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Physical diagnosis

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  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
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    A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563243i
    Part of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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    A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

    Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945. | Date: 22 March 1902 | Reference: 17149i
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    A text-book of medical diagnosis / by James M. Anders and L. Napoleon Boston ; with 418 illustrations in the text and 25 plates, 17 of them in colors.

    Anders, James M. (James Meschter), 1854-1936. | Date: 1911
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    World War Two: three medical inspections of prisoners of war in a dilapidated room. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

    Rawlings, Leo, -1990. | Date: 1944 | Reference: 24139i
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    Clinical guidelines : diagnostic and treatment manual : for curative programs in rural hospitals, dispensaries and refugee camps : for the use of doctors and nurses / [editor, J.C. Desenclos ; French-English translation coordinated by P. Hakewill, J. Porter and R. Kessell].

    | Date: 1993
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