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EVB2936644: Circulation of the blood from William Harvey's ON THE MOTIONS OF THE HEART AND BLOOD, 1628. Illustrations of a tourniqueted human forearms with pronounced superficial blood veins to indicate circulation. Fig. 3: Blood flow is blocked at two points, O and H. At O, the blood pools in a valve and does not flow toward the hand, but flows toward the heart. Fig. 4: Blood flow is blocked at two points, M and N, with no valve within section / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936604: Whirling bed and chair used to tranquilize patients inmates in mental hospitals in 19th century Belgium, by pioneering physician Joseph Guislain (1797-1860). As head of the mental hospitals of Ghent, he developed a humane therapeutic environment for the insane. c. 1835 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936646: Woodcut of a hand with palmist markings to aid the interpretation of lines and undulations on the palm of the hand in fortune telling. From Magnus Hundt's ANTROPOLOGIUM, 1501, an anatomical text that interpreted anatomy physiologically, philosophically, and religiously / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936927: Naturalization of foreigners, scene in Tammany Hall, in New York City before the 1856 elections. In left foreground, a rough looking man with a club in his hand, indicates this was not a completely innocent process. New York City politicians courted immigrants, often issuing fraudulent naturalization certificates in exchange for votes. Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Novemebr 8, 1856 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936972: Alice Paul (1885-1977), protested with British women's suffrage advocates before becoming chairman of the Congressional Committee of the militant National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1913. In 1917 it merged with the Womans Party to form the National Womans Party / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937025: Jesse James rides for his life through Shieldsville, Minnesota, after the disastrous Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, which netted nothing, left two bank employees murdered, two robbers killed, and Jim Younger wounded. The three Younger brothers were captured but Frank and Jesse escaped. September 7, 1876 / Bridgeman Images