Description | English: Woman with migraine, from an advertisement for a migraine remedy |
Date | 1913 |
Source | Advertisement for Cérébrine in L’Illustration (https://archive.org/details/illustration3679/3679-000B.jpg) |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Science & Medicine
Scientist with Laboratory Rats

Description | English: Scientist weighing a laboratory rat and discovering that it thrives on yeast, from an advertisement for Fleischmann’s yeast |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n331/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Movie Doctor, by G. Francis Kauffman
Description | English: A movie doctor, by G. Francis Kauffman. “You know him at once by his carriage, by the way he holds his head—and by his black bag. In the movies, doctors always carry black bags” |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag23brew/page/n509/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | G. Francis Kauffman |
Guarding Baby’s Health

Description | English: “Guarding Baby’s Health—and Yours,” from an advertisement for Lysol disinfectant |
Date | 1923 |
Source | Advertisement for Lysol disinfectant in The Delineator (https://archive.org/details/delineator102olou/page/72/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Pregnant Queen
Description | English: Pregnant queen, from the title page of a book of anecdotes of childbirth |
Date | 1892 |
Source | Anecdotes & curiosites historiques sur les accouchements (https://archive.org/details/anecdotescuriosi00witk/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Metal Workshop in 1580
Description | English: Title vignette from a 1580 treatise on mining and metalworking |
Date | 1580 |
Source | Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt vnnd Bergkwercks Arten https://archive.org/details/beschreibungalle00erck/page/n11/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Recipe Marks
Description | English: Recipe (prescription) marks from a 1901 type catalogue |
Date | 1901 |
Source | Pettingill & Co. Copper Alloy Type Book (https://archive.org/details/copperalloytypeb00pett/page/328/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Dr. Washington Epps, My Doctor, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Faust in His Laboratory, by Frédéric Boissonnas

Description | English: Faust dans son laboratoire par Frédéric Boissonnas |
Date | 1899 |
Source | La photographie est-elle un art ? (https://archive.org/details/laphotographiees00lasi/page/10/mode/2up) |
Author | Frédéric Boissonnas |
A Fistful of Radio
Description | English: Hand captures radio waves |
Date | 1919 |
Source | Advertisement in Electrical Experimenter (https://archive.org/details/n2electricalexperi07gern/page/174/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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