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Body Fluids

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Images from the collections

Images about Body Fluids

15 images from works
  • The four elements, four qualities, four humours, four seasons, and four ages of man. Airbrush by Lois Hague, 1991.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A young man returning from the hunt; representing the season spring. Engraving after Joachim von Sandrart I, ca. 1700.
  • A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A young man and a woman finish painting a poster advertisement about AIDS featuring a body with crossed out symbols; a young man and woman on the left discuss the issues raised in the poster with their colleagues; an advertisement about AIDS and youths by Federal Agency for Clear Health, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health. Colour lithograph, 1988.
  • The four elements, four qualities, four humours, four seasons, and four ages of man. Airbrush by Lois Hague, 1991.

Works from the collections

128 works

    • Books

    La renaissance de la médecine humorale.

    Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954. | Date: 1935
    • Books

    Splendid stomach.

    Jenkins, Emma | Date: [201-?]
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    Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

    | Reference: 22307i
    • Books

    Water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance : normal and pathologic physiology as a basis for therapy / Harry F. Weisberg.

    Weisberg, Harry F. | Date: 1962
    • Books

    Fluid balance handbook for practitioners / by William D. Snively, Jr., and Michael J. Sweeney; illustrations by Kathleen Calhoun.

    Snively, William Daniel, 1911- | Date: [1956]

Related topics

Electrolytes
Physiology
Water-Electrolyte Balance
Astrology
Medicine, Traditional
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Human Body
Blood
Urology
Therapeutics, Surgical

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