
The first known photograph of a comet. Donati’s Comet, taken at Harvard College Observatory in 1858.
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The first known photograph of a comet. Donati’s Comet, taken at Harvard College Observatory in 1858.
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Dr. Pavlov Institute of Experimental Medicine walking dogs, Saint Petersburg, 1904. / src: Twitter

Lightning strikes the Empire State Building and other Manhattan skyscrapers. /
source: New World of Chemistry: Science in the Service of Man, 1949
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Foot Bath, from ‘Practical hydrotherapy, a manual for students and practitioners’, published 1909

Local affusion or Affusion to Chest, from Rational hydrotherapy, 1901 / via
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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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John Adams Whipple :: Earliest known survived photograph of the moon, a daguerreotype taken in 1851
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Armadillo out for a Walk. Co-editor Evelyn Chandler watches as Howard Staines of the Southern Illinois University Zoology Department takes an armadillo out for a stroll around campus. 23 June 1961. / src: Univ. of Texas


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)


