Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

First Aid

Part of
Wounds and injuries - Treatment
Assistance in emergencies
Rescue work

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images about First Aid

152 images from works
  • [Small British Red Cross Society first aid card, giving brief instructions on what to do].
  • Save lives : first aid : keep me handy / Dr. Martin Sagrera.
  • [Leaflet about the international work of the British Red Cross Society].
  • First aid for your dog and cat / Pedigree Petfoods.
  • The "Home" First-Aid Case : Tincture of Iodine.
  • [8 franc (with 3 franc surcharge) Belgian postage stamp (Stanley Gibbons number: 2548) to raise funds for the Red Cross. The subject is Jeunes Secouristes].
  • Take a tip from us : cotton on to Q-tips profit!.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Triangular bandage for the shoulder / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • [Card certifying proficiency in life saving and water safety (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1939 - used in 1942)].
View all

Works from the collections

709 works

    • Ephemera

    In war-time emergencies make your water supply absolutely safe ... : what to do in emergency / Milton Proprietary Ltd.

    Milton Proprietary Ltd. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, d.1958 | Date: 1912-1944 | Reference: GC/93
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

    Waugh, J. J. | Reference: 22131i
    • Books

    The Verisan home medical guide & year book 1938 / [Taylors Drug Co. Ltd].

    | Date: [1938]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.

    Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832 | Date: 1787
View all

Related topics

Wounds and Injuries
Home Nursing
Military Medicine
Bandages
United Kingdom
Emergency Medical Services
Wounds and Injuries
Resuscitation
Nonprescription Drugs
Homeopathy

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    closed
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence