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Images about Colic

10 images from works
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
  • Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Devils saw away at a colic sufferer's abdomen. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, 1833.
  • Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Works from the collections

15 works

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    Disputatio medica de dolore colico : Quam Deo dante sub praesidio nobilissimi, expertissimi acutissimique viri D. Theodori Craanen ... publico examini subjicit Martin Schepel, Wismariensis. Ad diem 7 Iulii horâ & loco solitis.

    Schepel, Martin, active 1683. | Date: M DC LXXXIII. [1683]
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    De colica paretico-epileptica ... / Samuel Herzog.

    Herzog, Samuel, active 1697-1698. | Date: 1698
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    Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

    | Reference: 47090i
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    Dissertatio medica inauguralis de colica pictonum : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate ... Gulielmi Taylor ... pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit J. Venancius Pereira, Lusitanus.

    Pereira, J. Venantius. | Date: 1807
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    A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.

    Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. | Reference: 10743i

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