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Malingering

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Images about Malingering

4 images from works
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, simulates illness to avoid extradition to France. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • An American soldier or airman waiting to see a doctor; warning American servicemen against sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 194-.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.

Works from the collections

54 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

    | Date: 1904-1951 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.114
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Workmen's sickness and accident insurance--second series

    | Date: 1901-1933 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.360/2
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Psychiatry : the science of lies / Thomas Szasz.

    Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012. | Date: 2008
    • Books
    • Online

    Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian Armies / by Henry Marshall.

    Marshall, Henry, 1775-1851. | Date: 1828
    • Books

    La simulazione delle malattie nei suoi aspetti medico sociali attraverso i tempi / F. Raspadori, G. Selmi.

    Raspadori, Francesco. | Date: 1966
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Related topics

Psychophysiologic Disorders
Disease
Hysteria
Military Medicine
Therapeutics
Hysteria
Military Personnel
Brain
Dermatology
France

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