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Nurse with Child Patient

Date: 1950
Description: Nurse with a young girl patient and a container of blood.
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Eye Exam

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr. John E. Hughes, optometrist, tests a patient's vision in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using an eyeglass lens machine.
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Dr. Hughes and Eye Patient

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr.John E.Hughes, optometrist, in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using eyeglass lens machine to test a woman patient's vision with advertising banners a...
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Hydro-therapy Department at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ...
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Chest X-Ray

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: A woman, bare from the waist up, standing at the x-ray machine as she is receiving a chest x-ray taken by an attendant at the controls at the Wisconsin Gen...
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Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Wisconsin General Hospital X-ray Procedure

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: State of Wisconsin General Hospital, at 1300 University Avenue. View showing chest X-ray equipment with a patient in position for the procedure, and a tech...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris (Mrs. Edward) Trameri being x-rayed by Dr. James M. Wilkie for tuberculosis at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Hea...
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Dr. Gunnar Quisling with Surgical Equipment

Date: 07 06 1945
Description: Capt. (Dr.) Gunnar Quisling is shown with a device (a surgical caliper or sliding square) he perfected for rapid detection of foreign bodies in wounded sol...
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
Poster

"First Aid Rooms" Factory Safety Poster

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing six first aid rooms at six different International Harvester factory and office locations: Champion Works, Akron Works Dispen...
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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri, 568 Park Lane, re-enacts receiving a routine chest x-ray at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Health. Dr. J...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, reenacts being admitted to Lake View Sanatorium on July 9, 1947. Discussing her case are Dr. John K....
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Treatment of Wounded Soldier

Date: 08 09 1943
Description: Pfc. Harvey White of Minneapolis, Minnesota gives blood plasma to a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher, while civilian women and children look on from th...
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Technician with Patient at MRI

Date: 1990
Description: MRI technician guides patient into the machine.
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Humanitarian Medical Treatment Mission, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Joint MEDICO/U.S. Army humanitarian medical treatment mission to a forward village near the Laoation border in the mountain region of Vietnam. A man in fat...
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Sally Littig, chairman of the "loan closet" committee of the Women's Auxiliary of Dane County Medical Society visits with Nellie Kedzie Jones who lies in a...
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Girl in Iron Lung

Date: 1957
Description: A nurse holding a mirror so that the photographer can see the face of a girl in an iron lung. Hanging from the machine are a number of greeting cards. The ...
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Podiatrist Dr. Helen Walters

Date: 1977
Description: "Podiatrist Dr. Helen Walters of Fond du Lac does her thing on a patient's feet."

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