Conclusion resulting from diagnostic procedure to determine a disease or disorder

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Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.

A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.

John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.

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 when ever he saw her. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1776, after B. West.

A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.

Antiochus is reclining on a bed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse; King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are seated at his bedside. Engraving by L. de Visscher after P. Berrettini da Cortona, ca. 1680.

A puzzled physician taking the pulse of a young female patient, a boy in the backgroung is pointing to arrows, suggesting that the malady is lovesickness. Engraving by S. Freeman after J. Opie.

The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogels Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.

Glossology, or, The additional means of diagnosis of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the tongue : read before the Senior Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 4th November, 1843 / by Benjamin Ridge.

Nouveaux éléments de pathologie générale et de séméiologie / par E. Bouchout.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogel's ... Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

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Diagnosis

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Samuel Gottlieb Vogels Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.

Glossology, or, The additional means of diagnosis of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the tongue : read before the Senior Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 4th November, 1843 / by Benjamin Ridge.

Nouveaux éléments de pathologie générale et de séméiologie / par E. Bouchout.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogel's ... Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Diagnosis

Images from the collections

Images about Diagnosis

Works from the collections

Samuel Gottlieb Vogels Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.

Glossology, or, The additional means of diagnosis of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the tongue : read before the Senior Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 4th November, 1843 / by Benjamin Ridge.

Nouveaux éléments de pathologie générale et de séméiologie / par E. Bouchout.

Samuel Gottlieb Vogel's ... Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

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