Historical Medical Scenes

Classic black and white photos depicting various medical scenarios, including home births and hospital care, showcasing healthcare evolution over time.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit General Simons and Dr. Karamoy to Djokja. Dr. Karamoy (Secretary of State and Head of the Department of Health) in conversation with a Dutch soldier in a hospital bed. January 17, 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Yogyakarta

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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit General Simons and Dr. Karamoy to Djokja. Dr. Karamoy (Secretary of State and Head of the Department of Health) in conversation with a Dutch soldier in a hospital bed. January 17, 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Yogyakarta

1950s 1960s MAN TECHNICIAN ADJUSTING TENSION ON WOMAN PATIENT CHIN BRACE NECK TRACTION MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

Vintage Photograph. School Nurse takes female students height and weight in nurses office.

Close-up of a mature man with an ice pack on his head

Vintage Photograph. Female patient sits in pain in chair while dentist leans over with tool to inspect her.

Doctor Examining Boy's Throat, Reedsville, West Virginia, USA, Elmer Johnson, Farm Security Administration, April 1935

Dive courses at the Diving Medical Center (Mining Service De Helder), 1970. Lung capacity measurement

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Vintage Photograph. Dentist shows father and his son x-ray of sons teeth.

Vintage Photograph. A sick boy doctor and mother in bedroom getting checked out and smiling.

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At the Psychologist. A woman is lying on a couch in a psychologist, visibly hypnotized. Sweden 1954. ref 2776

American Red Cross Worker writing letter for American Soldier whose Right Arm is Disabled, Base Hospital 41, Saint Denis, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918

Vintage Photograph. Dentist fiddles with tools while waiting for next patient.

Anefo photo collection. Dr. Tetzner Amsterdam. November 23, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

LIKE PULLING TEETH (EV001472_H)

Vintage Photograph. Female patient holds up chart showing different teeth and the dentist points to one.

Two young women in rehabilitation after polio. They were both in Iron Lungs and are now feeding themselves with the help of special equipment. Rancho Los Amifos Respiratory Center in Hondo California. Dec. 27, 1954.

Vintage Photograph. Baby cries in high chair.

New Recruit Kemit Kuhn, 21 years old, of Bayard, West Virginia, being Examined by Army Doctor Major Seth Gayle, Jr., Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1940

Institute of Endocrinology Professor Tronko, treatment of metastatic cancers of the thyroid by radioactive iodine. Kiev, Ukraine, May 1995.

Male doctor with dark hair and mustache and stethoscope around neck sitting at desk opening drawer box

Photo of Pope Pius X at his deathbed August 20, 1914

Vintage Photograph. Man wearing doctor's smock inspecting a syringe in his hand

1930s DENTIST MAN SHOWS X-RAYS TO WOMAN PATIENT SITTING IN CHAIR WEARING BIB

Elsevier photo collection. Operation Siamese twins Leeuwarden. Dr. J. Haijkens, pediatrician overall guidance operation. 11 June 1954. Friesland, Leeuwarden

X-ray under review (OV_552)

Beauty care in the 1940s. A young woman is getting a tan in front of a sunlamp. The artificial sunlight from the home tanning equipments like this sunlamp gave a tan and was sometimes a treatment for illnesses. You would have to wear protective sunglasses when using it. Sweden 1940s. Photo Kristoffersson Y81-3

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Child possibly suffering from diphtheritic paralysis of the lips and tongue

Description: Lady Dorothy Macmillan visits Polio Clinic in Northern Rhodesia. Location: Lusaka, Chelinje, Northern Rhodesia Date: January 1960 africa

The Development of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery during the First World War

Checking blood pressure (EV007935_H)

Masked nurse pumping water at a field hospital during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Photographed in United States, September 1918.

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