War and Medicine press images
Radiographer
Radiographer wearing protective
clothing and headpiece, World War I, France.
Credit: HJ
Hickman, c.1918
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Hunger
‘Hunger’, 1919. Lithograph, plate 4
from the portfolio ‘Hell’ by Max Beckmann.
Credit: Christopher
Irrgang;Collection Hegewisch/Hamburger Kunsthalle
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A Saline Bath
1943 oil on canvas by Alfred
Thomson.
Credit: Imperial War
Museum, London. Copyright: IWM ART LD 3629, IWM reproduction
right
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Facial plaster cast
Facial plaster cast of Private G J
Wallace, 1918.
Credit: Gillies
Archives, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup (copy of original in RACS
Melbourne)
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The Greatest Mother in the
World
‘The Greatest Mother in the World’,
1918. Poster by Alonso Foringer.
Credit: Imperial War
Museum, London. Reproduced with kind permission from the British
Red Cross Society.
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An operation for appendicitis
An operation for appendicitis at the
Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis
Dodd, 1917.
Credit: Wellcome
Library, London
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Painted tin face, 1918
This mask was made at the Queen’s
Hospital, Sidcup by dental technician Archie Lane. During World War
I the Queen’s Hospital became established as the leading centre in
the UK for maxillofacial and plastic surgery. From 1917 to 1921 it
admitted over 5000 servicemen to its wards.
Credit: Gillies Archives, Queen Mary's Hospital,
Sidcup UK
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