Medical images from the National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Found on the flickr sets for unofficial 'favorite photos' of the staff of the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, in Washington DC: set 1, 2 and 3.

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Orthopedics; feet of Chinese woman, bound, compared with tea cup and American woman's shoe. World War 1 era

See also: Four x-ray views of footbinding, ca. 1948

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Rhinoplasty. Loss of nose due to an injury, and replacement by a finger in 1880. Surgery by Dr. E. Hart, photo by OG Mason, both of Bellevue Hospital, NY

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Ambulance drill. Four litters loaded. World War 1

On the homepage: Masks worn during experiments with Plague. Philippines, probably around 1912.

Via morbid anatomy.

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