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Medical innovations

Images

  • Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Hope in health : the socio-politics of optimism / Alan Petersen.

    Petersen, Alan R., 1953- | Date: 2015
    • Books

    Imperial technoscience : transnational histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India / Amit Prasad.

    Prasad, Amit | Date: [2014]
    • Books

    Opinion on the ethical aspects of nanomedicine, Brussels 17 January 2007 / The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission.

    European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission. | Date: 2007
    • Books

    Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine / by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

    Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe | Date: [2014]
    • Books

    Discovering new worlds in medicine / [editors, Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli, Alberto M. Marmont du Haut Champ].

    | Date: 1991
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