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Body Temperature

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  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • A doctor (Joseph Chelius) takes the pulse of a young woman who warms to his presence. Coloured etching, ca. 1831.
  • On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry / by Dr. C. A. Wunderlich ; translated from the second German edition by W. Bathurst Woodman.
  • Peter denies knowledge of Christ. Engraving by A. Pauwels after G. Seghers.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
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    Di alcuni rilievi topo-termometrici nella tubercolosi polmonare / C. Frugoni ; aiuto e F. Leidi.

    Frugoni, Cesare, 1881-1978. | Date: 1910
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    Dissertatio practico-medica inauguralis, de calore febrili ... / Eruditorum examini submittit Petrus Abrahamus de Jonge.

    Jonge, Petrus Abrahamus de. | Date: [1762]
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    Experimental researches on the temperature of the head : I. On some points relating to the temperature of the head ; II. Effect on voluntary muscular contractions ; III. Influence of the temperature of the air / by J.S. Lombard.

    Lombard, J. S. (Josiah Stickney) | Date: 1881
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    Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1809 | Reference: 22993i
    Part of: Musée français.
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    Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fonte caloris animalium pulmonibus instructorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Maddock Hawley.

    Hawley, Richard Maddock. | Date: 1807
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