“For God’s sake send some Ice to these suffering men.”
When faced with disease accompanied by a fever, Civil War doctors could do little but make patients as comfortable as possible. Ice helped hold down fever and quench...
A surprise visit
In December 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a surprise visit to South Vietnam to raise troop morale. In this photograph the President poses with nurses at a...
An appeal to Southern women
This circular asks Confederate women to provide an “essential service” by growing garden poppies that could then be processed into opiates such as morphine....
Community hospital
Pictured in this October 1924, photograph are a maternity patient and medical staff in the Hutchinson, Minnesota, community hospital. This photograph is among the...
Cutting up
This photograph of a hospital operating room in Van Wert, Ohio was taken in 1924. It is part of a series of photographs taken by an agricultural agency to show life...
Dr. Mary Walker
Dr. Mary Walker, first woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor, is shown here wearing the medal, ca. 1866.
From fighting wars to fighting tuberculosis
This store, near Ruidoso, New Mexico, was photographed as part of a collection of photographs highlighting the advancements of public health and sanitation in the...