Abnormal condition negatively affecting organisms

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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.

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.

Brevis morbos curandi methodus, dat is, Korte leerwys om ziekten te geneezen / door ... Thomas Sydenham ...; uit het Latyn vertaald ende met eygene geneezingswys der ziekten by gevoegd door Henricus Buyzen.

Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.

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

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

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

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?.

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

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Disease

Images from the collections

Images about Disease

Works from the collections

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

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

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

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?.

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

Disease

Images from the collections

Images about Disease

Works from the collections

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

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

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

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?.

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

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