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Videos
How anesthesia works.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Discover some of the many roles women played in the American Civil War—from nurses...
Video: © Civil War Trust (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
Nurse using a sphygmomanometer to check a patient's blood pressure.
© Prostock-Studio—iStock/Getty Images
Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari (Üsküdar), writing letters...
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
Stephen Girard, lithograph by A. Newsam after a portrait by B. Otis
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
A child receiving a UNICEF-funded tuberculosis vaccine at a school in Bulacan province,...
© UNICEF/ICEF-2539
American Red Cross poster promoting a Christmas seal campaign to raise money to fight...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-43170)
U.S. Army Nurse Corps poster from World War II reading “More nurses are...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
A nurse (right) and doctor preparing a hospital patient for an MRI.
© Epstock/Dreamstime.com
A home-care nurse listening to a patient's lungs with a stethoscope.
© Dean Mitchell/Shutterstock.com
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