EVB2936225: U.S. flag waving in foreground over flight deck of an escort carrier on July 16, 1943. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the United States during WWII, 122 were escort carriers, cheaper, slower, lighter ships often used to protect convoys and provide air support during island invasions / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936380: Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), known as the 'Elephant Man', suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a congenital disorder. Standing profile engravings of Merrick were published in the British Medical Journal in 1886. He was portrayed by John Hurt in the 1980 film THE ELEPHANT MAN / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936416: Africans of Natal, now a province in eastern Republic of South Africa, line up for vaccination during an 1904 smallpox epidemic after the Colonial government ordered universal vaccination. The woman at the head of the line looks away as the vaccine is administered to her arm / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936422: Patients and nuns at the Hospital of Hotel Dieu in Paris. Interior of a medieval ward with patients (some two to a bed) being attended by nuns, one of whom is taking a patient's pulse. 19th century wood engraving after painting in 'Le Livre de Vie Active de l'Hotel Dieu' , c.1482 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936440: A pregnant woman sitting in a birthing chair is being attended to by three midwives, one ready to receive the baby, the second standing behind the chair, and the third standing at the woman's side comforting her. Implements are on a table in background. Engraving from Swiss physician, Jakob Rueff's, THE CONCEPTION AND GROWTH OF MAN, 1580 / Bridgeman Images
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