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Patients

Person who takes a medical treatment or is subject of a case study

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Images from the collections

Images featuring Patients

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  • A terrified patient misunderstanding his doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after G.S. Dixon, 1924.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • 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.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Hopîtal Royal de Bicêtre, Paris: patients exercising in the grounds. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1829, after T. Nash.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of a country squire; the smug doctor receives a drink from the butler while his disgruntled patient's medicine is prepared by the maid. Lithograph by W. Hunt, 1825, after H.W. Bunbury.
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Works from the collections

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1 work

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    • Online

    My doctors / by a patient ; with frontispiece by G. DuMaurier.

    | Date: 1891

1,053 works

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    The deaths of the kings of England / by James Rae.

    | James Rae | Date: 1913
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    • Online

    A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

    | David Teniers the Younger | Reference: 22594i
    • Books

    Der Pazjent als Psychiater : Oskar Panizzas Weg vom Irrenarzt zum Insassen / Jürgen Müller.

    | Jürgen Müller | Date: [1999]
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    • Online

    The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

    | Fowler, Russell S. (Russell Story), 1874-1959 | Date: 1906
    • Books

    Beat Alzheimer's with puzzles / Kalman Toth, M.A., M. Phil.

    | Toth, Kalman (Computer scientist) | Date: [2016]
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Related topics

Physicians
Hospitals
Nurses
Surgeons
History, 19th Century
Costume
Soldiers
House furnishings
Hospital wards
Surgical Instruments

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