Bandage Collection

Girl playing Nurse
A young girl in her nurses outfit, tends to her teddys injuries with copious bandaging, whilst a pet cat watches on. She seems to be getting her medical knowledge from the First Aid manual in her

Mummified sacred ibis, partially unwrapped
The sacred ibis, as well as the baboon, was linked to Thoth, god of the moon and writing. He was often represented as a man with the head of an ibis

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

Forceps and Bandages
A selection of medical appliances, including forceps and a hook to extract bullets (fig 8). Also bandage application diagrams

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and patient - rising temperature Date: 20th century

Shell-shocked Italian soldier with bandage, WW1
Shell-shocked Italian soldier with bandage, travelling in a railway compartment, First World War. Drawing by Robert Sargeant Austin. circa 1918

The Bunnies return home after their accident Date: 1924

Members of London Peace Action campaigning against war toys outside a Toy and Hobby Fair at Earls Court, West London, 3 February 1981. Date: 1981

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and bandaged patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, The MacGregors Gathering Date: 20th century

Soldiers with vintage car, Blanefield, Scotland, WW1
Soldiers with vintage car, Blanefield, Scotland. One of the men has a bandage on his head. circa 1916

Cold running Sitz Bath - The Water Cure
Heres nice treatment! A cold running sitz bath at six in the morning, a bandage on the head, and snow on the ground - The Water Cure. 1870

18th century sutures, tourniquet, syringe and bandages
18th century sutures 1, 2, tourniquet 3, Dominique Anels fine-pointed syringe 4, siphon 5, injection tubes 6-9, 18-sheet bandage for complex fractures 10 and graded compress 11

Jean Louis Petits machine to compress the femoral artery during amputation of the thigh 1, and bandages 2, aneurysm needle 3 and scissors 4

Poster design, British Nursing, WW1
Poster design by Gerald Spencer Pryse, for The Nations Fund for Nurses, First World War. circa 1915

School Nurse - People You See. From Teddy Bear (15 January 1966). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1966

Nurse on Telephone Date: 1948

Hogarth - Marriage a la Mode
1. The Contract Date: 1745

Happy Families - Miss Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

WW1 poster, Buy More Liberty Bonds, Lend as they fight. Date: circa 1917

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

Three young Somali Boys at Djibouti, East Africa
Three young Somali Boys (one with an injured and bandaged ankle) at Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1909

London AFS fireman at a hospital during the Blitz, WW2
London AFS fireman at a hospital for medical attention during the Blitz

Portuguese soldiers captured on the Western Front, WW1
Portuguese soldiers who have been captured on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

Cartoon, mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, London
Cartoon -- They are getting the water out of the Criterion with all speed. Henry James Byron (1835-1884) is shown mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, London, after some flooding

Cupids and hearts on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Egyptian mummy. National Archaeology Museum. Madrid. Spain

The centurions servant sick in bed. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Allegorical scene
An allegorical scene, possibly depicting a charitable act. circa early 20th century

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Pill. circa 1935

Three Belgian hospital patients outside Quex House
Three Belgian hospital patients standing outside the front of Quex House. The verandah behind them was outside the Drawing Room where A Ward was situated

Four cats with toothache on a New Year card, quoting from Charles Dickens characters (Sairey Gamp, Mrs Harris, Betsy Prig and Tiny Tim) -- Its best to grin and bear it! Date: circa 1890s

Four kittens playing blind mans bluff on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation, WW1
Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation. A German patient in a French hospital asks an orderly if he will be ok with his reconstructed chin containing silver

Cartoon, They don t have any in Germany, WW1
Cartoon, They don t have any in Germany. Allied soldiers celebrate with a drink of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk), happy to think that its not available in Germany

Cartoon, Regrets, WW1
Cartoon, Regrets. An elderly man is sorry to see that he has a rival for a ladys affections -- he can t win against a young soldier in uniform with a wounded hand. Date: 1916

Victorian Scrap, man taking medicine from a spoon. circa 1880s

Master Peter from Don Quixote, by William Heath Robinson
Master Peter from Don Quixote, illustration by William Heath Robinson (1902). The man is a puppeteer with an ape, met by Don Quixote on his travels. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Mother pig and her piglets
Mother pig consoling her piglets after their upsetting encounter with Bobby the dog and Fluff the cat. Date: circa 1933

WW2 greetings card, Cheer up! It won t be so long now!! A Scots terrier with a bandaged tail. V for Victory is painted on the fence. Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

Boy scouts at De Lesseps Park, Panama City, Panama
Boy scouts taking part in a First Aid demonstration at De Lesseps Park, Panama City, Panama, South America, on the occasion of an inspection of combined groups by the Chief Commissioner

Five boy scouts on an outdoor activity, Mauritius
Five boy scouts on an outdoor activity, connected with first aid bandaging skills, Mauritius

Scouts during Accra Scout Week, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts at the Gold Coast Hospital during Accra Scout Week, Ghana, West Africa. They are standing by the bed of a sick boy patient, with a nurse alongside. Date: 1951

Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training, WW2
Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training during a blackout -- one boy bandages another boys arm. Date: circa 1940s

First Aid class, 32nd Vancouver Scout Troop, Canada
First Aid class in progress at the 32nd Vancouver (Chinese) Boy Scout Troop, British Columbia, Canada

Volunteer nurses learning to bandage, outbreak of WW1
Volunteer nurses practising their bandaging techniques on children at Kensington Town Hall shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Motor cyclist on the Western Front, WW1
A motor cyclist putting his enthusiasm to good use on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

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