medicine

[Unknown location. Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Laboratory Annex, Northwest Corner of Eas...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AN Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Dr. Irvin D. Leoser Log Cabin, 119 West Smith Street, Tahlequah, Chero...

Significance: The cabin of Dr. Irvin D. Leoder is the oldest building in Tahlequah, and one of the two or three oldest buildings in the state of Oklahoma. During and after the Civil War the cabin, which was co... More

Kada hone o kezurite kan'u yakizu o ryōji suru zu

Ukiyo-e triptych showing the story of Chinese Baron Kan-u playing go while the famous Dr. Kada operates on his arm and the Baron Shujo looks on. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-s... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, P Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

St. Elizabeths Hospital, P Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, 600 South Seventieth Stre...

Significance: The Lincoln Veterans Administration Medical Center is part of the VA's "Architectural Set," which is a thematic group of VA planned and designed hospitals constructed throughout the nation between... More

U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, 600 South Seventieth Stre...

Significance: The Lincoln Veterans Administration Medical Center is part of the VA's "Architectural Set," which is a thematic group of VA planned and designed hospitals constructed throughout the nation between... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Detached Dining Hall, 544-560 Redwood Drive, ...

For an overview of the Detached Group, see HABS DC-349-BX Significance: The Detached Dining Hall is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at St. Elizabeths Hospital and for its as... More

Robb House, 200 Block Southwest Second Avenue, Gainesville, Alachua Co...

These drawings were donated to the H/H collection by the University of Florida's College of Architecture; the drawings were produced by architecture students at the University of Florida who chose to participat... More

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 107, 200 East Beach B...

Significance: Building 107 is a three bedroom, one bath, residential type wood frame building. The building was used as a farm manager's quarters. Later it was used as the Engineering Officers quarters. Then... More

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 107, 200 East Beach B...

Significance: Building 107 is a three bedroom, one bath, residential type wood frame building. The building was used as a farm manager's quarters. Later it was used as the Engineering Officers quarters. Then... More

Andrew John Volstead House, 163 Ninth Avenue, Granite Falls, Yellow Me...

Significance: Home of the man who "personified prohibition." Volstead served in the House of Representatives (1903-23) where as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee he drafted the 1919 National Prohibitio... More

Andrew John Volstead House, 163 Ninth Avenue, Granite Falls, Yellow Me...

Significance: Home of the man who "personified prohibition." Volstead served in the House of Representatives (1903-23) where as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee he drafted the 1919 National Prohibitio... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward A, later known as Wards 17 and 18, was one of eight identical measles pavilions constructed for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigrati... More

Wilson Estate, 9100 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Montgomery County, MD

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with water, building, 17th-18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 55, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Atkins Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Aven...

For an overview of the Detached Group, see HABS DC-349-BX Significance: Atkins Hall (Building 31) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths campus. Atkins Hal... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Mortuary, New York Harbor, N...

Significance: The Mortuary is a diminutive but important support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital was constructed in 1907. It is integrated with its neighboring structures by a consistent use of m... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Pine, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washing...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: Pine (Building 6) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabeths campus. As part of ... More

Hill-Physick House, 321 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: A brick Federal house with an exquisite Federal entrance frontispiece. Dr. Philip Syng Physick, father of American surgery, lived in the house from 1815-1837. Unprocessed Field note material exis... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Veterinary Hospital, Southwest Corner of ...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AH Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Veterinary Hospital, Southwest Corner of ...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AH Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

[Petersburg, Virginia Surgeons of 3d Division before hospital tent]

Photographs from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Virginia Medical Center, Aspinwall Division, 5103 Delafield Avenue (O'...

Significance: The VA Medical Center at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania is representative of the Veterans' Bureau's efforts to provide adequate health care facilities for veterans following World World I. During the 192... More

National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Montgome...

Significance: Begun as a one-room laboratory in 1887, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, today is one of the world's foremost biomed... More

National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 9000 Rockvil...

Significance: Building 6 was constructed in 1939 specifically to house the newly established National Cancer Institute (NCI), the very first institute of the federal research center referred to at the time as t... More

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Sanatorium Road, 1 mile east...

Significance: The New Jersey State Sanatorium is an excellent example of a typical state sanatorium because it contains all of the textbook design features considered essential by experts of the day. Thomas Spe... More

St. Vincent's Hospital, Leon Lowenstein Clinic, 7-15 Seventh Avenue, N...

Significance: St. Vincent's Hospital, which includes this building, was founded in 1849 by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. It is the third oldest, and first Catholic, hospital in the city. The Gr... More

Lutheran Theological Seminary,Main Building, Gettysburg, Adams County,...

Significance: An early educational edifice. Survey number: HABS PA-359 Building/structure dates: ca. 1832 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1966 Subsequent Work

Taos Indian Health Center, 0.3 mile south-southwest of Pueblos Plaza, ...

Significance: The Taos Indian Health Center was constructed by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, and opened as a hospital in the late 1920s to serve the Pueblo of Taos and Picuris Pueblo... More

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 53, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

Virginia Medical Center, Aspinwall Division, Infirmary Building, 5103 ...

Significance: The Infirmary Building is one of the original structures erected by the United States Veterans' Bureau at Aspinwall in 1924. It is significant for its associations with the Veterans' Bureau's nati... More

Virginia Medical Center, Aspinwall Division, Infirmary Building, 5103 ...

Significance: The Infirmary Building is one of the original structures erected by the United States Veterans' Bureau at Aspinwall in 1924. It is significant for its associations with the Veterans' Bureau's nati... More

Virginia Medical Center, Aspinwall Division, Infirmary Building, 5103 ...

Significance: The Infirmary Building is one of the original structures erected by the United States Veterans' Bureau at Aspinwall in 1924. It is significant for its associations with the Veterans' Bureau's nati... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Staff House, New York Harbor...

Significance: The Staff House was a support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital complex on Island 3 of the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station. Construction of the Contagious Disease Hospital in 1... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Hugh Watt House, Old Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia

Significance: As this is an unpretentious farmhouse, it has little recorded architectural history. Hugh Watt was born in Flenairm, Antrim County, Ireland. After his father's death, with his mother, he emigrat... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Veterans Administration Center, Officers Duplex Quarters, 5302 East Ke...

Significance: The Georgian Colonial Style Officers Duplex Quarters, Building 8, is a contributing structure within the Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center complex which was historically named th... More

Veterans Administration Center, Officers Duplex Quarters, 5302 East Ke...

Significance: The Georgian Colonial Style Officers Duplex Quarters, Building 8, is a contributing structure within the Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center complex which was historically named th... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G, New York Har...

Significance: Measles Ward G, constructed in 1907, is one of 11 individual treatment wards in the contagious disease hospital complex on Island 3. The building was one of eight wards designated as measles trea... More

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

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Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

Les secrets dv seignevr Alexis Piemontois, et davtres avtevrs bien exp...

Title vignette (printer's device). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting October 6, 1939. Rec. 2-21-45 LAC scc 2019-01-03 update (1 card)

[God of love drama in 4 acts, theatrical script

[Pietro da Montagnana, a Paduan medical teacher surrounded by Greek an...

Illus. in: Fasciculus medicinae / Johannes de Ketham. Venice : J. and G. de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1495. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 130.

[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]

Illus. in: Ophthalmodouleia / George Bartisch. [Dresden : Gedruckt durch M. Stockwel], 1583, p. 13. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 147.

Building owned by W.R. Hand, John Rohue, and S.D. Butcher, Kearney, Ne...

summary: Note: Pictured is the office of Dr. Manford Mott, who advertises himself as an allopathist and homeopathist. original size: 6x8

[Japanese nurses and doctor during surgery]

H69004 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Nov. 23, 1905.

Edward S. Curtis - [Medicine Crow--Apsaroke], Head and Shoulders Portr...

Medicine Crow, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, hawk hide headdress, two earrings in right ear, disc ornaments, shell beads, beaded scalp shirt. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curt... More

Edward S. Curtis - [Arikara medicine ceremony--the Bears]

Photo shows six men standing in line in front of cedar tree, holding rattles and singing. H118588 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from published source. Curtis no. 2890-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collecti... More

Mother giving medicine to child

Photograph shows a woman spoon feeding medicine to a young girl; various medicines on display on shelves next to woman and child. Copyright 1915.

Medical Museum - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Tool House, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Shops and Support Structures, see HABS DC-349-CC Significance: The Tool House is significant for its association with the development of campus-wide infrastructure to support the west cam... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Transformer Room, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr....

For an overview of the Systems and Infrastructure Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CD Significance: Transformer Room No. 62 (Building 62) is significant for its association with the west campus of St. Elizabeths. The... More

Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee

Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Infor...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patent medicine shop. Hagerstown, Maryland

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description