Specific disease or injury resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate

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A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.

A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.

A woman stands in the foreground on the far right, a man in a denim shirt on the far left with a woman and child, a man in a suit and a further woman behind them; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Les morts mystèrieuses de l'histoire / [Augustin Cabanés].

Suspicions of hatred in a family of artists / by William H. Honan.

On the causes of death in the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society from January 1853 to January 1860 / by James Begbie.

Essai analytique et critique de statistique mortuaire compareé renfermant les monographies etíologiques des accidents et de la plupart des maladies mortelles : et expliquant les lois geńeŕales de la mortalité des peuples, par les influences combineés des diverses causes de mort.

The cause of death of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces (969-976) : poisoning or typhoid fever? / John Lascaratos and Spyros Marketos.

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Cause of Death

Images about Cause of Death

Works

Les morts mystèrieuses de l'histoire / [Augustin Cabanés].

Suspicions of hatred in a family of artists / by William H. Honan.

On the causes of death in the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society from January 1853 to January 1860 / by James Begbie.

Essai analytique et critique de statistique mortuaire compareé renfermant les monographies etíologiques des accidents et de la plupart des maladies mortelles : et expliquant les lois geńeŕales de la mortalité des peuples, par les influences combineés des diverses causes de mort.

The cause of death of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces (969-976) : poisoning or typhoid fever? / John Lascaratos and Spyros Marketos.

Cause of Death

Images about Cause of Death

Works

Les morts mystèrieuses de l'histoire / [Augustin Cabanés].

Suspicions of hatred in a family of artists / by William H. Honan.

On the causes of death in the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society from January 1853 to January 1860 / by James Begbie.

Essai analytique et critique de statistique mortuaire compareé renfermant les monographies etíologiques des accidents et de la plupart des maladies mortelles : et expliquant les lois geńeŕales de la mortalité des peuples, par les influences combineés des diverses causes de mort.

The cause of death of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces (969-976) : poisoning or typhoid fever? / John Lascaratos and Spyros Marketos.

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