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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

A Barbershop. A hairdresser is lathering a customers chin, before shaving him. The man is holding a bowl himself, to catch the soap and hair. At the back of the shop, the barber - both surgeon and haircutter - is binding a patients shin, helped by an assistant. The shop is decorated with the mysterious implements of the barbers trade: bottles and pots, a distillers flask and a mounted fish.

'In The Hospital at Scutari', c1880, (1902). Artist: Unknown.

Interior with a surgeon attending to a chest wound. Oil painting by Gerrit Lundens.

A sketch of the receiving house of the Royal Humane Society. The society was founded in 1774 by Dr William Hawes and Dr Thomas Cogan, to save people from drowning by using resuscitation. Awards were given to rescuers using this technique to successfully save a life. Receiving houses were built near stretches of water and were manned by volunteers to resuscitate drowning victims. Date: 1844

dental extractor pulls a tooth from a patient tied to a chair in a rundown room while his worried wife looks on. Dental instruments and apparatus. Dentist and Patient, Dentistry, Dentist, c. 1650, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original..

Anatomical Lecture of Dr. Tulp, after a painting by Rembrandt, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown

A visit to the doctor, by Pierre Adrien Choquet (1743-1813).

A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.

A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, China () Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.

The Sick Woman, by Jan Steen, c. 1663-66, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. The doctor is a 'Quack', who has placed a bit of the patient's blue fabric in a brazier to make his diagnosis. The charlatan's old-fashioned attire characterizes him as a comic character (BSLOC_2016_3_201)

The Doctor's Visit, Frans van Mieris the Elder, 1657,

A sick child in bed has his castor oil medicine poured for him, France. Process print after J. Geoffroy, 1894.

An old man stands in a dark room next to a sleeping person in bed. The son of Lufwig XVI with Simon in prison, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

A surgeon treating a man's foot. Oil painting after a composition ascribed to Johannes Lingelbach.

Design for vignette of the Medical Medical Society. Design for a print.

Qui Hi alias Lieutenant Johnny Newcome on his death bed in prison, attended by his wife and child and the doctor's assistant. Coloured aquatint by Quiz after T. Rowlandson.

An illustration of a phrenologist examining his patient's skull; taken from an article disputing the validity of the science. Date: 1896

medicine vaccination of children in the countryside wood engraving by Rudolph Geissler late 19th century,

Interior of house in Biedermeier style with scene of sick old woman in bed with visitors, Vienna, Austria 19th century watercolour

Treatment. (registered title)

Saint-Lazare Prison: Dormitory Nurses

Base hospital, second stone , Hospitals, Sick persons, Health care personnel. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Judith Malmayns, the wicked plague nurse, contemplating the murder of Amabel Bloundel, which she accomplishes by puncturing the girl's neck with a needle infected with the plague. Plague of London (1665). Illustration by John Franklin (active 1800-1861) for William Harrison Ainsworth 'Old Saint Paul's', London 1855 (first published 1841). Engraving

The Sick Woman. Dating: c. 1663 - c. 1666. Measurements: h 76 cm × w 63.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan Havicksz. Steen.

Wounded soldier writes his last letter home from the Orange River Hospital, South Africa, Anonymous, Underwood and Underwood, 1900 stereograph Oranjerivierpublisher: New York (city) (possibly) cardboard. paper albumen print medical aid and nursing of the sick and wounded in a lazaretto. handwriting, writing as activity Orange River

Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right. Drawing. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper. Height: 298 mm (11.73 in); Width: 397 mm (15.62 in). Author: William Hogarth.

Brain surgery in the 16th century. A surgeon bores a hole in the patient's skull while several assistants perform various tasks. Family members watch as the surgeon bores a hole in the patient's skull. At are a child, dog and rat are near the surgeon. Woodcut in Giovanni Andrea Della Croces book on surgery, CIRUGIA UNIVERSALE E PERFECTA, 1573.

BROADMOOR ASYLUM - Male dormitory Date: 1867

MARY SEACOLE nurse during the Crimea War

Lecon d'anatomie du docteur Velpeau. print by Feyen-Perrin, Francois-Nicolas-Augustinm 1864. Anatomy lesson from Dr Velpeau to a group of doctors on a patient, possibly cadaver.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) British nurse and statistician, in hospital at Scutari 1 January 1855 writing letters for wounded soldiers of the Crimean War. After Barraud

Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry: for coughs and all lung diseases.

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846, Ernest Board, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Visiting a sick woman. Colored engraving of 'The Artistic Illustration,' 1892.

Galen (Claudius Galenus c130-201 AD) Greek physician. Physician to the gladiators at Pergamum tending the wounded in the amphitheatre. Artist's reconstruction published Paris, 1866.

Cartoon in the slowness in the Lower House, 1865, 1865 print Cartoon on the difficult establishment of legislative decisions in the Lower House. The House of Representatives as an expectant mother in the childbed. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 10, 11 March 1865. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper lying-in room

The Hospital Saint Louis, a room on the ground floor Ren�-Maurice Fath (born in 1850). The Saint-Louis Hospital, a room on the ground floor. Pencil.

A guest in a hotel bed finds that the blankets have shrunk, and wonders 'Why don't they use LUX ' Date: circa 1890

The pharmacist Abraham Francken.

A ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, London, 1871. 'The daily papers have filled many of their columns...with the painful details of evidence taken in the inquiry ordered by the Local Government Board (lately styled the Poor-Law Board) into the charges made by several medical gentlemen against the management of this hospital...the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital is not, as has been supposed by many, what is known as a voluntary hospital. It is nothing more or less than a pauper institution. It is a temporary building, erected under the powers given to the Poor-Law Board...to meet the epide

Paris prisons Sainte Pelagie; A detainee room

Red Cross Nurse striking match to light Wounded Soldier's Cigarette, Postcard by Revanche, France, 1914

Princess Louise at the bedside of a sick scarlet village child in Broich, reading a fairy tale (1789), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1776-1810, queen consort of Prussia, historical painting by W. Friedrich

Nurse, Karel Frederik Bombled, 1832 - 1902

Illustration depicting the suicide of Horace Wells (1815-848) an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide. Dated 19th Century

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, Ludwig van Beethoven on his deathbed, 1770-1827, German composer

A physician recommending some medicine to a young female patient. Coloured lithograph by H. Garnier after J.L. Canon.

A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick. Date: 1870

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving by D. Teniers.

EL HOSPITAL, O/L 57x75. Author: JOSE GUTIERREZ SOLANA (1886/1945). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

A cup of cold water - injured boy with bandage on his head

Visiting the Sick. De zieken bezoeken. Dating: c. 1646 - c. 1649. Measurements: h 75 cm × w 99 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Michael Sweerts.

A dentist pulling a tooth, c. 1620, Netherlands, Painting by Theodoor Rombouts, Historic, Digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original..

Sitz bath, patient protected by a blanket, vintage engraved illustration.

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Interior view of an operating theatre with two surgeons, one bleeding a man's arm and the other treating a man's back, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Disturbed inmate of Woking jail placed in the padded cell. 7th September 1889.

Crawling used as an exercise for the treatment of spinal curvature for patients up to the age of sixteen. It was administered three times a week for twenty minutes at a time, helping to strengthen the back. Date: 1908

A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Perkins Harnly, Dentist's Operating Room, 1935 1942 Dentist's Operating Room

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), in a romanticized portrait as the LADY WITH THE LAMP, at the Crimean War hospital for British soldiers at Scutari, Turkey, in 1854. British chromolithograph of 1891.

Female nurse watching embracing and kissing couple, illustration

Physician examining a specimen of patient's urine (16th-17th century) 19th century chromolithograph.

Pavlov in the Operating../ Reprin / 1888

Private George W. Lemon, from George A. Otis, Drawings, Photographs and Lithographs Illustrating the Histories of Seven Survivors of the Operation of Amputation at the Hipjoint, During the War of the Rebellion 1867

Doctor visits a sick girl; Don't you have some wool for me doctor. A doctor sits on the edge of the bed of a sick girl and puts his hand on her head. There are two girls in bed in the room. They look at the doctor.

Nurse Bringing A Bowl To A Sick Man Lying On A Chaise Lounge. Les Blesses De La Tuberculose: Comite Central D'Assistance Aux Militaires Tuberculeux. Auguste Roll, Artist, 1917

'The Lady with the Lamp', 1933, shows Florence Nightingale at Scutari, wear she established sanitary hospitals for British soldiers during the Crimean War in 1855 (BSLOC_2020_2_119)

The Vaccination, by Cosola Demetrio, 1894, 19th Century, pastel. Private collection. Whole artwork. Vaccination doctor women mothers newborn baby children waiting room.

A nurse by Yaroshenko, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1846-1898) / State Art Museum, Ivanovo / Russian Painting of 19th cen. / 1886 / Russia / Oil on cardboard / Genre / 60,7x44,3

William Harvey, Medical - History

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