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Vintage Medical Care

Historical images of nurses administering care and performing medical procedures in hospital settings. Vintage monochrome style highlighting medical practices.

Vintage Photograph. At the hospital performing Carotid Angiogram Diagnostic X-Ray Department.

Doctor with the help of a mother and brother trying to give a sick child medicine (EV006791_H)

Doctors. July 23, 1953. (Photo by J. Arthur Rank Productions Limited).

Two healthcare workers helping a patient bathe

England's Leading Fever Hospital -- A visit to the LCC North-Eastern Hospital. Infant suffering from broncho-pneumonia in Oxygen Tent. The tent is specially designed for baby patients. September 21, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Vintage Photograph. Dental services for tuberculosis patient.

Children playing doctor and patient

Anefo photo collection. Margriet visits renovated Donor Centrum Blood Bank Red Cross in The Hague. 11 February 1982

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Apply m9 coat of plaster for the purpose of taking the mould of a patient's face, who has been blinded in one eye, the patch is to restore that side of the face which has been disfigured.

Blood Pressure. April 22, 1940. (Photo by Radio And Hobbies).

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 Scherpenhuysen and Haverkamp doctors, everything possible is done to help these people go on the leg soon. June 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

USA, New York State, New York City, Brooklyn, Esther Bromley contributing her blood, Esther Bromley of New York City Civil Services Commission contributing her pint of blood to Greater New York Red Cross Blood Donor Center at 57 Willoughby Street

Africa, libya, tripoli, internal colonial hospital, 1930.

Mexican tubercular patient in home. Crystal City, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Crystal City, Texas , Zavala County

New York, New York: January 19, 1925 The North Harlem Dental Clinic of the NY Tuberculosis Association provides dental care for those who cannot otherwise afford it. Here is a patient being treated.

Four-year-old Robert Maloney is willing to shed shirt and beats for a physical check-up refuses to part with the bushy headgear. September 1, 1955. (Photo by United Press Photo).

Fred L. Soper (1893-1977) was an American epidemiologist and public health administrator who won a Lasker Award in 1946 for organizing successful campaigns to eradicate yellow fever and malaria between 1927 and 1945. Soper giving Yellow fever vaccinations in Belem, Brazil 1930's

04/01/1915. In the imperial hospital in Tsarkoye Selo. The Empress of Russia and her Daughters Assisting Wounded Russian Officers. The Tsarina appears sitting between the first two beds; Immediately behind her, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and to the right in the foreground Grand Duchess Olga.

Mrs. Alfred M. Gruenther at Val de Grace Hospital. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Coast Guardsmen Provide Blood for Saipan Casualties. Insuring a ready supply of whole blood for Marine invaders of Saipan, Coast Guardsmen set up a blood bank aboard a Coast Guard-manned attack transport just before the assault on the Japanese island stronghold. Pictured here is Coast Guardsman Albert W. Dill, chief storekeeper, of Mansfield, Mass., a veteran of several Pacific invasions, makes a contribution. Public Health surgeon Paul A. Kaufman, of New York, N.Y. (center), draws the blood, assisted by pharmacist's mate Fred W. Peggs, of Grynes Grymes Hill, Staten Island, N.Y. The blood was credited with saving many lives among early assault casualties.

November 5, 1977. Students of the special academy of the Armed Police, Teachers, Officers, Chiefs and Troops, Donating blood for the Red Cross.

Stachiewicz Roman and a woman in a white blouse and a dark vest sitting at the hospital bed in which a young girl lies. Circle of the Stachiewicz family

African American dentist is working on a patient's teeth in a sparsely furnished office.

Second World War. Lazarett (probably in Holland). Wounded relatives of the German Wehrmacht in the hospital bed. Next to it a nurse

Photograph of a subterrian surgery room. An American doctor operates on a soldier wounded by a Japanese sniper. Dated 1944

Railway First Aid Camp at Pennant Hills. First aid being rendered to a patient. October 22, 1940.;Railway First Aid Camp at Pennant Hills. First aid being rendered to a patient.

"I Can Cure Cancer" Healer or humbug PIX presents the facts about John Braund, a story as yet unfinished .. . John Braund claims he can cure cancer. A 78-year-old J layman of Beverly Hills, Sydney, he has become the centre " of world-wide controversy. The BMA is sceptical of his claims to success where the world's greatest doctors have failed. His technique has been called "clumsy, unhygienic." When his case was brought to light, patients he claims to have cured rushed to his support. A Sydney businessman offered him £20,000 to set up a clinic and a Government committee was formed to investigate his claims. December 12, 1952.

Bordleben Cap Arcona. H.S.D.G. Equator baptism on the passenger ship

An emergency medical technician performs an EKG (electrocardiogram) at Gorgas Army Hospital. Base: Fort Clayton Country: Panama (PAN)

Mahatma Gandhi attending to the leper patient Sanskrit scholar Parchure Shastri at Sevagram Ashram, 1939, a visitor NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Nurse praying for an outlaw lying in bed (EV006736_H)

SNCASE Aircraft Factory (Vampires, Mistral). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Outpatient clinic? Man gets wound care. January 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Vintage Photograph. Kaiser Foundation Hospital. Patient in bed with nurse outdoors pavilion.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Clothing provision in Koripan by the Red Cross. A little boy is bent with his head back, two nurses, one with tweezers are bent over him. The other nurse pours liquid into its mouth. 30 June 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

12/31/1927. In the Image, hairdressing cabinet for Lady.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Beatrix opens Dijkzigt. Princess at nurse (in bank). September 17, 1961

Bowel rinses. >>

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Kuala Tenengkol KliL. A Lieutenant doctor examines a sickness disease? child. February 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Elsevier photo collection. visit Queen Julianba Hengelo-Enschede Hellendoorn. Queen Juliana Hospital Hengelo, hired ladies flowers. mrs. J.H. Van Raalte Voorhuis. November 11, 1954. Hengelo, Overijssel

CPT John M. Kearney, a dental officer, performs oral surgery on LTC Arnold J. Muth, command advisor, 416th Engineering Division, in the dental clinic at the medical department activity (MEDDAC) health services complex. Lauryn B. Class, a civilian dental assistant, assists Dr. (CPT) Kearney. Base: Fort Sheridan State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dr. G. Wijsmuller Zr. Hut. TB control. undated. Guinea

Brigadier General James A. Feeley, Jr., commander of Marine Force Logistic Command, comforting a young patient at the Boa Khanh Children's Hospital near Da Nang. The hospital is supported on a voluntary basis by the command and has a daily in-patient count of 120 children along with up to 80 children treated at the out-patient clinic.

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson meeting with the press following throat polyp removal surgery, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Robert Knudsen, November 16, 1966

1940S Doctor Baby Newborn Infant Delivery Mask

Doctor Examining Young Mill Worker, Cheney Silk Mills, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA, circa 1924

"I wonder where my watch is now" says Pte. R. Light Eaplanade, Cairns, Queensland. A prisoner of the Communists in Korea for three weeks, and had his watch taken from him by a Chinese officer. Set free by the enemy he is recovering in the BCOF hospital, Japan. The attractive nursing sister is Lieut. Anne Skinner, Narrow Lane, Ramsey, England. March 8, 1951. (Photo by Public Relations Section, HQ BCOF Japan).

Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing it to 2nd Lieutenant Olive Bishop, who is writing on a small pad of paper. 1939 - 1945. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans, African-American soldiers, Armed Forces , United States, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States. Army. Women's Army Corps, African American women, Military personnel, African American nurses, Military nursing, Fort Huachuca (Ariz.), American Red Cross

Nurse giving instructions to son of migratory laborer as to how to take medicine. Agua Fria migratory labor camp, Arizona 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Agua Fria, Arizona , Maricopa County

Naval Ratings Aid Research- Testing the Effects of Temperature on Efficiency at the National Hospital of Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, England, UK, 1945.

Navy Captain Dr. Hugh O. Defries"Bethesda, MarylandNavy Captain, Dr. Hugh O. Defries, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the National Naval Medical Center and dentist from Baltimore, Maryland, examines a patient at the medical center." Photographer: PHC Milton Putnam.

1930S 1940S Smiling Woman Nurse Talking With Man Proud New Father Holding Newborn Twin Babies

S61-02749 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. has his blood pressure and temperature checked prior to his Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission, the first American manned spaceflight. The attending physician is Dr. William K. Douglas.

Anefo photo collection. Protest from initiative committee to preserve the academic medical center, outdoor patient. May 12, 1976

Poll photo collection. Factory for beauty products Helena Rubinstein in Nazareth. Employees are busy with flapping bottles with labels. January 1, 1964. Israel, Nazareth

Marblehead, Children's Island, Nurse and two children , Children, Bodies of water, Nurses, Sanatoriums. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Survived Epic Actor - Saved By Korean Family -- Private Lionel Essex, survivor of the Gloucesters' epic ***** in Korea (in which he was three times wounded and lost ***** left eye) is pictured in the hospital at *****.*****-born, was brought back ***** Nations ***** by a Greek patrol.After his battalion was *****, Essex was unable to move on foot but crawled for cover, was left for dead by the ***** and rescued by a Korean family, who looked after him for 33 days. Essex, 23, was orphaned when a month old and had been lodging with a family in Euston, London.When a youngster, he was under the guardianship of a Roman Catholic priest and was educated at St. Joseph's Convent, Enfield. June 25, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto)

The War In Finland - The President of Finland pays a visit to a military hospital and talks with a wounded soldier. February 08, 1940. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

FSA (Farm Security Administration) dentist and nurse and 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

With the help of his assistant, a dentist cleans a patient's teeth. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Playing nurse (351)

Injured American Soldier, American Military Hospital No. 5, supported by American Red Cross, Auteuil, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, June 1918

Dr. Charles Drew. After receiving first aid treatment in a practice raid in Washington, DC, air-raid `victim' is removed to hospital by a Medical Corps of the Office of Civilian Defense. ca. 1942

Anefo photo collection. Children's Hospital Amsterdam (1945). Baby in bed. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage photograph. Vaccinating a calf against black leg

Hairdresser preparing woman's hairstyle

SGT Glen McCoy, non-commissioned officer in charge of post detention, 204th Military Police Company, has his hand X-rayed by SPC Carol S. Voelker, an X-ray technician at the medical department activity (MEDDAC) health services complex. Base: Fort Sheridan State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Indonesians affected by smallpox. Boy is in a hospital bed. January 22, 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Arrival Schiphol injured survivors flight disaster Suriname SLM device. Arrivals, flight disasters, survivors, airlines. 11 June 1989. North Holland, Schiphol

Medical personnel hold a meeting to discuss procedures aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20), underway in the Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Unknown

04/01/1906. The Courrieres mining catastrophe. The august worker Berthon, last survivor pulled from the mine after being underground for 25 days.

Smallpox. 1898 Middle East

CPT Thomas Louisville (left) and TSGT John Stapleton treat "patients" in the emergency room during Exercise Team Spirit '82. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '82 Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Ann Hutchinson (as subject), Dr. Joan Vernikos (R), Dee O'Hara (L), J. Evans and E. Lowe pose for pictures in the NASA Magazine aritcle 'How it Feels to be a Human Test Subject' as they prepare for a bed rest study to simulate the efects of microgravity on the human body.

Montecino is half asleep as a masseub rubs the nerve centers at the nape of his neck. He was shaved every day by a city barber. April 27, 1930.

Madrid, 11/15/1977. Ángel Nieto hospitalized after the accident suffered on the Benidorm urban circuit.

Anefo photo collection. Medica 77 in Jaarbeurs Utrecht; Tour on the exhibition. May 3, 1977. Utrecht

First aid course at Guldsmedshyttan's mansion for Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösund Railways, TGOJ, Personnel.

aruna shanbaug in KEM hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia, 1980 Copyright: xMukeshxParpiani/DinodiaxPhotox

Emergency Hospital Exhibit 1955 , Radiography, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Anefo photo collection. Members of the NICA medical department do medical research in Masi Masi. 1945. Indonesia, Masi Masi, Dutch East Indies

Ruhr. Hospital. Cardiac catheter examination 1981

Vintage Photograph. Doctor examining girl.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: William Allen as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Kampon Dojo Lama, village Sentanimer, practical scientific experiment malaria control service Guinea started January, addition data regarding length weight children milt research, blood tests. fairly insensitive earlobe, barrel given, breeding drops spelled glass microscopic examination laboratory Hollandia. sick malaria papua boy arms Mrs. Metselaar .. undated. Dojo Lama, Guinea

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the Marine Hospital in Overveen. August 3, 1948. Overveen

The Arab doctor Dr. Nikolaki examines the eyes of a patient, ca. 1910, Beirut, Lebanon, Asia

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Kampon Dojo Lama, village Sentanimer, practical scientific experiment malaria control service Guinea started January, addition data regarding length weight children milt research, blood tests taken. fairly insensitive earllass, barrel given, blood drops exsteded miscroscopic research laboratory Hollandia. January 1954. Dojo Lama, Guinea

Anefo photo collection. Inents against Cholera at GGD in Amsterdam for Spanjereizers, vaccinations. July 26, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Description: A British doctor examines an African baby at a maternity and child welfare clinic. The Gold Coast Government will need the British men and women working in their health services for some time to come. Location: Gold Coast, Ghana, United Kingdom Date: January 1957 baby, women, fifties, mother, doctor, 1950s, 1957, nurse, 50s, clinic, africa

A captain of medical service looks at the sole of the foot of a parent.

Dental Technician Second Class (DT2) C.J. Phillips is assisted by SGT. Holmes of the US Army Medical Corps while cleaning the teeth of Cain at the US Army Veterinary Clinic. Base: US Army Veterinary Service State: Guam (GU) Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Milt research malaria control. undated. Guinea

"Rejuvenation Tub" For Ladies - The inside of the tub is lined with foam-rubber. As the tub rotates it rotates the body of the ' patient.' Ladies, would you like to be healthier, more youthful, and slimmer You would Well, a Viennese Institute for Health Gymnastics has set up a "Rejuvenation Tub" specially for you which it claims can make you look years younger. But before you start packing your bags and buying a plane ticket to Vienna just think of all the discomfort you would go through in the ' Tub ' - it rotates slowly, keeping the body in constant movement and thus massages away all the surplus fat, making you healthier and younger-looking - perhaps. November 22, 1954. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd).

Dentist examining a patient, Paris, France, 1920

African American little girl is sitting in a dental chair with a dental assistant standing next to her.

Swiss Guard At The Vatican Barber. 1957

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