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Pulse - Measurement

Images

  • Two physicians in "macaroni" fashions. Etching by J. Johnson after J.W.B. (Bretherton?), 1772.
  • A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sadi Carnot, the president of France, lies in bed having his pulse taken. Lithograph by H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Les pouls en médecine chinoise / [J Borsarello].

    Borsarello, J. | Date: 1981
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A donkey as a physician taking the pulse of a dying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Reference: 18056i
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    A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 24299i
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    Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.

    Collin de Vermont, Hyacinthe, 1693-1761. | Date: [1769?] | Reference: 22177i
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    A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.

    Cynicus, 1854-1932. | Reference: 21924i
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