Historical Medical Scenes

Black and white images depicting historical medical practice, including nurses with infants and consultations with patients, reflecting past healthcare environments.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Apostolic vicar mgr. M. Verhoeks speaks with a wounded or sick marine in Modjokerto. 24 March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Gas Drill at a London Hospital- Gas Masks For Babies Are Tested, England, 1940 Nurses remove babies from their gas respirators following a gas drill at a London hospital, 1940.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Apostolic vicar mgr. M. Verhoeks speaks with a wounded or sick marine in Modjokerto. 24 March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Apostolic vicar mgr. M. Verhoeks speaks with a wounded or sick marine in Modjokerto. 24 March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits a Goois children's hospital; Her majesty and Mr. Van Swol in patients. July 2, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Listening permit check. PTT Looking for non-indicated radio devices. November 12, 1946

The Queen Visits Hammersmith Hospital -- Patients in the Hammersmith Hospital get a real "tonic" as the smiling Queen walks through their ward. Patients well enough were taken out into the sunshine to watch the arrival of the The Queen and Her Majesty toured the wards to speak to those not well enough to be taken outside. H.M. The Queen this afternoon paid a visit to the Hammersmith Hospital, which is celebrating the 50th. Anniversary of it's foundation, in conjunction with the 20th. Anniversary of the inauguration of the Postgraduate Medical School of London University, which is housed at the hospital. June 24, 1955.

Male Nurses- Life at Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex, 1943 A male nurse at Runwell Hospital inserts a gag into a patient's mouth as the doctor (left) prepares to begin Convulsant Therapy treatment. A second male nurse prepares the electrodes.

Anefo photo collection. Food provision: Amsterdam Inland Host House. Nursing from sufferers to hunger edema in the Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam. Under the leadership of the Doktoren Scherpenhuysen and Haverkamp, everything possible is done to help these people go on the leg again. Teaching small amounts of food to be administered at a time .. June 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The work of the American Hospital in Britain, Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, Hampshire, February 1941 Dr C H Bradford examines the Roger Anderson apparatus fixed to a civilian patient's leg at Park Prewett Hospital in Basingstoke, February 1941. This apparatus, although rare in Britain, is very common in the USA.

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 Two nurses use the mobile X-ray machine to X-ray a patient on a ward at Guy's Hospital in London in 1941.

Mahatma Gandhi being examined by a medical doctor, 1945, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana in an eye in all (train disaster). Juliana with bed injured soldier. January 10, 1962

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DCL Visit Mainlayeral mushroom H.J.J.M. Van strails to Hospital Medan. Colonel van Straelen speaks with a patient. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

'Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au chevet des blesses', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Photograph of a child in a British hospital given a drink of milk. Milk is distributed in Britain after the needs of priority classes. Dated 1938

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DCL Visit Mainlayeral mushroom H.J.J.M. Van strails to Hospital Medan. Colonel van Straelen speaks with a patient. Right an almoid. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo by Josef Scaylea. Vintage Photograph. Patient recieving Hydro Therapy Treatment at a Connecticut State Mental Institution.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment: free people (Rotterdam) agent at boy in the hospital. April 9, 1959

Rehabilitation of British Soldiers From Normandy- the work of the Robert Jones and Dame Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK, 1944.

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (travel during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Air Port in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7 Non -Nonreted photo; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Madame Chiang Fans Wounded Soldier -- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Nationalist China Chief of State, fans a wounded soldier during her visit to a military hospital in Taiwan, Formosa, on October 10. The visit formed part of the National Day Celebrations.At right is Mrs. C.L. Chennault, wife of the former commander of the flying tigers. Mrs. Chennault accompanied Madame Chiang on the hospital visit. November 07, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. Nursing in the basement of the Sint-Joseph Hospital in Venlo during and after the struggle to the city .. March 1945. Limburg, Venlo, South of the Netherlands

London Schoolgirls In Country Camp -- Only children passed as medically fit are accepted at Sayers Croft Camp; but there in a well-equipped Sick Bay and two ICC resident nurses to attend to any cases of illness or slight injury that night occur. Sister Lodge is talking to Pat Soriven, in bed with a cold. Visitors are Jean Harrild and Joyce Rope (right), all of Downham Secondary School. August 20, 1948. (Photo by Camera Press).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Republic of Palembang (derailed train, Indonesian patient, wounded care). Palembang: wounded care in the military hospital. Surgeons at work. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Italy. Campania. Terme Di Agnano. Therapeutic Massage. 1920-30

Male Nurses- Life at Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex, 1943 A male nurse gives glucose to a patient undergoing Insulin Shock Therapy at Runwell Hospital. The glucose is being poured from a jug into a funnel and down a tube which goes into the patient's nose.

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

Major Swancutt Sees Son - Major W.P. Swancutt, operation Crossroads pilot, masked for baby's protection, and Mr. Swancutt look together for first time on their day-old son, Woodrow, Jr. July 13, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana in an eye in all (train disaster). Juliana with bed injured soldier. January 10, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Interior Slotervaart Hospital. June 21, 1976

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the utar fair Utrecht. Practice doll. September 2, 1952. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. St. Nicolaas and Zwarte Piet give blood for the Red Cross in the pressing room of Schiphol. December 6, 1968. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC General Doorman in Soerabaja 2nd series. General Doorman (right) visiting the naval hospital. In conversation with patients. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Vintage Photograph. Baby getting a cloth bath on changing table.

After two hours the patient, very nearly frozen, is lifted to the operating table. February 19, 1955. (Photo by Hubmann, Black Star).

Doctor and nurse make their rounds (OV2023_89)

High angle view of a person covered with bandage

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tangerang. Dentist (Lieutenant) inspects the teeth of a soldier. July 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Tangerang

World War I, a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, ca. 1918

10/01/1936. In the general hospital of Catalonia: the president of the generality visiting the wounded.

Residents in ophthalmology and students in ophthalmic nursing class closely together during their training periods. June 28, 1954. (Photo by Saul Zalind).

Anefo photo collection. Work by the War Foster Children Foundation in the field of children's care of N.B.-ers. Reporting the work of the War Foster Children Foundation in the field of children's care of N.S.P. October 1945

Mobile Club- the work of the YWCA Mobile Club Van in Britain, 1943 YWCA club organiser Kathleen Makower visits members of the ATS in hospital to bring them books. The patients are Private Gladys Cooper (right), a motor transport driver, and Private Edith Cox, a switchboard operator who is recovering from concussion.

Anefo photo collection. Patients in bed with sister in hospital above tij. June 24, 1987

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana in an eye in all (train disaster). Juliana with bed injured soldier. January 10, 1962

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspectorate General H.J. Curls by Indonesia. General curls in a military hospital in conversation with a patient. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Elsevier photo collection. Visit Queen Juliana Rotterdam. Visit St. Clarastichting, R.K. Hopital. queen admire baby baby room. June 3, 1953. Rotterdam, South Holland

Reformed Character This little boy is recovering from a plastic surgery operation. Through a childhood accident, he only had a "blob" for a nose, a deformity which had a psychological effect on his character. Now he has been given a new nose and has promised to be a good boy. June 30, 1948.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: March, 1938 A nurse at the Pennsylvania Hospital tending to a patient.

Doctor examining Young Boy, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, August 1939

Professor Cotton tests blood-pressure of Rogers, 65, after a strenuous hillclimb.Being tested to Blood Pressure by Prof. F. S. Cotton. December 24, 1947.

Wounded German soldiers aboard the Swedish hospital train.

Visit by Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, and Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld to the 'Bethesda' hospital in Silesia in January 1937, 1937 photograph Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam photographic support Silesia

Vintage Photograph. A boy sick resting in bed with mother checking fever while doctor looks over at him.

Vintage Photograph. Doctor visiting with elderly woman patient in bed.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; February, 1954. Dr. Jonas Salk gives an eight year old boy a trial polio vaccine at the Frick Elementary School in Pittsburgh.

Anefo photo collection. Foreign Red Crosses help Dutch hospitals. 27 February 1946

Anefo photo collection. Dutch hospitals Dutch staff in England. Dutch soldier visits sick friend. 1944. Britain

Britain Looks To Her Civil Defence A New Hospital Reserve Simple war nursing is pat of the Auxiliaries training, including children's nusing, for they may be called upon to do any nursing job in time of crisis. July 16, 1951.;Britain Looks To Her Civil Defence A New Hospital Reserve Simple war nursing is pat of the Auxiliaries training, including children's nusing, for they may be called upon to do any nursing job in time of crisis.

Care during the Four Days Marches in 1956.

A Sister Of Mercy Helps The Faithful -- This nun in the train at Cannon Street, London, is going to Lourdes with pilgrims on the way to the Holy Shrine. She is looking after some of the stretcher cases who are making the journey of faith. May 17, 1950. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).

Poll photo collection. Middle East: Jordan. Training to maternity caregers with a mother and her baby. January 1, 1953. Gaza, Jordan

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and nurse with migrant child in the FSA dental trailer at the FSA camp for farm families. 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

Anefo photo collection. Consultation agency for Infants Regenstel The Hague. June 21, 1954. The Hague, South Holland

Visit of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, and Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld to the 'Bethesda' hospital in Silesia in January 1937..

1930s CONCERNED MOTHER FATHER WITH DOCTOR CHECKING PULSE SMALL BOY IN HOSPITAL BED

Anefo photo collection. Schout at night and minister Moorman at Leiden Social Medical Service. November 3, 1949. Leiden, South Holland

Zhou Enlai condolences to injured representatives at the hospital. Pictured is Zhou Enlai in front of Ma Xulun's bed. Ma was a Chinese politician, activist, and linguist.

After a successful birth, she dresses Philip to take him home. January 22, 1953

Baby's Life Saving Cot Designed by Nurse at Middlesex Hospital, London, England, UK, 1945 Sister Mary Williams places a young baby into the new cot she has designed at Middlesex Hospital, London. The cot is a 'box' on a stand and is leaning at a 45 degree angle: it can be laid flat. An oxygen cannister can be seen on the lower part of the frame. The ends of the cot are removable so that the baby can be treated without being lifted out.

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

Coast Guardsman Back from African Campaign. Coast Guardsman Abraham F. Jessen of Washington Island, Wisconsin, is shown recuperating at an East coast hospital after he returned to this country on his troop transport manned by Coast Guardsmen that took part in the African campaign.

Resident and operation of an old people's home of the AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) on 07.03.1980 in Hagen, Germany, Europe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit by Professor Romme to Medan. Dr. C.P.M. Romme (in light shirt) when visiting military hospital in Medan. February 1947. Indonesia, Medan, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Anefo photo collection. Patients relocate special cars construction lead academic hospital; Patients hospital. December 17, 1985. Leiden, Zuid-Holland

Tom Mooney in the Hospital - Tom Mooney, famous Labor Leader, shown being attended by Nurse Gladys Hogan at Passavant Hospital here. The 56-year-old Californian is being treated for hemorrhages of a gastric ulcer which caused him to cancel a coast-to-coast speaking tour last week. Mooney said his Ailmet was a recurrnce of an ulcer he suffered while serving more than twenty years of a life term in connection with the San Francisco preparedness day bombing in 1916. He is recovering. October 19, 1939. (Photo by Wide World Photo).

The first three German prisoners of war pictured in bed in a British military hospital. They were members of the crew of a German bomber, shot down over Scotland in a raid on the Firth of Forth in October 1939. Date: 1939

An X-ray treatment is given to a severly wounded man at the Hospital near Prestwick airdrome, England. The man is receiving treatment at this hospital prior to being flown back to the States. As soon as he has recovered sufficiently to make the

Quads Progress:Mrs. Elizabeth Good handles two of her famous babies, Jennifer and Elizabeth, (left) for the first time while Sister Muriel Bright holds Bridget and Frances. This exclusive picture was taken in the Quads' new "Cooling Room" at South-mead Hospital, Bristol.The Bristol Quads, Elizabeth, Bridget, Frances and Jennifer, born to Mrs. Elizabeth Good, at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, on June 12 th., last, now have a "10 to 1 surety of surviving". This was stated by sister Muriel Bright who is in charge of the Premature Baby Ward. They have been taken out of their Oxygenaire tents and have been moved into a new "Cooling Room" with a temperature of 70-75 degrees, which means a new step in their lives. All four are being given human milk which is fed to them from bottles. This weekend, for the first time, their mother was able to assist the nurses in feeding her babies in their new cooling room. July 3, 1948.

New York, New York: January 5, 1926 New York City society girls are spending one day a week as volunteer nurses as part of their service to humanity. Miss Betty Nixon is seeing reading to a young boy at the Tonsil Hospital in Manhattan.

Second World War. Lazarett (probably in Holland). Wounded relatives of the German Wehrmacht in hospital beds, or sitting on chairs next to it

Anefo photo collection. Childcare. Childcare. January 28, 1946

Santough. Stage Beauty Salon, Gene O. Taffet. 1024-A Beacon St., Brookline , Beauty shops, Hairdressing. Leon Abdalian Collection

Anefo photo collection. One hundred years in the care home in Amsterdam. November 3, 1961. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Physical Medicine For Children -- Physiotherapist Mrs. Burks puts 2½-year-old Susan Smith through a programme of rehabilitation exercise. The child who has been suffering with infantile paralysis since she was six months old, is about to be discharged, entirely cured for all intents. January 12, 1949. (Photo by Camera Press).

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits the Emma Children's Hospital on the occasion of the 100th anniversary. Queen Juliana during the tour through the hospital. May 6, 1965

Beiger Acquittal. November 26, 1954.

Anefo photo collection. Queen visits national psychiatric institution in Eindhoven, Brother shows Queen Juliana a vegetable cutting machine. November 10, 1959. Eindhoven

Doctor makes a house call (278)

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.

New British Hospital For Tropical Leagues -- Recently, the long-established London Hospital for Tropical Diseases moved into new premises, where it has greatly improved facilities for the treatment of patients, research work and training of students.In the summer of 1951 the Hospital for Tropical Diseases added to its premises in Devonshire Place, London, by the opening of a new building in the grounds of St. Paneras Hospital. Here, with the most modern equipment and well designed wards, operating theatre, research laboratories and teaching unit for both undergraduate and post graduate students, patients from many parts of the world are treated with the latest British drugs. August 15, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Republic of Palembang (derailed train, Indonesian patient, wounded care). Palembang: wounded care in the military hospital. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Dentist giving examination to Young Girl at Dental Clinic, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1938

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 Stretcher-bearers carry a casualty into Guy's Hospital in London, as the 'tally man' (a role normally held by a student doctor) waits at the door to number each casualty as they are brought in. The tally man also notes down the number of the ambulance that brought the casualty to the hospital.

Anefo photo collection. Indian boy is being treated. June 11, 1946

Melilla, May 1917. The doctor Mr. Bonet cutting out pieces of skin from the arm of the doctor Mr. Domínguez, to graft them on the head of a seriously injured Riffian.

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