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Feces

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Images from the collections

Images about Feces

17 images from works
  • A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Scoop the poop! : clear up after your dog / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office.
  • Horse intestine with multiple attached parasitic worms
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Tortoise: diarrhoeic faeces with worms
  • Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.
  • A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • A physician examines a patient's stools; he is very pleased; the sarcastic maid asks him if he would like a fork. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison, c. 1890.
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Works from the collections

98 works

    • Books

    Précis de coprologie clinique / par René Gaultier.

    | Gaultier, René. | Date: 1927
    • Books

    De excrementis libri II / A Valentino Lublino Polono in studiosorum utilitatem dati. Alter de fecibus. Alter de urinis. Quibus accessit quaestio ejusdem quomodo medicamentum aequale, vel inaequale dicatur. Tractatus etiam utilissimus de morbo Gallico.

    | Johannes Baptista Montanus | Date: 1554
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

    | Date: 1904-1951 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.114
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books
    • Online

    Essai sur les tumeurs stercorales : tribut académique, présenté et publiquement soutenu à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 12 juin 1837 / par Juan-Francisco-José Bauza.

    | Bauza, Juan Francisco José. | Date: 1837
    • Books

    Türkiye ziraat hayvanlarının faeces fermentleri / Bedîı ̨S. Toktay [&] Macit Erkol.

    | Toktay, Bedîı ̨S. | Date: 1940
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Intestines
Stomach
Sewerage
Urine
Wastewater
Rectum
Abdomen
Disease
Psychophysiologic Disorders

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