Ampitheaters

Operation in the main operating room, an amphitheater, at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, ca. 1902. This image was used in the 18th Annual Report (1902, p.80) of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. The patient was Herman Boldt, assisting at the table was Robert G. Tracy, and at the instrument table was J. Furniss.

Photographic (letterpress halftone) re-print of the main operating room (The Operating Amphitheatre) in operation. Surgeons, assistants and nurses can be seen along with some spectators in the seats to the upper left, rear. This photograph appears in the Annual Report for the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital(1903)

Photograph of Edward Gamaliel Janeway’s clinic being held in one of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College amphitheaters; Dr. Janeway is seated on the right.

Edward Gamaliel Janeway, MD (1841-1911) served as Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Pathology and Practical Anatomy during his time at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College (1881-1907). He served as the first dean of University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College when it merged in 1898. In 1878, Dr. Janeway hired the famous pathologist Dr. William Welch upon his return to the United States. From 1875 to 1881, Dr. Janeway served as the New York City Health Commissioner.

Interior photograph of operating room amphitheater (c. 1880's). Cadaver is visible on operating table alongside suited, doctors in posed positions; full audience of spectators in background.

Interior photograph of operating room amphitheater (c. 1880's). Cadaver is visible on operating table alongside suited, doctors in posed positions; full audience of spectators in background. This image is very similar to 012 .C .c .42 (perhaps taken within the same hour, same day). There is no original only a print of original.

Dr. Stewart conducting a "dry clinic" in one of the amphitheaters.

Dr. Bryant's Clinic. Students observe an operation being performed.

Students watching an operation in the Operating Room Amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital in the 1890's. The dimensions are for the image only, not the board upon which it is mounted.

Interior of Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater. Two doctors and one nurse participating in a procedure with observers in rows behind.