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Tokushi Kango Fujinkai ni okeru kifujin senshōsha no shujutsu kaiho: senbotsu kinen = Ladies of Volunteer Nurses Association assisting at surgical operations

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Alternate Title(s):
Ladies of Volunteer Nurses Association assisting at surgical operations
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Japan. Teishinshō, issuing body.
Publication:
[Tōkyō] : Teishinshō, [between 1904 and 1905]
Language(s):
Japanese
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses
Operating Room Nursing
Operating Rooms
Volunteers
Organizations, Nonprofit
Surgeons
Japan
Tokushi Kango Fujinkai.
Genre(s):
Postcards
Abstract:
Postcard features a photograph of 4 nurses assisting 2 surgeons in an operating room during surgery on a wounded solider. The nurses are Japanese royals who belong to "Tokushi Kango Fujinkai" (Japanese Volunteer Nurses Association), founded in 1887. In the right top corner of the postcard is the Red Cross symbol; and on the bottom right corner is a nursing cap.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 postcard : 9 x 14 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
color
NLM Unique ID:
101659698 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
D04794
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101659698