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Physical Examination

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Diagnosis

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Images from the collections

Images about Physical Examination

20 images from works
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • National service (armed forces) act, 1939 : grade card.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • They hopped me here, they hopped me there until I felt quite balmy, they felt my pulse an' tol me to 'Cough!' an' passed me into the army / Inter-Art Co.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Charcoal drawing of a physician examining a boy, by Kollwitz

Works from the collections

232 works

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    Instructions for the medical administration of officers and other ranks 1950 : amendments (No.1) / by command of the Army Council, The War Office.

    | Date: 1951
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    On the physical exploration of the lungs / by George W. Balfour.

    George William Balfour | Date: 1874
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    Muscle testing : techniques of manual examination / Lucille Daniels, Marian Williams, Catherine Worthingham.

    Daniels, Lucille | Date: 1956
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    Hints on the medical examination of recruits for the army : and on the discharge of soldiers from the service on surgeon's certificate : adapted to the service of the United States / by Thomas Henderson.

    Thomas Henderson | Date: 1840
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    A system of personal biologic examinations the condition of adequate medical and scientific conduct of life / George M. Gould.

    Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922. | Date: [1900]
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Related topics

Diagnosis
Thoracic Diseases
Insurance, Life
United Kingdom
Military Personnel
Military Medicine
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Hypoglycemia
Health Services
Diabetes Mellitus

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