LLM5999040:
Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis ensuring doctors and medical students wash their hands before examining obstetric patients at Vienna General Hospital, Austria, 1847 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
CHT236337:
Joseph Bienaime Caventou (1795-1877) and Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) working on quinine in 1820 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4109875:
Rene Theophile Hyacinte Laennec (1781-1826), French physician ausculating a child with his stethoscope - by Robert Thom, 1954. Reserve rights., Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936672:
Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90 AD), Greek botanist and pharmacologist, studying plants while accompanying Roman armies during the time of Caesars. Illustration by Robert Thom, c. 1950, Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
LLM5999032:
Boston dentist William T G Morton getting a patient to inhale ether as an anaesthetic before a procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1846 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
LLM5999036:
Founding of the American Medical Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1847 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
LLM5999012:
German physician and professor Rudolf Virchow, known as the 'father of modern pathology', giving a lecture at the University of Wurzburg, c1850 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images
LLM5999031:
Doctor examining the interior of a patient's eye using an opthalmoscope, invented by German physicist Hermann Helmholtz in 1850 (colour litho), Thom, Robert (1915-79) / Bridgeman Images