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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A pyrometer: shown in and out of its box. Engraving, mid eighteenth century.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

The climatic physiology of the pig / by L.E. Mount.

Temperatur und Leben / von H. Precht, J. Christophersen, H. Hensel.

Anabioz / P. I︠U︡. Shmidt.

Caisso, Jean Benjamin (1835-)

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Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

The climatic physiology of the pig / by L.E. Mount.

Temperatur und Leben / von H. Precht, J. Christophersen, H. Hensel.

Anabioz / P. I︠U︡. Shmidt.

Caisso, Jean Benjamin (1835-)