Medicine Collection (page 4)

Centella, Indian pennywort or gotu kola, Centella asiatica (Hydrocotyle asiatica). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906

Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital
Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister

Hearts ease, Viola tricolor. Close up
2220 Hearts ease, Viola tricolor. Close up

Injured soldiers, WW1, 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford
Injured soldiers - WW1 - No. 1003 Cowley Section - 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford. The importance of light and fresh air in aiding recovery was very prevalent in medical thinking at this time

Louis Pasteur. Artist: Edelfelt, Albert Gustaf Aristides (1854-1905)
Louis Pasteur. Found in the collection of Musee d Orsay, Paris

Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849. Comment on the London water supply during the reappearance of cholera in 1848 and 1849

John Hunter, 1786. Artist: WO Geller
John Hunter, 1786. Scottish surgeon and anatomist whose series of lectures on the theory and practice of surgery attracted numerous students, including Edward Jenner, Astley Cooper

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), German abbess and mystic. Her vision of the Fall of the Angels, considered by some to be evidence that Hildegard suffered from migraine

Princess Beatrice Ward, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel
The Princess Beatrice Ward (for Children), The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Date: circa 1906

Artificial hand of Goetz von Berlichingen
Prosthethic hand and arm of Gottfried (Goetz) von Berlichingen (1480 1562), also known as Goetz of the Iron Hand, a German Imperial Knight and mercenary. Date: 1868

Advert for Beechams Pills 1887
What are the Wild Waves saying ? Try BREECHAMs PILLS! 1887

State Insane Asylum, Austin, Texas, USA
View of the State Insane Asylum (now the Austin State Hospital), Austin, Texas, USA. It is the oldest psychiatric hospital in Texas. Date: circa 1905

ROBERT i YARZABAL, Bartomeu (1842-1902). Catalan physician and politician. MESTRES I BORRELL, F鬩 x (1872-1933). Painting. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Gallery of Famous Catalans

British camp with medical dispensary, Western Front, WW1
A British camp with an open air medical dispensary on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Human muscles anatomy engraving 1878
Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Vol I New York, Samuel Hall 1878

Picture No. 11676149
Girl Head x-ray and silhouette double exposure Date:

Microscopic view of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). RSV causes respiratory tract infection of the lungs and breathing passages

Bloodletting
Circa 1624, A doctor applies leeches to the back of a female patient as a means of letting blood. Original Publication: From a Dutch print. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

The eye according to Hunain ibn Ishaq also called Johannitius (809-873) Baghdad physican and philosopher. Manuscript c1200

Lord, have mercy on London. Contemporary English woodcut on the Great Plague of 1665
PLAGUE OF LONDON, 1665. Lord, have mercy on London. Contemporary English woodcut on the Great Plague of 1665

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Sioux brave heralding the sunrise. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex
The entrance to Oldchurch Hospital, Oldchurch Road, Romford, Essex. The hospital began life in 1839 as the Romford Union workhouse, designed by Francis Edwards

Booth Hall Infirmary, Manchester
Aerial view of Booth Hall Infirmary, Charlestown Road, Blackley, Manchester. Booth Hall was built in 1908 as an infirmary for the Prestwich Union but

Red vipers bugloss, Echium wildpretii, and common bugloss, Anchusa officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Lemon tree and fruit, Citrus limon (Citrus limonum). Chromolithograph by E. Gunther after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Cocoa or cacao bean, Theobroma cacao. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Scotch fir, Pinus sylvestris. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Curare, Chondrodendron tomentosum
Curare, Parreira brava or abutua, Chondrodendron tomentosum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Sick Carnot! (Carnot malade!), 1893. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sick Carnot! (Carnot malade!), 1893

Queen Victoria conferring the Victoria Cross on heroes of Dargai... May 14, 1898, (1901)
Queen Victoria conferring the Victoria Cross on heroes of Dargai at Netley Hospital, May 14, 1898, (1901). Victoria (1819-1901)

Medical eye checks, Rotherham General Infirmary, 1967. Artist: Michael Walters
Medical eye checks, Rotherham General Infirmary, South Yorkshire, 1967. In a photograph taken for the Central Office of Information

Tea room, Montague Hospital, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1977. Artist: Michael Walters
Tea room, Montague Hospital, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1977

The Research. Artist: Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin (1863-1923)
The Research. Found in the collection of Museo Sorolla, Madrid

Bhaisajyaguru, the buddha of healing and medicine, ca 1319. Artist: Anonymous
Bhaisajyaguru, the buddha of healing and medicine, ca 1319. Found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Verbena or Vervain, 1947. Drought-resistant plant valued in butterfly gardening with longstanding use in herbalism and folk medicine, usually as an herbal tea

Harley Street, London, 1926-1927. Artist: Whiffin
Harley Street, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

The Healing of Saint Roch, late 15th century. Artist: German Master
The Healing of Saint Roch, late 15th century. German painting of the Swabian School. Legend holds that a dog found St Roch suffering from the plague, and summoned help

Influence of the Universe, the Macrocosm, on Man, the Microcosm, 1678. From Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher. (Amsterdam, 1678)

Fitzroy HJ Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British soldier, 19th century. In the course of his distinguished military career, Lord Raglan served on Wellingtons staff from 1808-1812

Mothersills Seasick Remedy
Advertisement for Mothersills Seasick Remedy - recommended to stop train sickness. 1930

Native American Indian Picture Writing (Medicine Mans Chant) of the Chippewa or Ojibbewa Indians. Date: circa 1890s

Bonzo palms the pill by George Studdy
Bonzo palms the pill -- he is given a pill, but only pretends to take it. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Nurses from 3rd Northern General Hospital at Railway Station, World War I
Taken from 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield compiled by Professor (then Colonel) A.M. Connell. Taken during the Great War, mostly at the Base Hospital and Longshaw. 1915 - 1918. Cat. No

Rush Medical College building in Chicago
Antique illustration of a Rush Medical College building in Chicago

The human body with superimposed colored plates by Julien Bougle
The human body with superimposed colored plates, by Julien Bougle, circa 1899

Conceptual image of human skull and spinal cord

Human fetus inside amniotic sac

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