Incubators at the Maternity Hospital, Port Royal, Paris

Collection:: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):: Froment, Eugene, 1844-1900, engraver
Publication:: [London : s.n.], 1884
Language(s):: English
Format:: Still image
Genre(s):: Pictorial Works
Abstract:: This engraving depicts several "incubators" that were invented at this Paris hospital just four years earlier by Stephane Tarnier. Several nurses are placing babies in the incubators that have thermometers on them.
Copyright:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:: 1 photmechanical print : 30 x 41 cm.
Provenance:: Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
Technique:: wood engraving, black and white
NLM Unique ID:: 101459653 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:: C05555
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101459653

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