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Showing posts with label medical photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
French Medical Personnel Finding the Location of a Bullet in a Wounded Patient With a Mobile X-Ray Machine in a Field Hospital During World War 1
French medical personnel finding the location of a bullet in a wounded patient with a mobile x-ray machine in a field hospital during World War 1.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Union Soldiers Convalescing From Wounds or Disease in the Interior of a Hospital Ward in Alexandria, Virginia, During the Civil War
Union soldiers convalescing from wounds or disease in the interior of a hospital ward in Alexandria, Virginia, during the Civil War. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.
Friday, August 21, 2015
A Serbian Soldier Posing With the Arm of a Man Wounded by a Austro-Hungarian Dum-Dum Bullet During World War 1
A Serbian soldier posing with the arm of a man, probably a soldier, wounded by a Austro-Hungarian dum-dum bullet during World War 1.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Portrait of Union Soldier Thomas Yourall Who Served With Company C of the 3rd US Artillery During the Civil War
Portrait of Union soldier Thomas Yourall who served with Company C of the 3rd US Artillery during the Civil War. He required the surgical excision of the head of his humerus after suffering a wound to his arm on April 14, 1865. Photographed by Dr. Adams at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. Animated stereoview.
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wounded Soldiers Sitting on Cots in the Interior of a Tent Believed to be Taken at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. (1865)
Wounded soldiers sitting on cots in the interior of a tent believed to be taken at Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1865. By Dr. Reed Bontecou.
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Saturday, December 27, 2014
Daguerreotype Portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the Bedside of a Dead or Dying Patient (1849)
Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849. He later became a major in the Union Army during the Civil War where he became known as the "Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine." The hospital named Camp Letterman set up after the Battle of Gettysburg was named after him. Image from the American Experience documentary called Death and the Civil War.
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