Medicine's great journey. One hundred years of healing.
At the close of the 19th century, bloodletting was state-of-the-art medical practice and life expectancy in the United States was about 40 years. Excerpts from a newly published photo collection chronicle the dizzying changes that have occurred since then.
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history; D006666:History of Medicine; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000266:history*; D010781:Photography