Flickr houses Historic Medical Photographs.
I found this interesting post over at Medgadget…
“The National Museum of Health and Medicine has been uploading pictures to Flickr since September 2006. We’ve transcribed, of course, all information that we have for each picture, but have also been posting some for which we have relatively little information, such as Library of Congress is doing, with the hope that a Flickr user will recognize them and be able to tell us more.
We’ve been uploading the hard way, mostly one picture at a time, choosing from among the several hundred thousand we’ve been digitizing over the last three years. Until that database goes live, this is our way of sharing our favorite photos from our many collections.So I had to head over and check it out. It’s a fascinating collection of medical images ranging from medical tools used in the Roman era to surgery in the Vietnam War. “
Here’s a few of the images that caught my eye…
(Korean battle amputees learn to walk again with artificial limbs)
(fractured jaw alignment and immobilization apparatus)
(Man with polio in iron lung, with family and nurse nearby)
Boy, we sure have come a long way with medical technology.
You can check out the NHMH collection of medical photographs here, here, and here.
Kelly Townsend
The WTF is strong within that first picture, they’re walking so casually and its just so random that I don’t even know.