The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients awaiting examination and giving their medical history, prior to treatment for rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.

A medical practitioner examines the urine and takes the pulse of a woman, while another man gives her advice. Oil painting in the manner of Jan Steen.

Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, examining a urine flask and surrounded by medical paraphernalia. Engraving by P. Galle (?).

A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book Engraving by J.B. Tardieu after D. Teniers.

Lourdes, France: framed photographic records of cures examined by Dr. Vallet (right) and a second medical man. Photograph, ca. 1937.

A medical practitioner examining the urine and taking the pulse of an elderly man. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Steen.

A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.

A physician lecturing to students about uroscopy, he points to a flask held by an assistant. Heliotype.

Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Audrey and her family

Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

The anatomy of a brain dissection

On the office and duties of coroner : with suggestions for parliamentary inquiry, proposed legislation, and reform of the office / by William Hardwicke.

The office of coroner : a paper read before the Manchester Statistical Society at its meeting, January 10, 1877 / by Edward Herford.

The coroner and the general practitioner.

Second report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.

First report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Audrey and her family

Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

The anatomy of a brain dissection

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On the office and duties of coroner : with suggestions for parliamentary inquiry, proposed legislation, and reform of the office / by William Hardwicke.

The office of coroner : a paper read before the Manchester Statistical Society at its meeting, January 10, 1877 / by Edward Herford.

The coroner and the general practitioner.

Second report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.

First report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.

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Stories

Are doctors medical detectives?

Audrey and her family

Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

The anatomy of a brain dissection

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Catalogue

On the office and duties of coroner : with suggestions for parliamentary inquiry, proposed legislation, and reform of the office / by William Hardwicke.

The office of coroner : a paper read before the Manchester Statistical Society at its meeting, January 10, 1877 / by Edward Herford.

The coroner and the general practitioner.

Second report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.

First report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to coroners and coroners' inquests, and into the practice in coroners' courts.