EVB2936448: Leper Colony. The Kalawao Settlement, on the small Hawaiian island of Molokai, was established in 1866 as the first isolation settlement for Lepers. View of the Photo shows a c.1900 view of the colony, showing buildings, ocean, and mountains. Kalawao is now part of Kalaupapa National Historic Park / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936547: Bedside scene showing French physician, Rene Laennec (1781-1826), with his ear to the patient's chest cavity conducting an auditory examination at Paris's Necker Hospital, c. 1820. He holds an early stethoscope, a wooden tube 30 centimeters long, an instrument he invented / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936549: Mayo family portrait, c. 1900. From left: Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939), William Worrall Mayo (1819-1911) and William James Mayo (1861-1939).William Worrall Mayo emigrated to the U.S. from England in 1845 and established a surgical practice in Rochester, Minnesota in 1863. His sons joined his practice and founded the Mayo Clinic in 1905 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936551: Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). German physician believed that a spiritual force he called 'animal magnetism' and developed therapeutic massage and other physical practices to influence it's flow to cure patients. His theories countered religious explanations of madness and exorcisms, by assigning disease causes to 'natural' forces. His works was known by the 19th century practitioners of hypnosis, and his name is the source of the English word, mesmerize / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936552: The Consultation. A mother visits a doctor's office with her two children. The office indicates the doctor's use of pharmacology, with bottles of medicine, herbs bundles drying, a balance scale and mortar and pestle at lower right. Lithograph by Edouard Girardet, c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images