Sante Collection

The Raft of the Medusa - oil on canvas, 1818-1819
LRI4353719 The Raft of the Medusa - oil on canvas, 1818-1819 by Gericault, Theodore (1791-1824); 491x716 cm; Louvre, Paris

Operation / Paris
Eminent surgeon Dr Doyen performs an operation at the Maison de Sante, Paris, watched by students and colleagues

Smiling man sitting on a sea urchin with quills planted in his buttocks, 1917 (illustration)
7298969 Smiling man sitting on a sea urchin with quills planted in his buttocks, 1917 (illustration); (add.info.: Smiling man sitting on a sea urchin with quills planted in his buttocks)

Child turning the hands of a clock dial on a man's stomach, 1917 (illustration)
7298968 Child turning the hands of a clock dial on a man's stomach, 1917 (illustration); (add.info.: A child turning the hands of a clock dial on a man's stomach)

Soldier, look at this enemy! Worse than Boche. Fight it! 1917 (illustration)
7415700 Soldier, look at this enemy! Worse than Boche. Fight it! 1917 (illustration); Private Collection; (add.info.: The enemy mosquito)

Advertisement in the form of a stamp for the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911
IMB4824459 Advertisement in the form of a stamp for the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911: " Internationale Hygiene - Ausstellung Dresden 1911"; (add.info)

A doctor - Doctor - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4979812 A doctor - Doctor - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: A doctor - Doctor - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Virginia Tulip or Lily Tree or Yellow Wood - Japanese Prints by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu
FLO4647219 Virginia Tulip or Lily Tree or Yellow Wood - Japanese Prints by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884 - American tulip tree

Tulip, tricolor flower variety, (blue, pink, white) - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu
FLO4647187 Tulip, tricolor flower variety, (blue, pink, white) - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1884 - Tulip, Tulipa gesneria L

Spring Daphne - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants
FLO4647135 Spring Daphne - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1884 - Spring daphne, Daphne pseudo-mezereum A

Smellie's surgical instruments used to assist childbirth: short curved forceps and catheter
FLO4696251 Smellie's surgical instruments used to assist childbirth: short curved forceps and catheter. Copperplate engraving by Andrew Bell after an illustration by Jan van Rymsdyk from William

Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of
FLO4577808 Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts.; (add.info)

Letter Q: pulls them to Q. Engraving "The Soldier's Alphabet". E.R. Stop! , publisher, Paris, circa 1916
DUV4209447 Letter Q: pulls them to Q. Engraving "The Soldier's Alphabet". E.R. Stop! , publisher, Paris, circa 1916

First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): Letter I as a nurse. Women of the Red Cross coming to heal soldiers to
DUV4201496 First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): Letter I as a nurse. Women of the Red Cross coming to heal soldiers to the battlefields

Duties towards oneself: the body. Clean - Outfit. Before going to school, a good student takes care of her
DUV4212703 Duties towards oneself: the body. Clean - Outfit. Before going to school, a good student takes care of her. Engraving in " The unique book of morality and civic instruction

Microscopic views of human spermatozoa. View of the animalculae or organic particles in the semen
FLO4714918 Microscopic views of human spermatozoa. View of the animalculae or organic particles in the semen. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J

Dentist laughing as he uses pincers to pull a bad tooth from the mouth of an old woman
FLO4718324 Dentist laughing as he uses pincers to pull a bad tooth from the mouth of an old woman. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

Physician laughing as he pulls a patient's tooth with string. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration
FLO4718308 Physician laughing as he pulls a patient's tooth with string. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

A doctor, concentrating on his pocket watch, takes the pulse of a gentleman
FLO4565829 A doctor, concentrating on his pocket watch, takes the pulse of a gentleman, dresses in the fashion of the English Regence (1811-1820), in a piece decoree of mirror and candelabres (Bath)

Donkey cucumber. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4643003 Donkey cucumber. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist

Dragon head. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4642908 Dragon head. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist

Ipecacuanha, plant and root. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4642878 Ipecacuanha, plant and root. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832)

Varietes of skin disease autoimmune psoriasis - Lithography by John Pass, published in "Encyclopedia
FLO4618788 Varietes of skin disease autoimmune psoriasis - Lithography by John Pass, published in "Encyclopedia Londinensis" by John Wilkes, edition J.Adlard, London

Surgical instruments for extracting foreign bodies from the esophagus - Plate from " L'Encyclopedie" by
FLO4611943 Surgical instruments for extracting foreign bodies from the esophagus - Plate from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783)

Knee pad, slipper and mechanical mechanism - Plate from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
FLO4611907 Knee pad, slipper and mechanical mechanism - Plate from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783)

Doctor Pibrac's tongue wound bandage and lithotoma, used to hunt the bladder - Plate taken from "
FLO4611922 Doctor Pibrac's tongue wound bandage and lithotoma, used to hunt the bladder - Plate taken from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Scalp diseases, porrigo varietes and skin diseases: ulcerous pyodermatitis caused by bacteria - Lithography by John
FLO4618780 Scalp diseases, porrigo varietes and skin diseases: ulcerous pyodermatitis caused by bacteria - Lithography by John Pass, published in "Encyclopedia Londinensis" by John Wilkes

Screws for compression of blood vessels by Jean Louis Petite, tourniquet device and double band to adjust it
FLO4611834 Screws for compression of blood vessels by Jean Louis Petite, tourniquet device and double band to adjust it, chamois skin compress

surgical chair with patient to remove a vesical calculation through the groin - Plate taken from "
FLO4611780 surgical chair with patient to remove a vesical calculation through the groin - Plate taken from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Jean Louis Petite's machine to compress femoral artere during thigh amputation, bandage
FLO4611844 Jean Louis Petite's machine to compress femoral artere during thigh amputation, bandage, aneurysm needle and scissors - Plate taken from " L'Encyclopedie" by Denis

Borage officinale (Borago officinalis). Coloured copper engravings from a drawing by William Delamotte from William
FLO4568011 Borage officinale (Borago officinalis). Coloured copper engravings from a drawing by William Delamotte from William Baxter's book "English Botanical Phenomenes", 1834

Serpolet or serpolet thyme. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by Isaac Russell from William Baxter's book
FLO4566080 Serpolet or serpolet thyme. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by Isaac Russell from William Baxter's book "English Botanical Phenomenes", 1834

Doctors, vetus in the fashion of the English Regence (1811-1820), wearing wigs and redingotes, together with a nurse
FLO4565837 Doctors, vetus in the fashion of the English Regence (1811-1820), wearing wigs and redingotes, together with a nurse, consult each other in an elegant corridor

Albinism (albino), corpulence and vitiligo (depigmentation) - Strong water extracted from the Encyclopedie of Natural
FLO4726841 Albinism (albino), corpulence and vitiligo (depigmentation) - Strong water extracted from the Encyclopedie of Natural History: Humanite, by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811)

Surgical trusses from the 19th century: Dr. Hulme's palm truss, Mr. Salmon's patent, Mr. Whitford's, Mr
FLO4592945 Surgical trusses from the 19th century: Dr. Hulme's palm truss, Mr. Salmon's patent, Mr. Whitford's, Mr. Marron's for exomphalos, and Mr. Eagle's

Surgical trepanning instruments including spring forceps, Savigny's trephines, scalpel, elevator, Mr
FLO4592938 Surgical trepanning instruments including spring forceps, Savigny's trephines, scalpel, elevator, Mr. Hey's saws, lenticular, raspatory, brush, and trephine from the 19th century

Surgical equipment including elevator, tripod elevator, Mr. Rodman's trepanning instrument, I.L
FLO4592926 Surgical equipment including elevator, tripod elevator, Mr. Rodman's trepanning instrument, I.L. Petite's elevator as improved by M

Surgical equipment including spatula, eye probe, caustic case, probe, director, pocket tenaculum
FLO4592887 Surgical equipment including spatula, eye probe, caustic case, probe, director, pocket tenaculum, male and female catheters, needles, forceps, lancets and scissors from the 19th century

Cartoon of the politics of the Second Empire (Bonapartiste Regime) directed by Napoleon III
JOC4401063 Cartoon of the politics of the Second Empire (Bonapartiste Regime) directed by Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808-1873)

English women in dresses with big shoulder pads, 1572. Young woman in gold hairnet and plumed cap
FLO4644220 English women in dresses with big shoulder pads, 1572. Young woman in gold hairnet and plumed cap, and doctor's wife in unusual hat and veil that hides the hair, mouth and chin

Flax grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4642855 Flax grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist

Hops dore. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4642932 Hops dore. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist

Candid lily or Madonna. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany)
FLO4642894 Candid lily or Madonna. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832)

La fee de la fleur de marshmallow gives a medicine for the throat to a frog alitee - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy
FLO4637556 La fee de la fleur de marshmallow gives a medicine for the throat to a frog alitee - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882)

Lophantus branch (double page) with flowering - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu
FLO4647222 Lophantus branch (double page) with flowering - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1884 - Lophanthus sp

Paper Bush - Japanese Prints by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants
FLO4647128 Paper Bush - Japanese Prints by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1884 - Oriental paperbush or mitsumata, Edgeworthia chrysantha Lindl

Ottouring hay or odorant hierochloe or bison grass - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu
FLO4647195 Ottouring hay or odorant hierochloe or bison grass - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants

Lokta leaves and winter daphne - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu
FLO4647114 Lokta leaves and winter daphne - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1884 - Indian paper plant or lokta

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"Santé: A Journey Through the History of Health and Humanity" Step into the world of "Santé, " where art, medicine, and human resilience intertwine. From Géricault's masterpiece "The Raft of the Medusa" to historical events like Operation Paris, this captivating exhibition takes you on a voyage through time. Immerse yourself in 19th-century France as you witness the devastating effects of diseases such as scrofula, phtisia, malaria, goiter and cretinism, pellagra, and moth. Marvel at an intricate representation of a geographic map showcasing these afflictions that once plagued different regions. Discover the groundbreaking work of Flemish doctor André Vesale through an enchanting engraving. His contributions to anatomy revolutionized medical knowledge during the Renaissance era. Janusz Korczak's compassionate spirit shines through his black-and-white photograph from c. 1888. This visionary educator dedicated his life to improving children's lives and advocating for their rights. Witness history unfold with haunting engravings depicting "The Plague in Milan" during 1630-1631. Feel the fear that gripped communities as they battled against this relentless disease. Travel forward in time to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D. C. , where brave souls fought against the Spanish Flu outbreak from 1918-1919. Experience their courage firsthand through powerful imagery captured within these walls. Marvel at how art can transcend boundaries with Don Quixote promoting Globeol—a fortifying elixir—in a stunning illustration from around 1916. The fusion between literature and advertising showcases society's constant pursuit of well-being throughout history. Explore societal advancements with "The Toilet, " a thought-provoking oil painting from 1926 that challenges traditional notions surrounding personal hygiene practices while highlighting progress made over time. Finally, marvel at modern innovations like the contraceptive pill clock presented at Blackpool Fair in 1971. Witness how science and technology have shaped our understanding of reproductive health.