Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.

Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.

Bedford hospital: view of grounds. Lithograph after J. Sunman Austin, 1850.

Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu / [Thomas Sydenham].

A small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou.

A child asleep under a mosquito net and treating the net: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Malaria Control Programme, ca. 2000.

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem / Authore Thoma Sydenham.

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A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften / von J.R. Mayer.

Recherches sur la fièvre hectique, considérée comme dépdendante d'une lésion d'action des différens systêmes, sans vice organique / Par F.J.V. Broussais.

Fièvre de la dentition et ses rapports avec la fièvre intermittente : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 25 juillet 1904 / par Joseph Gazet du Chatelier.

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Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague : with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

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A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften / von J.R. Mayer.

Recherches sur la fièvre hectique, considérée comme dépdendante d'une lésion d'action des différens systêmes, sans vice organique / Par F.J.V. Broussais.

Fièvre de la dentition et ses rapports avec la fièvre intermittente : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 25 juillet 1904 / par Joseph Gazet du Chatelier.

Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague : with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

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A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften / von J.R. Mayer.

Recherches sur la fièvre hectique, considérée comme dépdendante d'une lésion d'action des différens systêmes, sans vice organique / Par F.J.V. Broussais.

Fièvre de la dentition et ses rapports avec la fièvre intermittente : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 25 juillet 1904 / par Joseph Gazet du Chatelier.

Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague : with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

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