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Concept

Diagnosis

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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.
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Catalogue

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

    Vogel, Samuel Gottlieb von, 1750-1837. | Date: 1796
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    Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques, ou cours de médecine clinique / Par. M.L.. n Rostan.

    Rostan, Léon, 1791?-1866. | Date: 1826
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    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.

    | Date: 1844
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    Nouveaux éléments de pathologie générale et de séméiologie / par E. Bouchout.

    Bouchut, E. (Eugène), 1818-1891. | Date: 1857
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    Samuel Gottlieb Vogel's ... Kranken-Examen, oder, Allgemeine philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der Krankheiten des menschlichen Körpers.

    Vogel, Samuel Gottlieb von, 1750-1837. | Date: 1796
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