Surgical Procedures in History

Archival images of surgical operations during wartime, capturing the intensity and importance of medical care in dramatic settings.

1970s NURSE WEARING CAP TAKING A PATIENTS

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The operating theatre attached to the sick bay of HMS KING GEORGE V. Two of the medical staff are carrying out a procedure on a patient laid down on the operating table.

American Hospital in England, 1943 Surgeon Lieutenant Kenneth F Maclean operate on Private Louis Mercurio from New York in the operating theatre at the American Hospital. The anaesthetist is Miss Wooliver. Several other doctors watch the proceedings.

Activities (treatment in sick agent) of crew members laid down while making a report on board cruiser Hr.Ms. De Ruyter (C 801), 1955.

Dental Surgery on board HM Hospital Ship AMARAPOORA at Scapa Flow, 11 September 1942. The well equipped Dental Surgery on board HMHS AMARAPOORA at Scapa Flow. A patient is sat in the dentist chair whilst two of the staff carry out a procedure.

Jobs at the pharmaceutical production Medice on 12.02.1980 in Iserlohn, Germany, Europe

1970s NURSE WEARING CAP TAKING A PATIENTS

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, mother Frances Yokoyama, baby Fukomoto, Ansel Adams

Cancer - operation. August 8, 1949.

Poll photo collection. Herman plays a doctor who investigates Willy pop. 1931

St. Lo's New Hospital, Inaugural Ceremonies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo essay in a retirement home at Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon, France. Nurse.

St. Lo's New Hospital, Inaugural Ceremonies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a routine polysomnography on a patient suffering from sleep apnea. This routine polysomnography evaluates the comfort of a patient treated with a respiratory aide device and the benefits of the treatment. 7pm: setting up the specific equipment, autonomous device linked to the patients own mask.

1950S Doctor Nurse Patient Bed Hospital Sick Illness

Anaesthetist. March 30, 1949.

Everyday life at the General Hospital in October 1981, Germany, Europe

Medical personnel drawing drugs for an injection

Everyday life at the General Hospital in October 1981, Germany, Europe

Vintage Photograph. Charity Hospital-Performing a Left Inguinal Hernia Plasty.

1970s DOCTOR AND NURSE MONITORING PROGRESS AND VITALS OF MIDDLE-AGED MALE PATIENT IN BED IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Vintage Photograph. Performing a Porto Cavae Shunt at a Charity Hospital in New Orleans Louisiana.

Anefo photo collection. Series from Veterinarian Dr. Westerman. March 5, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Dr. Municipal Nursing Home Sarphati house. 13 February 1979

Close-up of surgeons performing open-heart surgery

Heart surgery performed in the 1950s.

Anefo photo collection. Zuiderzeeziekenhuis in Lelystad is a trial with hundred and twenty volunteers; "Patient" in the operating room. August 17, 1982. Flevoland, Lelystad

A dentist from the central sickness (CZB) in the Marine Barracks Willemsoord (MKWD) in Den Helder examines the teeth of a patient (July 1989).

Interior of the operating room of a hospital

Group of surgeons performing an operation in an operating room

10/01/1962. One of the operating rooms of the new Madrid Clinical Hospital.

Vintage Photograph. Doctor prepares to draw blood from fontanel of new born child for blood test.

Everyday life at the General Hospital in October 1981, Germany, Europe

Medical students watching a surgical team performing surgery

Dentist examining boy's teeth

Vintage Photograph. Operation in progress at Charity Hospital in New Orleans LA.

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

Closeup on caucasian man's hands pulling back rubber band on his right thumb about to flick

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2) Michelle Gibbons gives ultrasound treatment to a Marine with shoulder problems. Gibbons, a physical therapist, treats 16 to 40 patients each day. Base: Marine Corps Air Station,Iwakuni Country: Japan (JPN)

A female dentist examines the teeth of a corporal in the central sickness (CZB) of the Marine Barracks Willemsoord (MKWD) in Den Helder (July 1989) ..

Medicine doctor hand working with modern digital tablet computer with stethoscope as medical network concept,black and white

Mother nursing baby on table

Vintage photograph. male surgeon under exam light

Surgeons washing before procedure at Hanoi Pediatrics Hospital,

Doctor performs a dressing, policlinico di milano

Playing cards in the bed

Poll photo collection. Women's hair salons, customers, hairdressers, permanents, EFA-Lock. November 1950

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Accident hospital, th, Webergasse -, operating room

1950S Two Doctors And Nurse Examining X-Rays

Accident hospital, th, Webergasse -, X-ray room

St. Lo's New Hospital, Inaugural Ceremonies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1970s AFRICAN-AMERICAN DENTIST SHOWING DIAGNOSTIC DENTAL X-RAYS TO FEMALE CAUCASIAN PATIENT

Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Maryland, operating room ca. between 1918 and 1928.

Anefo photo collection. Vierling Verheul in Couveuse in General Hospital in Woerden. March 7, 1969. Utrecht, Woerden

Diving medical center km, Den Helder. The modern helmet for compressed air divers.

A physical therapist assists a patient exercising on a therapy table in the exercise room at the Sewells Point Branch Clinic. Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Stitching wound after operation. September 27, 198.

A pharmacy specialist fills prescriptions using the Baker Cell Medication Counting and Dispensing Unit at the U.S. Army Hospital, Camp Kuwae. Base: Camp Kuwae State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a polysomnography exam over night. Polysomnography consists of recording, during sleep, several physiological variables in order to determine certain sleep disorders. 7.30pm: setting up the specific equipment , recorder and transmitter of data.

Inspection in the Dive Medical Center (DMC) of the Mining Service (MD) in Den Helder, April 1991.

Bankers In Bones: Beneficiary -- Betty Shotwell was hard hit by infantile paralysis. Hers was the type of case that confines the victim to a wheelchair, frequently for life. Betty underwent five spinal operations, in three of which bones from no less than nine persons were used. A doctor is using an X-ray plate here to explain to Betty just what was being done. May 07, 1950. (Photo by Arthur Sasse, International News Photos).

State Railways, SJ Bo5b. Children's coup.

Bankers In Bones: Bone Meal -- This is how the ground bone looks after it emerges from the mill. It will keep almost indefinitely at temperatures ranging to 20 below zero. The Navy's Medical Department is enthusiastic about the bone bank. They believe it would be of inestimable value in time of war. May 07, 1950. (Photo by Maurice Johnson, International News Photos).

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Mahatma Gandhi during the opening ceremony of Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital at Allahabad, 28th February 1941, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Blood Drying Unit- Processing Blood in the Laboratory, Cambridge, England, UK, 1943 A worker at the blood drying unit at Cambridge University passes crude plasma through a filter of paper pulp to clarify it. The worker is wearing a special mask made from wire, rubber and plastic. The wire forms arms, like a pair of glasses, which hook over the wearer's ears. It passes over the bridge of the nose, (the wire has a rubber coating at this point) and then hooks through a transparent plastic bag which is suspended from the wire over the wearer's face, covering the mouth. The wire forms a rigid rim to the plastic bag, keeping it slightly open, probably to catch any droplets of moisture from the wearer's nose.

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a routine polysomnography on a patient suffering from sleep apnea. This routine polysomnography evaluates the comfort of a patient treated with a respiratory aide device and the benefits of the treatment. Explaining how the autonomous device linked to the patients own mask works.

Central infirmary Den Helder. The dental hygienist at work.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Margriet opens St. Hippolytus hospital in Delft. September 17, 1970. Delft, South Holland

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Rescuers and Saved Man on Stretcher

The owners of these artificial teeth will be able is bite as well as fight a Dental machine at work. May 28, 1940. (Photo by Barry Newberry/Fairfax Media).

Vintage Photograph. Male hand with shirt rolled up demonstrating a Tycos Blood Pressure cuff with other hand pumping and measurement case, Frame 1

Artwork: "Captain Bennett Prep Medication" Artist: Alvin Pimsler. Country: Unknown

Tours USIS Information Center. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Home medical care. Chemotherapy

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1940S 1950S Baby Lying On Scale Being Weighed

A women's ward in an unidentified hospital, with elaborate decorations. Photograph.

1950S Side View Of Ambulance Driver In White Uniform With Stethoscope In Pocket Opening Back Of Ambulance To Take Patient Out

Britain Looks To Her Civil Defence. A New Hospital Reserve Lectures and demonstrations in the use and application of X Ray apparatus form part of the hospital training, and if this Auxiliary wishes he may claim compensation for loss of earnings for periods spent in hospital four hours or more. July 16, 1951.;Britain Looks To Her Civil Defence. A New Hospital Reserve Lectures and demonstrations in the use and application of X Ray apparatus form part of the hospital training, and if this Auxiliary

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Bosnian Serb patient. Hundreds of wounded Bosnian Serbs poured into area hospitals during during a two week Muslim-Croat offensive in NW Bosnia.

Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme : interviews, nursing care and activities. The patients have a cookery lesson.

Anefo photo collection. The Red Crosship "J. Henry Dunant" makes a journey of a week with 42 young patients, mainly with respiratory and heart problems. A patient in a wheelchair. July 14, 1969

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. "freckle bus" integral cancer center Noordwijk aan Zee control bathers skin cancer. specialist looks freckles. 17 June 1989. Noordwijk aan Zee, South Holland

SSGT Ernest Witt, a hygienist at the main base dental clinic, cleans the teeth of PO3 George Pollard. Base: Naval Air Facility, Misawa State: Aomori Country: Japan (JPN)

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. A girl with a result is investigated by Dutch doctors in the Kampong. February 1946. Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Paris-Saigon-Wings of Mercy. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

La Fayette. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Maggie Corbett, a medical laboratory technician from the fort's Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, prepares to draw blood from STAFF SGT. John Caldwell of Company B, 551st Signal Battalion, during a blood drive conducted in Building 353. Base: Fort Gillem State: Georgia(GA) Country: United States Of America(USA)

African American dad makes mom laugh during contraction

Vintage Photograph. Preparing for an x-ray exam: ensuring patient comfort and accuracy

Vintage photograph. The pharmacy of the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Hospital is an important cog in the care of approximately 70,000 plant workers. Last year the company's pharmaceutical laboratory manufactured 65,000 pounds of protective skin cream. The use of these creams by Ford employees and rigid hygienic investigation and methods have brought the cases of skin inflammation to the lowest in the industry

As his assistant stands by, a U.S. Navy dentist examines a Kurdish man's teeth at a field dental clinic near Zakhu, Iraq. The dentist and his assistant are attached to Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), which is taking part in Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and Southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Young female dental patient with newly applied brace brackets

Misc. Baths-Jet - Tub Baths & Spas. August 15, 1952. (Photo by The Register & Tribune Syndicate).

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