Vignettes at Large

Peter Arnold 

No complaints, only symptoms ^new

Charles Halsted

The novice ^new
Kwashiorkor ^new
Schistosomiasis ^new
Heart failure ^new
Munchausen by Proxy ^new
Our celiac boarder ^new
The last iron lungs ^new

Emma Manuel, Eshwar Rajesh

Lucid interval ^new

Medicine and Healthcare then and now

Bitter Medicines

Paul Emile Destouches: can love triumph over disease

Dentistry by candlelight

Home therapy

Physicians disputing while patients suffers

Pulse and urine

The monkey as barber

The waiting room

Travelling healer pulls a tooth

Twelth century manuscript

Waiting for the doctor
Florence Nightingale at Scutari
Hippocrates by the bedside
Mandarin doctor examines the patient’s pulse
Crawford W. Long, first use of ether anesthesia ^new

Hacks and quacks

Areas of the brain

Electrotherapy

James Morrison’s vegetable cure

Medical pseudoscience

Painted pony

Practical hydrotherapy

Spectacle seller

The anatomist

Tuttle’s Family elixir

Using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth
The consultation or last hope, by Thomas Rowlandson (1808)
The two doctors ^new
The old ice box ^new