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Iatrogenic Disease

Images

  • A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.
  • A surgeon at Whitworth in County Durham letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse. Coloured etching by H.W., 1791.
  • A doctor asking his messenger if he delivered some medicine to one of his patients. Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

    | Date: 1911-1951 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.83/1
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Occupational and medicative hazards in ophthalmology / edited by J. François.

    European Ophthalmological Society. Congress 1968 : Amsterdam, Netherlands) | Date: 1969
    • Archives and manuscripts

    The capillary circulation etc. The skin microscope. 'Peripheral hearts'

    | Date: 1917-1947 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.52
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    The complications of modern medical practices : a treatise on iatrogenic diseases / David M. Spain.

    Spain, David M. | Date: [1963], ©1963
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Epidemic or 'lethargic' encephalitis and other cases of encephalitis Part I

    | Date: 1918-1951 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.101/1
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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