OnLine Images from the History of Medicine:
A Sampler
The collection contained within OnLine Images from the History of Medicine
is eclectic,
and reflects the history of the US National Library of Medicine,
which took responsibility for materials originally under the control of various
Surgeons General of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
Roughly a third of the images are portraits.
Some are grayscale, and others are in color.
Here is a potpourri of images that reflects the diversity of the collection:
A photograph of a Greek vase from the 4th Century B.C. which shows a
bandaging scene
A photograph of Abraham Lincoln visiting soldiers' graves at Bull Run
A photograph of American nurses escorting a group of refugee orphans
on the beach at Etretat, France, during the period of World War I.
An amusing caricature by Daumier
A recent poster for a medical film festival.
Further Reading
For an excellent example of a recent book which makes effective (and extensive)
use of material from the National Library of Medicine's
History of Medicine Division,
refer to:
Barbara Maria Stafford,
Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine,
MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1991 (587 pages).
ISBN 0-262-19304-3 (HB) 0-262-69165-5 (PB)
NLM HyperDOC / OnLine Images from the HMD / April 1994
A photograph of a Greek vase from the 4th Century B.C. which shows a
bandaging scene
A photograph of Abraham Lincoln visiting soldiers' graves at Bull Run
A photograph of American nurses escorting a group of refugee orphans
on the beach at Etretat, France, during the period of World War I.
An amusing caricature by Daumier
A recent poster for a medical film festival.
