Patient Collection (page 6)

Ebenezer Sibly, British astrologer and physician, late 18th century. The vignette beneath the portrait shows a physician taking a patients pulse by the wayside

Professor Bergmann injecting a tuberculosis patient, 1891. Bergmann assisted Robert Koch (1843-1910) in investigations into the treatment of tuberculosis (TB)

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Malaria is caused a parasitic protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito

Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929
Edgar Berillon (1854-1948), French psychologist, c1929. Reverse of a medal struck to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Berillons (1854-1948)

Hydrotherapy treatments, c1902. Wet packs for treating the the kidney (top) and spine (middle). Bottom: sitz-bath and half-bath

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, 1889
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, [1889]. Laennec (1781-1826) is shown listening to a patients chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris

Joseph Lister, English surgeon, on his ward round in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, c1867 (1927). A pioneer of antiseptic surgery

Symptoms of the tertiary phase of syphilis, c19th century. A patient afflicted with sores and ulcers to the neck and face, including one which has destroyed part of the nasal cartilage

Physician examining a specimen of patients urine, c. 1600 (19th century)
Physician examining a specimen of patients urine, c.1600 (19th century)

Examining a patients thorax using an X-ray tube and fluorescent screen, 1903. The X-ray tube (on tripod) is set at the required height and the patient stands directly in front of it

Sanctorius clinical thermometer, 1612. Santorio Santorio (1561-1636). Italian physician known as Sanctorius invented his air thermoscope or clinical thermometer in 1612

Hypnotist mesmerising a patient, c1795

Smallpox victim, c1890. From a French medical book

Miss Nightingale and the Military in the East, c1860. Florence Nightingale in the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The doctor is taking a patients pulse

The Nightingales Song to to the Sick Soldier, 1854. Florence Nightingale tending a sick soldier in hospital in the Crimea

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871

Florence Nightingale watching a nurse at work, 1854. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War

Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Artist: E Walker
Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Clean, light and airy ward at the Barracks Hospital in Scutari, (Uskudar), Marmara, Turkey

Clinic at the School of Dentistry, Paris, 1892. A female student treating a patient under supervision

Birth in a Palace, 1760-1770. Artist: Indian Art
Birth in a Palace, 1760-1770. Found in the collection of the The David Collection

Roman relief of a doctor inspecting a youth

Arm being amputated without anaesthetic, Russo-Turkish War, 1877. Turkish wounded being attended to by the Red Crescent

Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing a patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792. Artist: Henry Fuseli
Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing a patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792. Illustration based on Johann Kaspar Lavaters description, from his Essays on Physiognomy. (London, 1792)

Womens ward in the Middlesex Hospital, London, 1808-1811. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Womens ward in the Middlesex Hospital, London, 1808-1811. From The Microcosm of London, illustrated by Pugin and Rowlandson and published by Ackermann. (London, 1808 -1811)

Amputation of a leg without anaesthetic, 1593. A surgeon uses a bow-saw to remove a patients leg blow the knee while his assistant holds the foot

Scenes from the life of Christ, and doctors with patients, c1300. Illuminated miniatures showing incidents from the life of Christ (top row), and below

Dr Syntax in Danger, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax in Danger, 1820. A physician peers down Syntaxs throat, while a manservant rushes in holding a steaming plate and wooden bucket of cold water

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), English nursing pioneer and hospital reformer. Florence Nightingale inspecting the wards of the military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856)

Direct person-to-person blood transfusion, 1679. From Tractatio Med. Curiosa de Murto et Occasu Transfusionis Sanguinis by Georg Abraham Mercklin. (Nuremberg, 1679)

Blood transfusion, c1880. Blood flows from the arm of the donor (left) into a cup, and is then pumped from the bottom of the cup and forced through a canula into the patient

Dr Roussell of Geneva giving a woman a direct blood transfusion from a volunteer, 1882
Dr Roussell of Geneva giving a woman a direct blood transfusion from a volunteer, 7 February 1882. After the birth of premature twins in December 1881

A tuberculosis patient being given a transfusion of goats blood, 1891. A woman receiving a direct blood transfusion from a goat at Dr Bernheims clinic

St Lukes Hospital, Old Street, London, 1808-1811. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
St Lukes Hospital, Old Street, London, 1808-1811. Female patients in their day gallery. St Lukes Hospital was a lunatic asylum designed by the architect George Dance jnr (1741-1825)

Caricature of Franz Anton Mesmer, c1785. He is depicted as an ass hypnotising a female subject with a finger. In 1779, soon after the publication of his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de

Animal-to-human blood transfusion, 1679. In both England and France this procedure was tried using lambs and calves. In Paris it was outlawed by the medical authorities from 1678 because of

Direct person-to-person blood transfusion performed at the wrist, 1679. From Tractatio Med. Curiosa de Murto et Occasu Transfusionis Sanguinis by Georg Abraham Mercklin. (Nuremberg, 1679)

Treatment of Tuberculosis using electricity, 1901. Francisque Crotte demonstrating his cure for tuberculosis using electricity produced by an electrostatic machine

Cholera patient. Patient in typical cholera attitude. From French medical book published c1890

The Doctors Bill, 1869. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
The Doctors Bill, 1869. This cartoon harks back to the days when a fee was charged simply for consulting ones doctor. The Stout Cook complains that she had to wait for two hours in the doctors

Lady-Physicians, 1865. Artist: George du Maurier
Lady-Physicians, 1865. A woman doctor takes the pulse of a patient who lies back in his chair looking at her. Just at the time that women were fighting to make careers in medicine

The Guardian Angel from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836. Creator: Cherrier
The Guardian Angel from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

The Surgeon, 1524. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
The Surgeon, 1524

X-ray room, Fulham School treatment centre, London, 1914. With a patient being treated, and a nurse standing by the window

A copy of a photograph of the ward deck of the Atlas Smallpox Hospital Ship, c1890-c1899. Joyce Green Hospital was once the centrepiece of the Metropolitan Asylums Board complex of smallpox

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