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Tropical medicine

Images

  • Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Extraction of the filaria from the leg
  • Dermatitis on the back of a man's neck caused by chronic pellagra. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.
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Catalogue

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    Report of first expedition to South America, 1913.

    Harvard School of Tropical Medicine. | Date: 1915
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    Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour.

    Balfour, Andrew. | Date: 1911
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    Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter, M.D.F.R.S. and physician to the army.

    Hunter, John, -1809. | Date: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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    The cures of the diseased in forraine attempts of the English nation : London, 1598. Reproduced in facsimile / with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

    Wateson, George, active 1598-1607. | Date: 1915
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    Tropical diseases : a manual of the diseases of warm climates / by Sir Patrick Manson.

    Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922. | Date: 1907 (repr. 1912)
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