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  • A physician examines a patient's tongue. Lithograph by Charles Vernier, 1853.
  • John Abernethy. Coloured etching by S. W. Fores, 1825.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman who shows him her tongue. Drawing by M. von Luttich.
  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.
  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.
  • A group of physicians trying to diagnose a young woman's illness in a scene from Molière's L'amour médecin. Etching attributed to G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse and times it with a sand-glass, a woman looks on over the chair-back. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse and times it with a sand-glass, a woman looks on over the chair-back. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse and times it with a sand-glass, a woman looks on over the chair-back. Coloured lithograph.
  • A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
  • Acute pathologies, postpartum illness, Chinese lithograph
  • Lupus ulcer on the tongue
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External eye - 'Reversed eyelid'
  • Acute pathologies, thoracic oppression, Chinese lithograph
  • Tongue morphology, Chinese woodcut
  • Case of progressive bulbar paralysis.
  • Tongue of a boy with 'wandering rash'
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • Warty, papillated growth on tongue
  • Translucent cyst under the tongue of a girl
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • Ulcerated mucous patches on the tongue
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscess obstructing the throat
  • Physiognomy chart, Chinese woodcut, late Ming