A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
    

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Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.

Tropical Diseases, Elephantiasis of the scrotum.

Gerardi van Swieten Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos, de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.

Diseases of infants and children / by Henry Dwight Chapin and Godfrey Roger Pisek.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

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Diseases of infants and children / by Henry Dwight Chapin and Godfrey Roger Pisek.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.