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  • Two thermometers. Process print, 1910/1940?.
  • An advertisement for a maker of glass instruments: showing thermometers, hour-glasses, and barometers. Engraving.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Thermometer, Sanctorius, 1626.
  • Surface Thermometer; centigrade maximum 1/10.
  • Thermometer of the type described by James Currie, circa 1800
  • A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • DMA 58 : precision density meter with built-in thermostat and built-in precision thermometer / Anton Paar K.G.
  • DMA 58 : precision density meter with built-in thermostat and built-in precision thermometer / Anton Paar K.G.
  • A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.
  • A mobile milk control field laboratory, Pennsylvania: two men wearing white suits take a large thermometer from the back of the van. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A nurse uses a stethoscope on a child with a thermometer in his mouth: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • What the doctor found : in the body of Frank Wilson, who was operated on for appendicitis in a hospital at Cairo (Ill.), were found:- a button hook, a hat pin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a toy pistol, three small nails, a needle, a thermometer.
  • A doctor places a thermometer in a female patient's mouth, an emaciated man and a skin rash representing a message about symptoms that suggest you have AIDS; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.
  • A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.
  • A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.
  • On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry / by Dr. C. A. Wunderlich ; translated from the second German edition by W. Bathurst Woodman.
  • On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry / by Dr. C. A. Wunderlich ; translated from the second German edition by W. Bathurst Woodman.
  • A doctor takes the temperature of a gloomy patient. Reproduction of a drawing by G. Jennis, 1919.
  • Beta-Corlan Pellets : specific treatment for apthous ulcers.
  • Beta-Corlan Pellets : specific treatment for apthous ulcers.
  • A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.
  • For intensive bactericidal activity : Crystamycin : penicillin plus streptomycin combined in one injection.
  • For intensive bactericidal activity : Crystamycin : penicillin plus streptomycin combined in one injection.
  • Good nights bright awakenings calm days with Tricloryl tablets and syrup : new non-barbiturate hypnotic/sedative with wide margin of safety.