A doctor, nurses, and several patients on the Children’s Surgical Ward of Bellevue Hospital. Some of the patients are in their cribs or beds, while others are seated in rockers or at tables.
Five doctors operating on a patient. The seated doctor on the far right appears to be administering ether to the patient by holding a cone over his nose and mouth.
Photograph of doctors attending patients in Bellevue Hospital’s Third Medical Division, 21st Ward (the Gynecology Ward) in 1890. A handwritten caption below the image describes the scene.