EVB2936031: Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896), prominent American photographer, created a successful portrait business prior to the U.S. Civil War. To record the war, he hired many photographers including Alexander Gardner and Timothy H. OSullivan. c. 1870, Gardner, Alexander (1821-82) / 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, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / 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
EVB2936467: Fully dressed female patient lying on the operating table, surrounded by the surgeons of Massachusetts General Hospital in one of the earliest operations performed under ether anesthesia. Among the surgeons is Dr. John Collins Warren, the doctor who first demonstrated surgical anesthesia / Bridgeman Images