Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

1900

1 print : halftone ; image 22.5 x 31 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/76/32

Hospital scenes in South Africa: the morning gargle ... drawn by F. de Haenen from a photograph by a British officer Lettering continues: "convalescent fever patients are made to gargle every morning with an antiseptic. it is a nasty business, but the soldiers always obey orders, whether they be those of a superior officer or of the doctor"

Wellcome Collection 23529i