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Images

  • Three Turkish soldiers gathered round a fire in the dark, smoking pipes. Lithograph by T. Allom, ca. 1839.
  • A Turkish (?) man carrying a bowl. Gouache.
  • Constantinople: a man sits to write a letter as two women watch over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs.
  • A Turkish attendant. Watercolour.
  • A Red Crescent nurse is sitting at the bedside of a wounded soldier with a bandage over his eyes; she is reading him a letter. Colour process print.
  • A Turkish (?) woman carrying a coffee pot. Gouache.
  • After healing a lame man, the apostles Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for gods at Lystra; the priest brings them a sacrifice of oxen. Etching after Raphael.
  • Physicians, representing the Holy League against the Turks, gather around the sick sultan; representing the Peace of Karlowitz. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, ca. 1700.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
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Catalogue

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    Türk eczacılık tarihi bibliografyası üzerine bir deneme (1927-2008) = a bibliographical essay on the history of pharmacy in Turkey (1927-2008) / Gülbin Özçelicay, Halil Tekiner.

    Özçelikay, Gülbin | Date: 2009
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    Aspectos médicos e higiénicos del Viaje de Turquía (1557) / Washington Buño, Rosa Buceta de Bũno.

    Buño, Washington | Date: [1985], ©1985
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    Intestinal obstruction : a paradigm of earlier influences on the medicine of late Byzantium / John Lascaratos, Spyros Marketos.

    Laskaratos, Iōannēs G | Date: 1999
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    Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn.

    Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri, 1971- | Date: [2009], ©2009
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    400 üncü yil dönümü dolayisile Haseki Hastanesi tarihçesi : 1539-1939 / A. Süheyl Ünver.

    Ünver, A. Süheyl (Ahmet Süheyl), 1898-1986 | Date: 1939
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