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René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Heliogravure after a painting by T. Chartran.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Reproduction after a painting by T. Chartran.

A physician examining a gypsy child with a stethoscope outside a tent on the side of the road. Halftone by Swain after W. Small, 1898.

World War One: British prisoners of war at Ruhleben camp being examined for "barbed-wire disease" by a German army officer. Coloured pen and ink drawing by R. Walker, 1917.

James Andrew. Reproduction of mezzotint after J. Collier.

A doctor with a stethoscope rejecting the offer of a cigarette. Colour silk screen print by Olaleye, 195-.

A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.

A stethoscope representing an advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of dying from AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.

Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Connaught Ward, with men patients, members of the medical staff, and nurses. Photograph, 1902.

A mother who has brought her two sons to have their chests examined by a physician to find out if they have tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after L. Raemakers, 19--.

Tentamen medicum inaugurale de stethoscopio ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Calthrop Williams.

Stethoscope : the making of a medical icon / Anna Harris and Tom Rice.

A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tuberculous patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris. Gouache after T. Chartran.

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A mother who has brought her two sons to have their chests examined by a physician to find out if they have tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after L. Raemakers, 19--.

Tentamen medicum inaugurale de stethoscopio ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Calthrop Williams.

Stethoscope : the making of a medical icon / Anna Harris and Tom Rice.

A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tuberculous patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris. Gouache after T. Chartran.