How was medicine during and after the industrial revolution?
World's first successful blood transfusion
Figure from Dr. Blundell’s article in the June 13, 1829 issue of The Lancet, “Observations on Transfusion of Blood.”
Cholera in the 191h century
John Snow born 15 March 1813
Charles I Triple Portrait
Charles I in Three Positions, also known as the Triple portrait of Charles I, is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, showing the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. [more]
First x-ray tube
from the Museum of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Würzburg, Germany. These first generation 'cold cathode' x-ray tubes were used from the 1890s until about 1920.
First x-ray
On 5 January 1896, an Austrian newspaper
The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!
scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women
1802
Antiseptic/Pasteur’s germ theory
the spring of 1867
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
First world transfusion on humans
Figure from Dr. Blundell’s article in the June 13, 1829 issue of The Lancet, “Observations on Transfusion of Blood.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
