Medical term for predicting the likely outcome of one's current standing

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An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.

A physician holds up a urine flask to the light, while another scholar reads the properties of urine from a book. Woodcut, 1531.

An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.

A doctor and colonel discussing the medical prognosis of the new (modern) woman. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1895.

A doctor tells an obese lady all the possible horrendous diseases she might have. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

Des phénomènes précurseurs et de l'invasion de la maladie sous le point de vue pronostic : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 3 décembre 1841 / par Pierre (Stanislas).

Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.

Diagnostic et pronostic à l'époque d'Hippocrate et à la nôtre / par Antoine Thivel.

Petit traitté des pronostics et usage de la Médecine, with other tracts and a collection of iatro-chemical receipts

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Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

Des phénomènes précurseurs et de l'invasion de la maladie sous le point de vue pronostic : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 3 décembre 1841 / par Pierre (Stanislas).

Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.

Diagnostic et pronostic à l'époque d'Hippocrate et à la nôtre / par Antoine Thivel.

Petit traitté des pronostics et usage de la Médecine, with other tracts and a collection of iatro-chemical receipts

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Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

Des phénomènes précurseurs et de l'invasion de la maladie sous le point de vue pronostic : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 3 décembre 1841 / par Pierre (Stanislas).

Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.

Diagnostic et pronostic à l'époque d'Hippocrate et à la nôtre / par Antoine Thivel.

Petit traitté des pronostics et usage de la Médecine, with other tracts and a collection of iatro-chemical receipts

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