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Magazine or Periodical

Detail of 'Comely Features' Article

Date: 12 1894
Description: An illustration from the article "Comely Features" in Godey's Ladies Book, showing elimination of forehead wrinkles.
Photograph

Treating a Wounded Soldier

Date: 07 15 1965
Description: Medics treating Paratrooper Private First Class Richard F. Greene of Silver Springs, MD at Airborne battalion aid station at Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub...
Photograph

Navy Doctors Performing Surgery

Date: 1945
Description: Three male medical personnel operate on a wounded soldier while a female medic administers anaesthetic.
Photograph

Student Has Radical Brain Surgery

Date: 09 23 1964
Description: Mark Newman is shown sitting behind a stack of books as he returns to La Follette High School three weeks after radical surgery for a brain tumor. Behind h...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Operating Room

Date: 1901
Description: View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid...
Photograph

Game Farm Laboratory

Date: 10 1935
Description: A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin stan...
Photograph

Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe....
Photograph

Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: The operating room at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
Postcard

Madison General Hospital, Ante-room of Surgical Department

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the surgery ante-room. Gurneys in a brightly lit hallway. Doors out to the balcony. Caption reads: "Madison General Hospital, Madison, Wis...
Photograph

Green Bay Boy Recovering from Heart Surgery

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Jeffrey McVeigh, age 5 from Green Bay, recovering from a five-hour operation at University Hospital to repair a hole in the inner walls of his heart. He is...
Photograph

Wills Triplets Have Tonsils Removed

Date: 11 21 1957
Description: The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Wills, 805 Pulley Drive, have their tonsils removed on the same day at St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. Wills is readi...
Photograph

Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem (left) in surgical garb assisting a surgeon in an operating room. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, s...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
Photograph

Urea used for Brain Surgery at University Hospital

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: A brain surgery operation is in progress at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. A urea and inert sugar solution developed at the University is used to lo...
Photograph

Science Fiction Theatre on-set photograph

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Description: A doctor operates on a patient in a scene from the Ziv-TV Science Fiction Theatre episode entitled "Signals From the Moon". Three women and one man dresse...

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