Medical instruments and apparatus

A nurse stands near a piece of equipment in the operating room of the Babies’ Wards at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. This photograph was published with the caption “The Operating Room (Babies’ Wards)” on page 57 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1903.

Interior view of the operating room for the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Department of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. This photograph was published on page 32 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1904.

Several doctors in the clinic room of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital Nose and Throat Department. A woman and adolescent girl are also present. This photograph was published with the caption “Clinic Room, Nose and Throat Department” on page 96 of the Annual Report of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1904.

Lewis Albert Sayre, MD (1820-1900), observes the change in the curvature of the spine as a patient self-suspends herself prior to being wrapped in Sayre's plaster of Paris bandage treatment. Dr. Sayre served as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1897 and as Emeritus Professor from 1897 to 1898.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital’s House Staff, Fourth Medical Division, 1910, posed in an operating room in their surgical gowns. Caption reads: “Fourth Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1910. John F. McGrath, Thomas McCrae, Robert Wylie (gynecologist), Cyrus F. Wade, Lawrence H. Rogers.” The nurses pictured are not named in the caption.