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Hand-drawn illustration using ink and watercolour on paper. 'Sick!' depicts a female patient leaning forward over a bowl, throwing up an assortment of items including tablets, pills and syringes. A yellow arrow indicates the path the objects take.



Following hip-replacement surgery, the artist recorded her experiences and emotions during her post-operative recovery. One of the most inconvenient and humiliating experiences was the frequent vomiting, which came as a side-effect of the pain relieving drugs administered after surgery.

Vomiting and sickness, artwork

Woodcut of two men drinking, overconsuming and vomiting.

Woodcut of drinking and vomiting

Woodcut of drunken man vomiting.

Young Spaniard suffering from cholera with ecchymosis, vomiting black fluid. Abb 11, page 86.

Illustration from Kranken-Physiognomik / by von K. H. Baumgärtner / 1929.



First edition of volume was published in 1838, second edition in 1841.

Man with cholera vomiting black fluid.

Veronal in the vomiting of pregnancy

Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.

Medication chart: Vomiting, coughing, sore throat, jaundice. From a manuscript copy of Shanghan diandian jin shu (The Gold-dust Book of Cold Damage) dated '1st year of the Zhengyuan reign period of the Yuan dynasty' (1341), section entitled Shanghan diandian jin yongyao muji (Cold Damage Gold-Dust Repertory of Medication). The text states: Vomiting illnesses are normally treated with Five-Drug powder (wu ling san) or decoction of bamboo leaf and gypsum. For vomiting illnesses with cold, the usual treatment is Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities decoction (sini tang), evodia decoction (wuzhuyu tang), etc. Coughing involving the Greater Yang channel (taiyang jing) is usually treated with lesser Blue-Green Dragon decoction (xiao qingling tang), Minor Bupleurum Decoction (xiao chaihu tang), etc. If the Lesser Yin channel is involved, the usual treatment is True Warrior decoction (zhen wu tang), Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities Decoction (sini tang), etc. For sore throat due to cold damage to the kidney, the usual treatment is pinellia, cassia and liquorice decoction (banxia guigan tang) or Four Retrograde/Cold Extremities decoction (sini tang). For Yang poison syndrome sore throat, cohosh decoction (shengma tang), cimicifuga), rhubarb decoction, Cape jasmine seed decoction (zhizi ren tang), etc., is used. For Lesser Yin (shaoyin) syndrome sore throat, liquorice decoction, etc. is used. For jaundice due to cold damage, Five-Drug powder with capillary artemisia (wu ling san jia yinchen), capillary artemisia and wormwood decoction (yinchen hao tang) decoction, or ephedra, forsythia and adsuki bean decoction (mahuang lianqiao chi xiaodou tang) is used. If there are symptoms of madness, this is evidence of either Yang poison, blood amassment (xuxue) or fire malignity (huoxie).

C14 Chinese medication chart: Vomiting, coughing etc.

The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners

The vomiting of pregnancy : its causes and treatment

A case of stercoraceous vomiting due to eyestrain

Réponse de G. [i.e. J.] Th. Marquais, chirurgien, au Mémoire de M. Magendie ... sur le vomissement, lu à l'Institut le 1er mars 1813, et au Rapport fait à cette Société savante, par MM. Cuvier, Pinel, Humbold et Percy.

Disputatio medica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

De vomituum diversis speciebus accuratius distinguendis : theses ex anatomia et chirurgia tum practica tum forensi, die Veneris 18â mensis Augusti, anno 1786, à sesqui-secundâ post meridiem ad septimam, propugnandae.

Disputatio physiologica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

Lettre à Monsieur J. Th. Marquais, chirurgien à Paris, auteur d'une Réponse au Mémoire de M. Magendie, sur le vomissement.

De causa proxima vomitus : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ...

Étude expérimentale sur les actes mécaniques du vomissement

Veram vomitus theoriam ...

An experimental investigation on diarrhoea and vomiting of children

Dissertatio medico-practica inauguralis de vomitu ...

Vomitus adumbratio pathologica : dissertatio inauguralis medica ...

Further contributions to our knowledge of the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy

A bottle of medicine on top of the mantlepiece is labelled: "Gargle"

An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.

A woman holding the head of a man who is vomiting. Gouache painting.

Le vomissement chez le nourrisson : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 10 avril 1908

Vomiting and sickness, artwork

Woodcut of drinking and vomiting

Woodcut of drunken man vomiting.

Man with cholera vomiting black fluid.

Veronal in the vomiting of pregnancy

Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.

C14 Chinese medication chart: Vomiting, coughing etc.

The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners

The vomiting of pregnancy : its causes and treatment

A case of stercoraceous vomiting due to eyestrain

Réponse de G. [i.e. J.] Th. Marquais, chirurgien, au Mémoire de M. Magendie ... sur le vomissement, lu à l'Institut le 1er mars 1813, et au Rapport fait à cette Société savante, par MM. Cuvier, Pinel, Humbold et Percy.

Disputatio medica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

De vomituum diversis speciebus accuratius distinguendis : theses ex anatomia et chirurgia tum practica tum forensi, die Veneris 18â mensis Augusti, anno 1786, à sesqui-secundâ post meridiem ad septimam, propugnandae.

Disputatio physiologica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

Lettre à Monsieur J. Th. Marquais, chirurgien à Paris, auteur d'une Réponse au Mémoire de M. Magendie, sur le vomissement.

De causa proxima vomitus : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ...

Étude expérimentale sur les actes mécaniques du vomissement

Veram vomitus theoriam ...

An experimental investigation on diarrhoea and vomiting of children

Dissertatio medico-practica inauguralis de vomitu ...

Vomitus adumbratio pathologica : dissertatio inauguralis medica ...

Further contributions to our knowledge of the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy

An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.

A woman holding the head of a man who is vomiting. Gouache painting.

Le vomissement chez le nourrisson : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 10 avril 1908

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Vomiting and sickness, artwork

Woodcut of drinking and vomiting

Woodcut of drunken man vomiting.

Man with cholera vomiting black fluid.

Veronal in the vomiting of pregnancy

Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.

C14 Chinese medication chart: Vomiting, coughing etc.

The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners

The vomiting of pregnancy : its causes and treatment

A case of stercoraceous vomiting due to eyestrain

Réponse de G. [i.e. J.] Th. Marquais, chirurgien, au Mémoire de M. Magendie ... sur le vomissement, lu à l'Institut le 1er mars 1813, et au Rapport fait à cette Société savante, par MM. Cuvier, Pinel, Humbold et Percy.

Disputatio medica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

De vomituum diversis speciebus accuratius distinguendis : theses ex anatomia et chirurgia tum practica tum forensi, die Veneris 18â mensis Augusti, anno 1786, à sesqui-secundâ post meridiem ad septimam, propugnandae.

Disputatio physiologica inauguralis, de vomitu ...

Lettre à Monsieur J. Th. Marquais, chirurgien à Paris, auteur d'une Réponse au Mémoire de M. Magendie, sur le vomissement.

De causa proxima vomitus : dissertatio inauguralis pathologico-medica ...

Étude expérimentale sur les actes mécaniques du vomissement

Veram vomitus theoriam ...

An experimental investigation on diarrhoea and vomiting of children

Dissertatio medico-practica inauguralis de vomitu ...

Vomitus adumbratio pathologica : dissertatio inauguralis medica ...

Further contributions to our knowledge of the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy

An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.

A woman holding the head of a man who is vomiting. Gouache painting.

Le vomissement chez le nourrisson : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 10 avril 1908

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