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  • Chinese woodcut: Prognosis by finger inspection
  • Divinatory effigy used by the Yarsi for prognosis of disease.
  • A professor asking a medical student his prognosis for a particular case. Coloured process print, 1900.
  • A doctor and colonel discussing the medical prognosis of the new (modern) woman. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1895.
  • A physician holds up a urine flask to the light, while another scholar reads the properties of urine from a book. Woodcut, 1531.
  • A doctor tells an obese lady all the possible horrendous diseases she might have. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].
  • Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].
  • Physiognomic chart: disgnostic correlations of facial sectors
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
  • An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: physicians and surgeons treating the sick. Watercolour, 19--, after Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th century.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th century.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th century.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 17th century.
  • Chinese woodcut: 'Bee's nest' and 'Well' abscesses
  • A woman in a pharmacy with a urine flask and a monkey holding an empty flask at a casement. Oil painting by Willem Joseph Laquy, 1780 (?), after J. Toorenvliet, 1677.
  • A man examining a urine flask. Oil painting after B. van den Bossche.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- 'Lotus Seed' abscess
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- postauricular abscesses, etc.
  • Detecting cancer in human tissues, LM
  • Detecting colon cancer in human tissues, LM
  • Petrus de Montagnana. Photograph after a woodcut, 1495.
  • Chinese woodcut: Jade Pillow abscess and Calamitous abscess
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.
  • "The physician's verdict". Oil painting by Emile Carolus Leclercq, 1857.