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Disease

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Images from the collections

Images about Disease

140 images from works
  • Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.
  • Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.
  • Tropical Diseases, Elephantiasis of the scrotum.
  • Gerardi van Swieten Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos, de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.
  • Gerardi van Swieten Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos, de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Medical and chirurgical observations, as an appendix to a former publication / by Benjamin Gooch.
  • The maze of trees, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
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Works from the collections

2,006 works

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    • Online

    Diseases of infants and children / by Henry Dwight Chapin and Godfrey Roger Pisek.

    Chapin, Henry Dwight, 1857-1942. | Date: [1909], ©1909
    • Books
    • Online

    The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

    Haviland, Alfred, -1903. | Date: 1875
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Taddei, N. ( -1781)

    Taddei, N., d.1781 | Date: 1772 | Reference: MS.4758
    • Pictures

    A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

    | Date: [1920/1940?] | Reference: 573587i
    • Books
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    Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

    | Date: 1890
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Related topics

Chinese
Congenital, Hereditary and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Developmental Disabilities
Dermatology
Blood
Skin
Neurology
Neoplasms
Blood Circulation

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