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Home Health Nursing

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Images from the collections

Images about Home Health Nursing

33 images from works
  • A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles.
  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac, complaining of his ailments to his nurse. Pen and ink drawing by L. Frölich, 1859.
  • An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
  • A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Mezzotint by S. De Wilde after J.J. Flipart after J.B. Greuze.
  • An older woman tending to a sick young woman. Watercolour by R.T. Pritchett.
  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.
  • A man stirring his broth contemplates his injured head which he holds with his hand. Mezzotint by A. Huffam, 1826, after M.W. Sharp.

Works from the collections

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    Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.

    Margetson, William Henry, active 1901. | Date: 19 April 1901 | Reference: 16897i
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    Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

    Theodor Billroth | Date: 1881
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    Book for mothers on the management of children in health and in disease / by A. M. Usher ; with introduction by Francis B. Rutter.

    Usher, A. M. | Date: 1913
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    A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Mezzotint by S. De Wilde after J.J. Flipart after J.B. Greuze.

    Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 18203i
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    Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts.

    Henry Burdett | Date: 1885
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Sick
Human comfort
Food
Interior architecture
Dogs
Nurses
Reading
Care of the sick
Wounds and Injuries
Therapeutics

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