Bridgeman Education

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Standing obstetrical examination as illustrated in the 1822 medical classic Nouvelles Demonstrations D'ACCOUCHEMENS (DEMONSTRATION OF NEW OBSTETRICS) by Jacques Pierre Maygrier (1771-1835) . The physician depicted is thought to be a portrait of Maygrier himself

ID: EVB2936428

Diphtheria antitoxin was made by inoculating horses with diphtheria bacteria, then bleeding the animals to obtain their blood serum. The serum neutralized the diphtheria toxin causing the patients symptoms

ID: EVB2936474

Fever Bag of the 17th century. At top a women prepares to pour cold water in to the bag at the patient's neck, which will cool the fevered patient before it empties in the a bucket at the foot of the bed. European engraving of 1672

ID: EVB2936446

Public health education in Red China, 1957 (poster)

ID: EVB2936473

CAT (computer-aided tomography) scan being performed on a patient at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. 1987

ID: EVB2936488

Title page to the treatise on urine analysis in the late medieval book, HORTUS SANITATIS (Origin of Health). The book describes herbal remedies and cites the works of Galen, Albertus Magnus and Dioscorides. 1491 woodcut

ID: 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

ID: EVB2936664

Frederick Banting (1891-1941), Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, was the first to extract (1921) the hormone insulin from the pancreas

ID: EVB2936690

Portrait of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina called Avicenna (engraving)

Thevet, Andre (1504-92) (after)

ID: EVB2936694

Physicists Pierre and Marie in their Paris laboratory, 1904, shortly after they were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for their study of radioactivity. From LE PETIT PARISIEN, January 1904

ID: EVB2936718

Mexican-American workers on strike in California in 1933. Between 1933 and 1939, agricultural strikes would occur throughout California led by large numbers of Filipino and Mexican workers

ID: EVB2936714

Two Spanish-American boys in a one-room school in the New Mexican mountains. The school had eight grades taught by two Spanish speaking teachers. 1943 photograph by John Collier

ID: EVB2936730

Judah P. Benjamin was the first professing Jew elected to the U.S. Senate, c.1850 (photo)

Unknown photographer, (19th century)

ID: EVB2936736

Seven Ashkenazi Jewish men, 1876 (photo)

Unknown photographer, (19th century)

ID: EVB2936751

Immigrants leaving a sternwheeler at New York City's Castle Garden in 1884 under police supervision. They may have waited at anchor in the New York harbor for a few days while immigration officials inspected ships and gathered passenger information

ID: EVB2936837

Three cheerful men (probably Germans), share a meal and a bottle on the immigrant ship the PRESIDENT GRANT of the Hamburg American Line at the end of its voyage in New York Harbor. c. 1910

ID: EVB2936638

Human head and shoulders with heart and brain shown; some of the senses and their corresponding body parts, as well as particular sections of the brain, are identified. From anatomy text by Matthias Qualle, 1513