history of medicine: Media
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Learn about ancient Greek medicine.
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Learn how to effectively use antibiotics.
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How anesthesia works.
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Images
Edward Jenner vaccinating his child against smallpox; colored engraving.
Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0)
A surgeon performs a trepanning procedure on a patient by drilling into his skull....
Wellcome Collection, London (CC BY 4.0)
Egyptian architect, physician, and statesman Imhotep reading a papyrus roll, detail...
Ägyptisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
A prescription for asthma treatment in the Ebers papyrus, an Egyptian compilation...
Wellcome Collection, London
A woman places leeches on her forearm, depicted in a woodcut from Guillaume van den...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Acupuncture points, drawing from a Chinese manuscript; in the Bibliothèque Nationale...
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Asclepius, from an ivory diptych, 5th century ce;...
The Bridgeman Art Library/Art Resource, New York
Plato (center left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco...
Art Media—Print Collector/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images
Roger Bacon, oil on canvas by Ernest Board; in the Wellcome Library, London. 91.9...
Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0)
St. Albertus Magnus, detail of a fresco by Tommaso da Modena, c. 1352; in the Church...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
In the 16th century Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius revolutionized the practice...
© Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com
Engraving depicting experiments that William Harvey cited to support his theory of...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
William Hunter, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the Hunterian...
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
A stethoscope made of a single hollow tube of wood and brass, belonging to French...
Science Museum London
Claude Bernard, illustration of a statue.
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
The hypothesis of spontaneous generation posited that living organisms develop from...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
American dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton administering ether anesthesia...
Science History Images/Alamy
The first X-ray was captured by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Historia-Photo
South African-born American microbiologist Max Theiler developed a vaccine against...
Courtesy Rockefeller Archive Center (www.rockarch.org/)
The remote peninsula of Kalaupapa on Molokai, Hawaii, was the site of a leper colony...
Hawaii State Archives (PP-57-6-027)
Marie Curie driving a car converted into a mobile radiological unit used to treat...
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