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Hypothermia

Images

  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte.
  • A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Hypothermie et chirurgie cardiaque / Yannik Le Corroller.

    Le Corroller, Yannik. | Date: 1956
    • Videos

    Acute hypothermia.

    | Date: 197?/198?
    • Books
    • Online

    Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phænomenis et natura morbi ex submersione oriundi : quam, ... pro gradu doctoris ... eruditorum examini subjicit / Thomas Archibald Murray, Anglus.

    Murray, T. A. (Thomas Archibald), -1802. | Date: 1796
    • Books

    Keep warm, keep well.

    | Date: 1993
    • Books

    A policy for warmth / M. Gray [and others].

    | Date: 1977
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