A patient gets an innoculation. Click through the gallery to see some vintage visits to the doctor, in the days when patients thought the doctor was always right.
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A patient gets an innoculation. Click through the gallery to see some vintage visits to the doctor, in the days when patients thought the doctor was always right.
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A young woman sits cross-legged on a examination table as a doctor looks inside her mouth at the Free People's Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971.
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A young woman sits cross-legged on a examination table as a doctor looks inside her mouth at the Free People's Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971.
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A patient talks to her physician in 1950.
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A patient talks to her physician in 1950.
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A doctor performs a chest examination in 1948.
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A doctor performs a chest examination in 1948.
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A teenage boy is vaccinated against smallpox by a doctor and a county health nurse in Gasport, New York, in 1938.
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A teenage boy is vaccinated against smallpox by a doctor and a county health nurse in Gasport, New York, in 1938.
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A doctor checks a patient's blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer in 1936.
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A doctor checks a patient's blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer in 1936.
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A young patient gets his ears examined in 1935.
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A young patient gets his ears examined in 1935.
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A doctor examines the throat of a young woman using a small pen light around 1927.
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A doctor examines the throat of a young woman using a small pen light around 1927.
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