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Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.

A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.

John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

The sphygmograph : its history and use as an aid to diagnosis in ordinary practice / R.E. Dudgeon.

A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1776, after B. West.

A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.

Medical diagnosis : a manual of clinical diagnosis / J.J. Graham Brown.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogels Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Traité du diagnostic médical; ou, de la science des signes propres à destinguer les unes d'avec les autres les maladies qui se ressemblent / Ouvrage traduit de l'allemand ... par Leop. Jos. Renauldin ... avec un discours préliminaire, des notes et des additions du traducteur, et la nomenclature pyrétologique du Prof. Pinel.

Recent advances in medicine : clinical, laboratory, therapeutic / by G.E. Beaumont and E.C. Dodds.

Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.

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Medical diagnosis : a manual of clinical diagnosis / J.J. Graham Brown.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogels Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Recent advances in medicine : clinical, laboratory, therapeutic / by G.E. Beaumont and E.C. Dodds.

Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.