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Hospital wards

Images

  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • World War I: a ward in the London Hospital in which a nurse tends a soldier's arm while other soldiers lie in bed. Oil painting after Sir J. Lavery.
  • A man consulting a physician who examines a flask of his urine. Engraving, 1644.
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Catalogue

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    A ward for men in a hospital. Photograph, ca. 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 642742i
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    Hospital of the Knights of Saint John, Rhodes: a ward, with the fireplace on the right. Photograph, 1931.

    | Date: [1931] | Reference: 662450i
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    Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: a visit by the King and Queen to the Clarence ward. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

    | Reference: 15556i
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    Gloucester Infirmary, Gloucester, England: a ward. Photograph by S. Pitcher, 19--.

    Pitcher, Sidney. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 665623i
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    Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

    MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951. | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23870i
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