Medical Collection (page 9)

Womans Relief Corps
A beautiful gilded and embossed postacrd promoting the viryue and history of the Womans Relief Corps - a charitable society to provide local relief work among the needy and to aid military veterans

Metropolitan Police officers, Wapping High Street, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers wheeling a Bischoffsheim hand ambulance along Wapping High Street, East London, much to the interest of children, as there is a man lying inside

Incubator, 1884
The interior and exterior view of an Auvard incubator for premature babies. Date: 1899

Lloyd Georges Maternity Insurance Benefit
In the early twentieth century a free National Health Service did not yet exist and the poor could not usually afford medical services

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

Harrogate Pump Room
The Spa at Harrogate Pump Room, built in 1842 to house the sulphur well. It was designed by Isaac Shutt. No longer functioning, it has been a museum since 1953. Date: built 1842

Ambulance for wounded horses, World War One
An ambulance for wounded horses on the battlefield : the Canadian Mounted Veterinary Corps at work with field artillery. Men of the Mounted Section of the Canadian Veterinary Corps are seen

Psychometric Test
A young woman, wired up to a Psychometer machine, undergoes a psychometric test. Date: early 1930s

Aerial view, Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire
An aerial view of Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire. It was originally erected in 1907 as the Fylde Union workhouse, then served as a military hospital during World War One

King George V at the battle front
King George V at an unspecified First World War battle front, meeting a nursing matron

Salford Union Infirmary / Hope Hospital
Hope Hospital, Eccles Old Road, Salford. The hospital was opened in 1882 as the Salford Union Infirmary, more usually known as Hope Hospital

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Faculty of Science and Medicine
Argentina - Buenos Aires - Institure of Science and Medicine. Photo (8/40) from a fold-out set

Poster advertising a collection for nurses
German poster advertising a collection for nurses, to thank them for their work during the First World War

Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey
The Grove Hospital, at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) was one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious diseases such as

Darenth Schools and Training Colony, Kent
The Darenth Schools (top left), near Dartford in Kent, were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for imbecile children from London

Union Infirmary, Bagthorpe, Nottingham
The front of the Nottingham Union Infirmary at Bagthorpe with staff standing outside. Designed by Arthur Marshall, the infirmary and its accompanying workhouse were opened in 1903

Medical School at Guys Hospital
The new medical school buildings were opened by the Prince of Wales, on the 26th May 1897

Transfusing Blood, 1880
TRANSFUSION - a doctor takes blood from the husband to give to the wife

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

Two bearers and patient (2 of 2)
Method of lifting a patient onto a stretcher, with two bearers. (2 of 2)

Inside the Heart
No man knoweth the secrets of the heart - but these interior views give you some idea... Date: late 19th century

4 Views of Heart
Four views of the heart, posterior and anterior, and the base and interior of the ventricle

Edme Pajot, Caricature
EDME PAJOT French medical

French Nurses 1914
French Soeurs de Charite in the opening months of World War one

Vesalius Demonstrates
Vesalius demonstrating

Nehemiah Grew
NEHEMIAH GREW medical, surgeon

EYE TEST / 1958
The school matron tests the eye sight of a few young boys

Karlsbad / Sprudel C1900
Karlsbad: the Sprudel

Tuberculosis Bacillus
Bacillus of tuberculosis, discovered by Koch, 1884

Sister Louisa Mackay, of Canterbury (Kent) hospital

Sister Edith King, of Netley Hospital, Hampshire

Malaria Epidemic 1901
MALARIA Fighting malaria in Italy

Anatomy: human Skeleton
The human skeleton

Using Larynggoscope
Examing a patients throat with the aid of a laryngoscope

Measles Compared
The left boy has MEASLES (rougeole), the middle one SCARLET FEVER (scarlatine), the right SMALLPOX (petite verole volante) Can you spot the difference ?

Jenner Title Page
Title page of the first edition of Edward Jenners Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (smallpox)

Soldier X-Rayed / 1915
Locating a bullet in a soldiers heart by means of an x-ray

Nurse Making a Bed
A cadet-nurse making a bed at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup

Matron Instructs Nurse
A Matron (distinguished by her head gear) explains a piece of equipment to a nurse. Note the bottle of poison on the left

Advert / Wind Pills / Page
Page Woodcocks Wind Pills: invaluable for the cure of indigestion, liver complaints and biliousness

School Dental Clinic
A school dental clinic in Wellington, New Zealand

Spa / France / Vichy / 1919
Vichy; La Grande Grille; waitresses in red & white striped uniforms, serve water to a gathering crowd

Rhinoplasty / C16Th
Rhinoplasty: nose correction

Surgical Instruments / C18
Variety of surgical instruments

Nurse Praying / 1915
A French Red Cross nurse prays for the safety of the French soldiers and hopes that only a few are sent to her care

Baby Weighed by Nurse
A nurse weighs a small baby while its mother watches

Diagram - Inside of Head
Detailed diagram showing muscles and veins inside of the head

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