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  • Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.
  • A woman holding a man's head while he is sick into a bowl. Coloured lithograph.
  • André-Marie-Constant Duméril. Lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after N.H. Jacob.
  • William Hunter. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after M. Chamberlin.
  • Antoine Petit. Line engraving by P. Laurent after A. Pujos, 1774.
  • François Magendie. Lithograph by J. Boilly.
  • François Magendie. Lithograph by J. Boilly.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
  • A man is leading a woman and her baby on a donkey with their belongings and a flock of sheep, attended by other people. Engraving by P. Laurent after P.J. de Loutherbourg, ca. 1777.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • Henri Grandjean. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after F.B. Deshays, 1779.
  • Henri Grandjean. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after F.B. Deshays, 1779.