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Historical Medical Scenes

Classic illustrations of medical practices from past centuries, depicting surgeries and treatments in detailed, vintage styles.

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Surgery of the Shoulder, c. 1700, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

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

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Surgery of the Shoulder, c. 1700, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.

The village surgeon; Various genre scenes. A surgery makes an incision in the head of a man who sits in front of him. Bystanders watch.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Lithograph after D. Teniers, the younger.

Figures around a sickbed and a doctor who connects a woman, Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne (II), 1714 print A doctor connects the arm of a woman, while in the same departure three figures have joined a sickbed. Symbol on the need for exposing the soul to become whole again, just as an arm is bare alone. Haarlem paper etching / engraving physician, doctor. examination, diagnosis; physician speaking with patient. applying dressing or bandage. screen, folding screen. sick-bed

A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE EAST END, LONDON, UK, 1876: HER MAJESTY VISITING THE WARDS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL

Man at a doctor, Cornelis Visscher (II), After Adriaen Brouwer, 1638 - 1670 print In a departure, a doctor takes care of the foot of a man sitting in a chair and lets his foot rest on a block of wood. The patient pulls a paired face. A second man observes the treatment from behind his table. In the background a man in a storage space. paper etching / engraving physician, doctor. medical examination, medical treatment. care of hands and feet. pain

A sick man lies in bed. A woman and her son pray at his bedside. A man sitting next to the bed attends to the sick man with food and drink. Below the scene a Dutch verse about the works of mercy., Caring for the sick The works of mercy (series title), print maker: Gerrit de Broen (I), (possibly), print maker: Willem de Broen, (possibly), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, in or after 1695 - c. 1740, paper, etching, engraving, h 308 mm × w 204 mm

An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.

A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.

Killed man got inside a room. A death committed man is in the doorway of a dedist. The people in the room may be family members, scare his presence.

Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Doctor comes into the room of a sick woman to offer his services, 1850, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Doctor comes into the room of a sick woman to offer his services, Germany.

The flooded colliery in Troedyrhiw, in hospital meeting of George Jenkins and his family, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original, original date unknown

Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record date not stated, doctor comes to the room of a sick woman to offer his services, 1850, Germany

The dentist.

Nicolas Rene Dufriche, Baron Desgenettes (1762-1837) treating sick and wounded in Egypt. Desgenettes was chief physician to the French army in Italy circa 1794 and in Egypt in 1798, also at Waterloo. Fell from favour on restoration of Louis XVIII. Chief physician of Les Invalides in 1832.

An ophthalmic surgeon operates on the eye of a patient who is strapped to a chair. Line engraving.

Johnny with other patients in quack doctor Anodyne's waiting room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

Doctor performing an ovariotomy, the removal of one or both ovaries, using anesthetic and antiseptic steam spray. In the 1880s doctors sometimes removed of healthy ovaries to treat menstrual madness, neurasthenia (a combination of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood), and nymphomania. 1882.

THE RECENT FIRE IN CHICAGO, A SCENE IN THE FIREMEN'S BEDROOM

Josef Danhauser pencil drawing depicting a notary drafting a will in a hospital camp, showing figures, documents, and the camp environment.

A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.

A surgeon dressing the stump of a patient's recently amputated leg. Engraving, 1738.

Man at a doctor; Vre, Seca, Purga, Cura Chirurge! Dolori. In a departure, a doctor serves or operates the foot of a man who sits in a chair and lets his foot rest on a block of wood. The patient draws a pained face. A second man observes the treatment behind his table. A man in a storage space in the background.

Alphonse Legros, Field Hospital (L'ambulance) Field Hospital (L'ambulance)

A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.

Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Etching by C. Visscher after A. Brouwer.

Miraculous healing from Jeske Klaes.

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

Thomas Spencer Wells (1818-1897) British gynaecolotist who perfected ovariotomy, performing an operation on a patient anaesthetised by chloroform, c1870.

Operation on the foot for teaching purposes by a doctor in the Middle Ages many students are present, c. 1650, Holland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

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

Midwife shows a father's newborn child, Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1836 print Paris paper the new-born child. midwife, 'accoucheuse'. father and child(ren), man and child(ren) (family group)

A dentist reassures a terrified patient. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.

The caption for this 1853 illustration of a novel by Sir Walter Scott reads: Waverley Novels - St Ronans Well: Is Life Gone - is every spark extinct he exclaimed eagerly to a country surgeo, a sensible man, who had been summoned from Marchthorn in the course of the night. The medical man shook his head. Tyrrel rushed to the bedside, and was convinced by his own eyes, that the being whose sorrows he had both caused and shared was now insensible to all earthly calamity. He raised almost a shriek of despair, as he threw himself on the pale hand of the corpse, wet it with tears, devoured it wi

An engraving depicting a doctor taking the pulse of a patient during a home visit. Dated 19th century

Sick bed. A doctor visits a sick woman on her sick bed. Next to the bed is a PO. A dog barks to the doctor. There are four people behind him, one of which looks into a glass.

Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer, Joshua Cristall, 1768-1847, British, between 1820 and 1822, Brown wash and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 x 15 1/2 inches (33 x 39.4 cm), bed, boots, breeches (trousers), caps (headgear), chairs, coats, illness, illustration, L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-1735), literary theme, men, pelerines, picaresque novel, pillows, sheets (bed coverings), stockings, stools, women

A physician checks the pulse of a patient in a hospital. Pen drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Colour aquatint by A. Schlicht, 1788, after A. Brouwer.

An itinerant surgeon extracing stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), in the background is a manic woman who is waiting for the operation. Photogravure, 1926, after T. de Brij after M. de Vos.

Patients arrive in the physician's office in 17th century Netherlands. Two handicapped men and a woman with a tumor on her neck approach a physician as his dog barks at the afflicted visitors. Title page of physician, Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel's, OBSERVATIONUM RARIORUM MEDIC, 1687.

At the doctor. An old woman stands next to a doctor who keeps a liquid in a glass ball in the light. The doctor is sitting at a table with books. Right behind three young people work at a table.

At the deathbed of Queen Louise, Louise of Prussia, room, king, doctor, children, woman, dying, pray, history, 19th century, historical illustration 1894

History of medicine. Chloroform anesthesia. Engraving, 19th century.

Mgr. After such a long and so big indigestion, the medicines of the nation order the cruise. (IT)

Man at a doctor, Wallerant Vaillant, After Adriaen Brouwer, 1720 - 1772 print In a departure, a doctor takes care of the foot of a man. In the background is a woman at the fireplace. Amsterdam paper physician, doctor. medical examination, medical treatment

A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.

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.

Emile Roux treating a sick child by administering an abdominal injection. The procedure could apply to Diptheria to Croup .(Pierre-Paul) Emile Roux (1853-1933) French bacteriologist, assistant to Louis Pasteur. In 1894, with Yersin, discovered the non-to

Baby incubators in use at the Port-Royal Maternity Hospital, Paris, France, which was under the direction of Etienne (Stepahne) Tarnier (1828-1897), French obstetrician. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 8 March 1884). Medicine. Obstetrics.

Gil Blas, practising under Dr Sangrado, meets Dr Cuchillo at the grocer's bedside, Gil Blas has learned the doctor's trade from a charlatan and within a short time brings his patients to death by repeated bloodletting and prescribing the drinking of hot water, 1820, after a painting by Joshua Cristall, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Woman watches with a sick person. In a room, a woman watches with a sick or dying, which lies in the bedside. The woman hides her face in a handkerchief. Next to her is a sloping book on a stew.

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

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, A doctor administering medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon amputating the leg of a seated patient under the supervision of a physician, 1646, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.

Mental patients, 19th century, Matthias Claudius

A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.

Surgeon and his assistants, before the introduction of anaesthetics, prepared to perform an amputation at the shoulder. Surgeon stands, left, next the assistant surgeon (behind patient). An assistant on the ground supports the arm to be removed, and the two figures standing on the right support the patient. Bell's comment on this operation was It requires decision and rapidity: and the knife is to be handled more like a sabre, than a Surgeon's scapel. Engraving from Illustrations of the Great Op

Doctor checks urine while a woman puts an extra blanket over a sick, Anonymous, Hans Weiditz (II), 1514 - 1532 print Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing examination of urine. nursing, tending the sick

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Reproduction after a painting by T. Chartran.

Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Hampshire: Queen Victoria visiting the wounded. Process print after R.C. Dickinson after W. Hatherell.

Death bed of a loved one. A girl lies sick and dying in a bedside. Her husband holds her hand and buries his head in the blankets. A dog is quiet next to the bed. A crucifix is hanging on the wall of the bed.

German doctors observe a demonstration of hypnotism at Munchen Date: 1893

Exciting the cubital (forearm) nerve in a hypnotised subject at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris Date: 1887

Women ironing and hanging their washing to air: St Pancras Public Baths and Wash-house. Local women took their washing here where they were provided with better facilities than their own crapped accommodation offered. 1846.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe (22 May 1828 to 20 July 1870) was a German ophthalmologist, Royal Prussian Privy Medical Councillor and full professor of ophthalmology, which he had reformed, at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. Historical, reproduction of a model with a scene from the 19th century.

Deathbed of Napoleon, Abraham Vinkeles, 1840 print Amsterdam paper etching / engraving deathbed

Mud bath treatment at a Spa at Acqui Terme, a city and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the province of Alessandria. Date: circa 1910s

The Doctor Overcame, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, undated, Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued white laid paper, Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 13/16 inches (10.6 x 14.8 cm), chairs, doctors, drinking, drinking vessels, food, genre subject, jug, medicine, men, sleeping, table, woman

Le Docteur John Bull abondonnant son malade.. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1864. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

A dentist in his surgery with patient at Camp Douglas. Pen drawing by C.W. Law, 1862.

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

medicine treatment ""Von der Krankheit der Schienbeine"" (About the diseases of the shinbones) woodcut coloured from Francesco Petrarch ""Trostspiegel"" (Comfort mirror) by the ""Petrarch Master"" Augsburg Germany 1532,

Surgeon & Assistant at the Bed of a Bleeding Patient 1497 Hieronymus Brunschwig (15th C.) Woodcut print

Patient and Doctor by Jan Havicksz Steen, Oil on canvas, circa 1660, 1626-1679, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 62, 5x51

A surgeon treats a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon examines a patient in a surgery, Surgical instruments and apparatus, Medical bottles, Treatment in the 17th century, Netherlands, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Medicine, anatomy, surgery, The shelves in the surgery are full of bottles, a doctor pours a liquid called sagesse into the mouth of a patient sitting on a dresser. Another practitioner holds another patient on a wooden stretcher while his head is placed in a furnace from which all follies, vices and fantasies are exorcised. Mental illness, psychology, psychiatry, c. 1600, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original

A tooth-drawer operating on a man, with a woman and child looking on. Oil painting, ca. 1900, after Andries Both.

Three midwives attending to a pregnant woman circa 1554.

medicine physicians physician with urine glass and pharmacyst with mortar copper engraving by Israhel van Meckenem circa 1500 private collection,

The surgery. A surgery makes an incision behind the ear of a man sitting in front of him. Head, arms and hands of surgery and head of man have been punctured.

A physician taking the pulse of a woman who is touching her chest and reading a devotional book. Colour photolithograph after F. van Mieris, the elder.

Amputation of leg without anaesthetic. Surgeon uses bow-saw to remove leg blow the knee while his assistant holds the foot. In background a man with well-padded fist stands ready to render the patient unconscious. From 'Veldt Boeck van den Chirugia Scheel-Hans' by Hans van Gersdorff (Amsterdam, 1593). llustration 1517. Woodcut.

Physician Visiting a Sick Girl by Gabriel Metsu, oil on canvas, 17th century, 1629-1667, Russia, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage

History of medicine. Chloroform anesthesia. Engraving, 19th century. Colored.

A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Lithograph by J. Woelffle after A. Brouwer.

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), French chemist and microbiologist, supervises a vaccination against rabies in his laboratory. Date: 1886

Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Two surgeons treat two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeon's utensils hanging from the ceiling, c. 1700, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

A baffled doctor taking the pulse of a love-sick young woman, her maid slips a billet-doux secretly into her hand. Coloured lithograph.

Distribution of Christmas gifts to poor children in hospital. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 23rd November 1900.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, after his capture, is examined by doctors in Melbourne Gaol Hospital; he is badly bruised from his suit of homemade armour Date: 1880

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918). CLINIC IN POITIERS STATION (1915). Nurses attending to wounded soldiers. Colored engraving.

The sick woman.

The Consultation. A mother visits a doctor's office with her two children. The office indicates the doctor's use of pharmacology, with bottles of medicine, herbs bundles drying, a balance scale and mortar and pestle at lower right. Lithograph by Edouard Girardet, ca. 1850.

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