

images that haunt us



Contracture faciale bilatérale hystérique /
Hysterical bilateral facial contraction, 1891 © Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris / source: musee-dr-guislain

Employees of
Dr. Pavlov Institute of Experimental Medicine walking dogs, Saint Petersburg, 1904. / src: Twitter

Foot Bath, from ‘Practical hydrotherapy, a manual for students and practitioners’, published 1909

Local affusion or Affusion to Chest, from Rational hydrotherapy, 1901 / via
nemfrog
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Shower, from Practical hydrotherapy, a manual for students and practitioners, published 1909 / via
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Hip Bath / Hip Bathtub, from Practical hydrotherapy, a manual for students and practitioners. published 1909
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All images retrieved from: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice (New York, 1902) by S. H. (Samuel Howard) Monell
Topics: Vibration, X-rays, Diagnosis, Radioscopic, Thermotherapy, Electrotherapeutics, X-Ray Therapy, Vibration, Diagnosis
source internet archive (Harvard Medical Library)




Radiology Nurse technician in Protective Gear, WWI, France, 1918 / src: History Porn

by Atelier Manassé
[Founded by Olga Spolarics and Adorja’n von Wlassics, 1922 – 1938]
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