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Patients at Villejuif and Earlswood AsylumsPhotographs of artworks by patients at Villejuif and Earlswood Asylums, including a portrait, a seascape, cityscape, sculptures of people and carved ships
Afternoon on Deck, Lady JanePatients and Doctors relax in the afternoon sun on deck of the Lady Jane. The patients are sent on a voyage in search of health, looking for someone who can treat their ailments. Date: 1885
The DoctorAn oil painting of a seated doctor, examining his patient, the main subject of the work, who is looking down at the artist, with his shirts raised, exposing his abdomen. Date: circa 1919
A physician, his patient, a coffin and two skeletonsFrontispiece of Robert Poole's A physical vade mecum (1741). Depicting a physician, his patient acoffin and two skeletons
Interior of a new mobil van to treat toothaches and trench-gum, for the trenches, costing of £900 by the Civil Service Federation. Date: 1916
The first sign of convalescence. Date: 1892
DR A R MANBY Physician to the duke of Clarence, whose skills were sadly insufficient to preserve his royal patient from an early death. Date: 1892
Cartoon, National Insurance Bill. Patient to GP: This treatment will be the death of me'. Doctor: (National Insurance Bill): I dare say you know best, but there is always a chance'
A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date: Nineteenth century
NURSE DEFIES DEATHDeath has come with the intention of taking away her patient, but the nurse defies him Date: circa 1916
A gouty invalid angrily rings for his manservant, presumably to fetch him some more port! Date: 18th century
BLOOD DONATING DOCTORDoctor Corbin, of Bordeaux, gives his own blood to save a patient in danger of death Date: 1921
CALANDER SAYS NOThe CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover ; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won't
Comic postcard, Doctor and patient Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Doctor and Scottish patient Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Doctor and nurse, operating theatre Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Doctor and patient - with a reference to the newly introduced heavier brass threepenny coin (the older, silver ones were lighter and smaller) Date: circa late 1930s
Postcard design - When can I see you?. A gardener keeping an eye (through a magnifying glass!) of a little plant slowly growing larger. Date: circa 1937
Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and bandaged patient Date: 20th century
1860s Japan - portrait of a doctor and his patient Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
Blind masseur, JapanVintage 19th century photograph - blind masseur, also described as a blind shampooer, Japan c.1880 s
Dog waits for owner outside corner shop, LondonDog waits patiently while its owner shops in a corner grocery store, London. Date: 1950s
Comic postcard, Passenger on top deck of bus talks to conductor Date: 20th century
The Enraged Ox, the Dustman and the Taking of Guy Fawkes. Boy chased by an angry bull near Smithfield market 36, dustman with horse-drawn cart removing rubbish 37
Sir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg and his wife KatharinaSir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg (died 1488) and his wife Katharina von Reifenberg. From the grave effigy in St. Johann Church, Kronberg im Taunus, Hessen Germany
Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a Billingsgate fishwoman with a basket on her head. Death and the Fishwoman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by
Women queuing for ration books, WW2Women queuing outside a Food Office for ration books at the beginning of the Second World War. 1939
Dental clinic in Paris, 1892Dental clinic in Paris, France, 1892. Date: 1892
King George V and Queen Mary at Perth Royal InfirmaryKing George V and Queen Mary visiting Perth Royal Infirmary Hospital, Scotland, in July 1914. 1914
Patient on stretcher lifted onto evacuation coach 1939Patient of Barts hospital lifted on a stretcher into a specially fitted Green Line hospital coach. As part of the preparations for war
New mother evacuated from hospital 1939A nurse giving a few words of encouragement to a new mother and her baby as she lies on a stretcher, waiting to be evacuated by ambulance from Westminster hospital
St Vincents Orphanage, TorquayAs part of a fete at St Vincents Home for Roman Catholic Children, Torquay, Devon, boys portray Red Cross stretcher bearers while another, dressed as a nurse, examines the patient. Date: Date unknown
Use of anaesthetics in dentistry, Paris, France 1885Use of anaesthetics in dentistry, Dental School, Odontotechnical Institute, Paris, France. Date: 1885
A Bumper Mistake by Lawson Wood - PhrenologyThe Phrenologist: Bless my soul, Sir; your bump of destructiveness is most abnormally large. You must be a soldier. The Subject: Oh, dear no; I m a chauffeur. Date: 1912
Edwardian society womens beauty treatments 1906Edwardian ladies believed that it was their duty as a woman to look beautiful. Showing a variety of photographs of society women enduring treatment to help repair from seasons ravages. 1
Biomedical centre, London -- a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones while a woman operates a machine in the room beyond. Date: 1972
Biomedical centre, London -- a woman operates a machine while a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones. Date: 1972
At Stradello, Italy, Guglielmo Bonfoco refuses anaesthetics during his leg amputation, provided he may play his accordion Date: 1911
Pediatric Surgery Date: 1938
Team of Surgeons Date: 1948
Nurse on Telephone Date: 1948
Physician and Patient Date: 1944
Doctor and Patient Date: 1944
Nurses at patients bedside. Reverse reads Highgate Hospital. Anderson Meningitis patient 1938. Junior Nurse, Junior Nurse, Staff Nurse, Sister g. Thomas, Staff Nurse. Date: 1938
Nurses with patient in traction at the African Hospital, LagTwo nurses attend a man with his leg in traction at a ward at the African Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria Date: circa 1935
Nurses and patients in female wardFemale ward in Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Nurses can be seen standing throughout the ward, several patients in beds along the right hand wall
Skin-graft surgery preparationTheatre nursing staff prepare the patient for a skin-graft operation. Date: 1946
Hospital Theatre, LagosA hospital operating theatre in Lagos, patient on operating table with surgical team an observers standing around table in gowns and masks. Date: circa 1930