Antiseptic Surgery

Antiseptic surgery; its principles, practice, history, and results, 1882 by Smith, Elder, London 

Good Nurse

Images by Marlene Ohlsson

Surgery

Worrydoll by Renée Laferriere Cinderhouse.

Hospital

Images by Kirill Kuletski.

Flesh Feast

Exquisite Bodies

Images from Exquisite Bodies, an exhibition that explored the forgotten history of the anatomical model. See image galleries and videos on the Wellcome Collection site.

Asylum

Images by Christopher Payne's project Asylum. The photographs are publised in the book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.

Opposed to Pain

Illustrations from calendars produced by the The Antikamnia ("Opposed to Pain") Chemical Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The calendars (1897-1901) are illustrated with "Skeleton Sketches," a chromolithographed series based on watercolors by the local physician-artist Louis Crucius.

Choreography

La Placenta

Bloodletting

A rare bloodletting antique business card for CUPPERS & LEECHERS in Pittsburgh.

Mommy

Images from Adventure to Motherhood, J. Allan Offen, M.D., 1964

Nerve Pills

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine