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Bandages Collection

Background imageBandages Collection: Girl playing Nurse

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Anglo-Saxon Men Pl. XIX

Anglo-Saxon Men Pl. XIX
Anglo-Saxons of 9th & 10th century: green tunic, pan-hose & shoes, tunic with gold border & front slit, mantles, leg bandages, shoes with a central slit on the upper. 9th century

Background imageBandages Collection: First aid hamper supplied by St Johns Ambulance

First aid hamper supplied by St Johns Ambulance
A large first aid hamper (ie first aid kit) for ambulance station and railway purposes, supplied by St Johns Ambulance Association

Background imageBandages Collection: Forceps and Bandages

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Examples of 18th century bandages, tongs and sutures

Examples of 18th century bandages, tongs and sutures
Examples of 18th century bandages 1, bec-de-corbin tongs 2, bec-de-canne tongs 4, bullet-remover tongs 4, and various sutures 5-11

Background imageBandages Collection: Members of London Peace Action campaigning

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Eye surgery, 18th century

Eye surgery, 18th century
Lacrimal gland conditions 1, 2, bandages for lacrimal gland swelling 3, and cataract surgery 4, 5, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderots Encyclopedia, Pellet

Background imageBandages Collection: Anglo-Saxon king in his State Habit wears a blue tunic with embroidered hem

Anglo-Saxon king in his State Habit wears a blue tunic with embroidered hem, a mantle secured with a brooch, red hose with gold criss-cross leg bandages & a square crown. Date: 9th century

Background imageBandages Collection: Nobleman in his Habit of State wears a tunic with slit to the skirt & magyar sleeves

Nobleman in his Habit of State wears a tunic with slit to the skirt & magyar sleeves, a mantle with jewelled clasp, criss-cross leg bandages over soled-hose & a stalked beret. Date: 13th century

Background imageBandages Collection: Student nurses working with bandages

Student nurses working with bandages
Guy?s Hospital Preliminary Training School, London. Student nurses sit at a table together preparing laundered bandages to make splints Date: circa 1930

Background imageBandages Collection: Costume - King Edgar 966

Costume - King Edgar 966
Anglo-Saxons. King: red tunic, blue mantle with gold border fastened with a brooch & leg bandages. Youth: embroidered tunic, red mantle, criss-cross leg bandages. Date: 966

Background imageBandages Collection: Churchill recovering from injuries following a car accident

Churchill recovering from injuries following a car accident
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) leaves hospital after being struck by a car late one evening while crossing New Yorks Fifth Avenue in December, 1931, barely escaping with his life. Date: 1931

Background imageBandages Collection: Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets

Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets, clamps, manual pressure, forceps, knotted handkerchiefs and bandages. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageBandages Collection: Duke and Duchess of York - Moorfields Eye Hospital

Duke and Duchess of York - Moorfields Eye Hospital
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900-2002)

Background imageBandages Collection: Kuda Bux and one of his experiments

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

Background imageBandages Collection: Anglo-Norman Dress C11Th

Anglo-Norman Dress C11Th
Costume of the Norman period. Garments include: leg bandages, hooded mantles, phrygian caps, tunics, kirtles with pendant sleeves, veils, wimples, super-tunics

Background imageBandages Collection: Egyptian Mummy in British Museum, London - Adult man

Egyptian Mummy in British Museum, London - Adult man
Mummy of an adult man, name unknown. The preparation has been carried out with great care and skill by the embalmer, and the rounded

Background imageBandages Collection: Egypt, Africa - The Mummy of Rameses II at Cairo

Egypt, Africa - The Mummy of Rameses II at Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBandages Collection: King, Soldier, Minstrel

King, Soldier, Minstrel
King: mantle with embroidered border, tunic & leg bandages. Soldier: tunic, chainmail shirt & cape, trousers, boots. Minstrel: tunic & girdle, trousers & leg bandages. Date: 8th century

Background imageBandages Collection: King, Soldier, Labourers

King, Soldier, Labourers
King or Chieftain: mantle, tunic, leg bandages, short boots. Labourers: phrygian caps, short tunics & girdles, braies, short hose & shoes tied on with a leather lace. Date: 8th century

Background imageBandages Collection: Priests, Soldier C8Th

Priests, Soldier C8Th
Clergy: Ecclesiastical vestments; Soldier: chainmail, a tunic, hose or trousers & leg bandages. Woman: a kirtle with embroidered cuffs & a fur-lined super tunic. Date: 8th century

Background imageBandages Collection: Four cats with toothache on a New Year card

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Two dogs at a veterinary hospital in Surrey

Two dogs at a veterinary hospital in Surrey. A partially paralysed smooth fox terrier (above) and a boarhound with a broken tail, wearing an arrangement of surgical bandages to stop him wagging it

Background imageBandages Collection: Costume of Illyrine, a young merveilleuse and debutante

Costume of Illyrine, a young merveilleuse and debutante.. Costume of Illyrine, a young merveilleuse and debutante. She wears a Minerva bonnet crowned with feathers

Background imageBandages Collection: Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1

Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1
Four photographs in the Sphere magazine reporting on the War Hospital Supply Dept opened in August 1915 by Lady Sclater, wife of Lieut.-General Sir H

Background imageBandages Collection: Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training, WW2

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Volunteer nurses learning to bandage, outbreak of WW1

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

Background imageBandages Collection: Lady Herbert Davis-Goff in nursing uniform, WW1

Lady Herbert Davis-Goff in nursing uniform, WW1
Lady (Herbert) David-Goff of Glenville, Waterford pictured in uniform in 1918, when she was working at the Waterford branch of the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot where all kinds of bandages

Background imageBandages Collection: Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurse

Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurse
WW1 - An injured colonial French Soldier (Senegalese?) cared for by a pretty nurse. Date: circa 1917

Background imageBandages Collection: Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier

Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier
A Young wounded Russian Revolutionary Soldier. Date: circa 1912

Background imageBandages Collection: Injured footballer - Aston Villa

Injured footballer - Aston Villa
Cartoon postcard of an injured footballer entitled The Result of the Match by Martin Anderson ( Cynicus ) - this was template over-printed with the details of various teams, in this case

Background imageBandages Collection: Domestic Servants Insurance Act - Comic Postcard

Domestic Servants Insurance Act - Comic Postcard
Domestic Servants Insurance Act " I don t care how often I get hurt now, I am insured." A bandgaged housemaid shows her delight at the terms of the Domestic Servants Insurance Act

Background imageBandages Collection: Japanese Imperial Princesses making bandages

Japanese Imperial Princesses making bandages during the Russo-Japanese War. Date: circa 1905

Background imageBandages Collection: Dog with Broken Leg

Dog with Broken Leg
This dog, here with his nurse, broke his leg and the broken bones were mended with the aid of a metal pin. When the bandages come off he will be able to use his leg as before. Date: late 1960s

Background imageBandages Collection: Cat on Operating Table

Cat on Operating Table
A young veterinary nurse, Elizabeth Greaves, 17, bandages the leg of an unconscious cat, which has just had an operation to remove a tumour from its leg Date: late 1960s

Background imageBandages Collection: Australian ambulance men at Bernafay, France, WW1

Australian ambulance men at Bernafay, France, WW1
Australian ambulance men carrying soldiers suffering from trench feet at Bernafay, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Background imageBandages Collection: R101 survivors arrive at Croydon

R101 survivors arrive at Croydon
Survivors of the R101 airship crash near Beauvais, France, on 5th October 1930 arrive at Croydon Airport ten days later

Background imageBandages Collection: Wounded Soldiers in the Palace of Versailles; Franco-Prussia

Wounded Soldiers in the Palace of Versailles; Franco-Prussia
Illustration showing the hospital set up in the Galerie of Louis XIII, in the Palace of Versailles, for the Prussian wounded soldiers during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1

Background imageBandages Collection: The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick

The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick
A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick

Background imageBandages Collection: Soldiers tabloid first aid pack

Soldiers tabloid first aid pack
Medical equipment in a handy portable case made for soldiers, war correspondents, airmen and explorers. The kit contains Kola compound that supresses hunger and thirst

Background imageBandages Collection: Diagram showing five stages in bandage folding

Diagram showing five stages in bandage folding
Diagram showing five stages in the folding of a bandage, resulting in broad, narrow and medium options

Background imageBandages Collection: Egypt / Mummies / Mag Pittor

Egypt / Mummies / Mag Pittor
Mummies of a CAT and a JACKAL, housed in the British Museum, London

Background imageBandages Collection: Anglo-Saxon Menswear

Anglo-Saxon Menswear
Anglo-Saxons: trousers, metal fillet worn round the hair, brais (drawers), hose, boots, tunic, leg bandages, roc or super-tunic & a mantle secured with a brooch

Background imageBandages Collection: Nuns Dressing a Wound

Nuns Dressing a Wound
A saintly nun pours soothing ointment / oil onto the bandages of the bed-ridden man who swoons with the pain. Another nun brings in some hot coffee or is it more unctions?

Background imageBandages Collection: Egypt / Archae / Mummies

Egypt / Archae / Mummies
Professor Maspero unwraps a mummy in the Boulak Museum, Cairo. See 10269803



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