Medical History Lover Prints

Early Blood Draw

"We're doing everything we can to make him comfortable, short of dressing up as male doctors."

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

Cures for Ye Plague

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

'These young doctors know nothing, I used to see 500 patients every day...'

Edward Jenner

Leeches, lucky charms, rat catching. The secretary of health is in.

"Trepanning for gold"

'Medical science is this close to finding a cure for the common evil vapors.'

'The doctors ruled out a remarkable recovery. You'll get better, they just don't think it'll be all that remarkable.'

John Snow

Covid Vaccines

"Milton finally found a doctor he can trust - one who still believes in the healing power of money."

Asylum; May contain patients with mental problems.

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

'In this practice we like to have the best of the old with the best of the new.'

"So why is it that we only get to see you whenever you need a gruesome amputation?"

Consultation of Physicians.

Antique Ailments

"We use leeches on the test subjects and slugs on the control group."

"We'll be performing the operation using original instruments."

Early Anaesthesia

Florence Nightingale

"You've omitted your previous patient experience and recommendations from two other doctors."

"They just don't make 'em like Doc Malone anymore!"

"How come we don't start plagues any more? Are we one of those boring couples?"

Press Conference

"On certain types of wounds we use lawyers instead of leeches because lawyers never seem to get their fill of blood..."

Lady Physicians

Hippocrates

"The small neat scar was from the surgery. The long jagged scar is where I sneezed."

2020's Bug Bear

Historic Medical Moments: The first time a body rejected a heart before it was transplanted.

Rene Laennec