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Medical innovations

Images

  • Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome / Robert E. Adler.

    Adler, Robert E., 1946- | Date: [2004], ©2004
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    The making of modern medicine : turning points in the treatment of disease / Michael Bliss.

    Bliss, Michael, 1941-2017. | Date: 2011
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    Test-tube women : what future for motherhood? / edited by Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden.

    | Date: 1984
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    Histoire de la pensée médicale contemporaine : évolutions, découvertes, controverses / sous la direction de Bernardino Fantini et Louise L. Lambrichs ; [contributions de] R. Ankeny [and others] ; traductions de S. M. Halle, L. L. Lambrichs et C. Pilini.

    | Date: [2014], ©2014
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    Smallpox, syphilis, and salvation : medical breakthroughs that changed the world / Sheryl Persson.

    Persson, Sheryl Ann, 1952- | Date: 2009
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