Condition caused when the human body gets too cold

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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.

Hypothermie et chirurgie cardiaque / Yannik Le Corroller.

Acute hypothermia.

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

Keep warm, keep well.

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

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Hypothermia

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Hypothermie et chirurgie cardiaque / Yannik Le Corroller.

Acute hypothermia.

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

Keep warm, keep well.

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

Hypothermia

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hypothermia

Works from the collections

Hypothermie et chirurgie cardiaque / Yannik Le Corroller.

Acute hypothermia.

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

Keep warm, keep well.

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

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