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First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin
Pinel releasing mental patients from shackles in France, 1796Philippe Pinel releasing mental patients at La Salpetriere from their bonds, 1796. Hand-colored 19th-century halftone reproduction of a painting
Child inoculated with smallpox vaccine, 1870Physician vaccinating a baby against smallpox, circa 1870. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Strait jacket used on a mentally ill patientInsane asylum use of the strait jacket to restrain patients, New York City, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration
Smallpox inoculation using live vaccine from a calfVaccination using live virus in a physicians office during a smallpox panic, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Blackwells Island Lunatic Asylum, New York City, 1860sPatients in the yard of Blackwells Island Lunatic Asylum, New York harbor, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration