Thom, Robert (1915-79)

Creator details

Name
Thom, Robert (1915-79)
Nationality
American

Assets (11 in total)

Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis ensuring doctors and medical students wash their hands before examining obstetric patients at Vienna General Hospital, Austria, 1847 (colour litho)
Rene Theophile Hyacinte Laennec (1781-1826), French physician ausculating a child with his stethoscope - by Robert Thom, 1954. Reserve rights.
Joseph Bienaime Caventou (1795-1877) and Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) working on quinine in 1820 (colour litho)
Governor John Winthrop Performing Apothecary Services in his Home
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
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)
Founding of the American Medical Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1847 (colour litho)
German physician and professor Rudolf Virchow, known as the 'father of modern pathology', giving a lecture at the University of Wurzburg, c1850 (colour litho)
Bohn aluminum, 1900s
Doctor examining the interior of a patient's eye using an opthalmoscope, invented by German physicist Hermann Helmholtz in 1850 (colour litho)
William Harvey (1578-1657).

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