bed. A man sitting next to the bed takes care of the sick person with food and drink. Under the show a Dutch verse about the works of mercy. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving visiting the sick, 'aeger curatur' ~ one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy

Illustration showing Hannah Greener dying under chloroform: (England 1848).

Dr Tarnier's 'Couveuse pour Enfants' (= incubators) in use at La Maternite Hospital, Port Royal, Paris ; introduced in 1881, gas heating maintains temperature at 32o Celsius Date: 1884

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French physician who invented the Stethoscope. 1889. Laennec is shown listening to a patient's chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris. In his left hand he holds the tube which was the early form of stethoscope. Engraving.

A rural tooth-drawer in his surgery extracting a tooth from a patient. Lithograph by E. Pigal.

Caricature of Lodewijk Philip I, King of France as rapporteur, Honoré Daumier, 1834 print A rapporteur, recognizable by the posture and the umbrella as King Louis Philips I of France, takes the signamelent of an injured person who ended up in the hospital after one of the bloody riots of 1834. Paris paper political caricatures and satires. visiting the sick in hospital. after the street-fight

Canadian health officials vaccinating passengers on USA bound train after smallpox outbreak in Montreal. After an illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 26, 1885.

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French physician who invented the Stethoscope. Laennec is shown listening to a patient's chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris. In his left hand he holds the tube which was the early form of stethoscope

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), ministering to soldiers at Scutari, a suburb of Istanbul (across the Bosporus from Istanbul) during the Crimean War. She defied her wealthy family by adopting the lower class profession of nursing. With her education and social position, she reformed the profession and British treatment of sick and wounded soldiers. 1854. Lithograph by Robert Riggs, ca. 1930 with modern watercolor.

Dutch doctor is taking the pulse of a patient, on a table next to her is a urine bottle in a wicker basket, c. 1800, Holland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original..

IN THE KATHERINE HOSPITAL, BELGRADE, SERBIA, ENGRAVING 1876

Engraving depicting a private nurse tending to her patient. Dated 19th century

Medicine against syphilis; New inventions and discoveries; Nova Reperta. The brewing and administration of a medication against syphilis on the right is the tribe of the American medicinal plant guiacum through a servant in pieces minced. Other servants make a medicine from the bark pieces. On the left a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the looseness that is at the origin of syphilis. The print is part of a ninetical series about new inventions and discoveries.

Photo production of the painting The sick woman by Jan Steen, Anonymous, after Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1867 - 1880 photograph Amsterdampublisher: Paris paper. cardboard albumen print patient, sick person. physician, doctor Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

An engraving depicting a man who has suffered from syncope, a temporary loss of consciousness usually relating to insufficient blood flow to the brain. Illustrated by Francis Wilfred Lawson (1842-1935) a British painter. Dated 19th century

medicine birth childbearing on childbirth chair copper engraving by Abraham Bosse 17th century,

medicine treatment phycician treating a sick ear in the center: Saint Peter cutting off Malchus ear woodcut ""De remediis utriusque fortunae"" by Francesco Petrarca (1344/1366) printed by the so-called Petrarca-master Augsburg 1532 and later,

Union nurse writing a letter for a wounded Army of the Potomac soldier in a hospital bed. Print after a drawing by Winslow Homer, 1863 (BSLOC_2019_2_67)

Debora Wilkins ontdekt een baby.Debora Wilkins finds a baby in her bed in a dormitory. Another woman comes into hand with a burning candle.

Man mourns the death bed of his friend, Honoré Daumier, 1842 Paris paper caricatures (human types). deathbed

King William I visits the wounded in the military hospital of the Palace of Versailles, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

Woman to a man sickbed; See here! I still own her portrait. In a bed lies a man with a medallion in his hand and with a box on your lap. On the bed is a fold on a chair. Bottom right: bl. 116.

First administration of ether to a patient, Gilbert Abbott, about to undergo surgery for a tumor in the neck at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846.

Two nurses with patients lying in bunk beds, on a Russian ambulance train. Ink drawing, 1904.

Abolitionist Doctor John Doy and his Son Charles Doy in in St. Joseph Jail, Missouri. Unites States of America, drawing by Janet Lange (1815-1872)Adventures of a Kansas Abolitionist in Missouri, 1855. Story by Doctor John Doy (1812-1869) Le Tour du Monde 1862

An engraving depicting a sickly woman, most likely suffering from consumption, resting in bed. Dated 19th century

A woman in bed after giving birth. Engraving by J. Wood, 1830.

Princess of Orange visits the Soldaten Hospital in The Hague, Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803 - 1861 drawing paper. pencil brush visiting the sick in hospital. historical persons The Hague

A surgeon treats the foot of a male patient, Wounds and injuries, Surgical instruments and equipment, Treatment in the 17th, century, Netherlands, Historic, Digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.

An old physician taking the pulse of a seated patient; representing the sense of touch. Aquatint with etching by J.-B. Le Prince, 1775.

A surgical operation in the Ampitheatre at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, circa 1892

Dentist, Treatment of a distinguished lady by two doctors, Tooth extraction, Toothache, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Visit to the Nurse, c 1780 1790 Visit to the Nurse

A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar amidst a busy workshop. Etching by W. Unger after D. Teniers, the younger.

American dentist William Morton successfully uses sulphuric ether on Dr Warren's patient at Boston hospital Date: 14 October 1846

Prostitution, brothel, medicines for the treatment of syphilis, medicine, 1589, Holland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from 19th century original.

Death of the countess; Plate VI from marriage a la mode by William Hogarth (1697 ñ 1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist. the Countess has committed suicide by overdosing on laudanum. Her deformed (syphilitic) child is held up by her nurse to kiss her dying mother, a doctor shakes the dim-witted servant who procured the poison, and her father draws her rings off her stiffening fingers'

A young physician stirring a medicinal mixture for a female patient, the patient's mother reassures her, a urine flask is on the table. Engraving by A. Romanet after G. Ter Borch the younger.

An engraving depicting a doctor taking the pulse of a patient, while the surgeon approaches with a knife ready to bleed her and the apothecary with a syringe to administer an enema. Dated 18th century

A physician taking the pulse of and examining the urine of a sick old man, he is surrounded by his concerned family. Line engraving by O. van Veen.

The doctor Empaurger. / 17. (title registered) | Patients and doctors. (title of all)

A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Lithograph by N. Strixner after A. Brouwer.

surgeon dresses the wound of a grimacing patient, Wounds and injuries, treatment in 17th century Netherlands, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original..

The Mother's Blessing - A Mother Comforting her child, circa 1880

Injured recruit is back at his blind mother's house, wood engraving, about 1880

Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Coloured lithograph by J.D. Harding after E. Bristowe.

La visite du medecin (the doctor's visit)

Scultetus "Auctarium....": caesarian section

Der Genesende, Krankenbehandlung im antiken Griechenland, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4903958

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.

George Washington (1732-1799) lst President of the United States of America (1789-1797). Washington on his deathbed at Mount Vernon, 14 December 1799. After Julius Brutus Stearns (1810-1885) American painter.

Napoleon's death bed.

A French surgeon transfuses his own blood to save a dying patient Date: 1921

The anatomical lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Henri J. Zimmerman, After Rembrandt van Rijn, 1859 print Doctor Tulp shows a group of surgeons the bending muscles of the fingers of the corpse lying on the table in front of him. Amsterdam paper certification of death, autopsy, post-mortem examination. anatomy lesson

An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.

A young woman sitting at the bed of a dying woman. Reproduction of an etching.

Village Doctor, Jacob Gole, After Cornelis, 1670 - 1724 print In his practice, a village doctor treats a young patient on his head. This sits on a chair and holds a bowl under his chin. print maker: Amsterdamafter print by: Haarlempublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving barber; surgeon

The Taxidermist Doctor 1843 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Charles Émile Jacque

Illustration of French Nuns Aiding Injured Soldiers in a repurposed Manor. Dated 1914

George Washington (1732-1799) 1st President of the United States of America (1789-1797). Washington on his deathbed at Mount Vernon, 14 December 1799. After Julius Brutus Stearns (1810-1885) American painter.

Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.

Sick man in bed surrounded by visitors. .

Union nurses attending to wounded soldiers in a field hospital tent during the US Civil War. 1865 engraving by painting after Christian Schussele (BSLOC_2019_2_66)

The Dying Street Arab - A poor London boy comforted on his deathbed by the Minister reading from the Bible . Engraving, London, 1872.

Medicine against syphilis, Philips Galle (attributed to workshop or), after Jan van der Straet, c. 1589 - c. 1593 print Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis on the right is the trunk of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum being chopped into pieces by a servant. Other employees make a medicine from the bark pieces. On the left a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the debauchery that lies on the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a nineteen -part series about new inventions and discoveries. print maker: Antwerpafter design by: Florencepublisher: Antwerp paper engraving brothel. skin and venereal diseases: syphilis. medical examination, medical treatment. physician, doctor. patient, sick person. medicament, medicine. invention, discovery ~ science and technology

The Life of George Washington: Washington (1732-1799) First President of the United States of America (1789-1797) on his deathbed surrounded by family and friends. Hand-coloured lithograph c1853 after painting by J.B Stearns.

CHARCOT gives a demonstration at La Salpetriere, Paris Date: circa 1878

A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

The anatomical lesson of Nicolaes tulip. Group portrait of the Amsterdam surgeon at an anatomical lesson. The men sit around a table on which a corpse lies. Doctor Nicolaes Tulp gives instruction. He has opened the arm of the corpse and holds a bundle of arm muscles with a tongs, while making a demonstrating gesture with his other hand. In addition to Nicolaes tulip, the surgeon Jacob Blok, Hartman Hartmansz., Adraen Slabran, Jacob de Witt, Mathijs Turkey, Jacob Koolvelt and Frans van Loenen depicted.

Direct person-to-person blood transfusion, 1679. Artist: Unknown

Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) English nurse, in the hospital at Scutari with the doctor who is taking the patient's pulse. Crimean War 1853-1856. Engraving.

Dr Roussell of Geneva giving woman direct blood transfusion from volunteer - 7 Feb. 1882.

THE PHYSICIAN OF THE X-RAYS, depicts a physician using x-rays to repel Death, a skeleton wearing a shroud, as it approaches a nude young woman on an operating table. Ca. 1930 print by Austrian artist, Ivo Saliger (1894-1987).

A surgeon attending to a man's head. Oil painting by Pieter Jansz Quast.

An illustration depicting a scene within a ward of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Dated 19th century

Receiving day at the Foundling Hospital.

Direct person-to-person blood transfusion. After engraving from George Abraham Mercklino Tractatio med. Curiosa de murto et occasu transfusionis sanguinis, Nuremberg, 1679.

Children at bedside prayer, 1895, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Europe

Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, London

A woman recovering from childbirth; a physician; and three people. Coloured engraving, 183-.

The recovering child, The convalescent child, mother with sick child in the living room/The recovering child, The convalescent child, mother with an ill child in the living room, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original model from the 19th century, exact original date not known, subsequently colored

The physician of the x-rays by Ivo Saliger, 1894-1987, artist Published, between 1920 and 1940. Print showing a physician using x-rays to repel Death, personified as a skeleton wearing a shroud, as it approaches a young woman on an operating table.

An engraving depicting ladies giving a special Strawberry tea to the female ward in a workhouse. Dated 19th century

scene in a ward Date: 1871

Man at a doctor. In a departure, a doctor serves or operates the foot of a man. In the background a woman is at the fireplace.

Blood letting a woman patient Date: 17th century

Visiting the Sick after 1635 Anonymous. Visiting the Sick 385969

Foot operation. A surgeon performs surgery at the foot of a man in the presence of five people.

medicine, gynaecology, lifting of the womb after displacement, lowering or prolapse, wood engraving, from: Friedrich Eduard Bilz, New Naturopathic Treatment, Leipzig, Germany, 1902,

Evangeline Discovering Her Affianced in the Hospital; anout 1887 - 89; Oil on canvas Samuel Richards; American; 1853 - 93

Third Canadian Stationary Hospital, France, 1918 After Gerald E. Moira. Canadian field hospital during World War I

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