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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.

Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever / by D.J. Corrigan.

Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.

Christ stands before the high priest; Peter denies knowledge of Christ. Line engraving by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck.

A doctor places a thermometer in a female patient's mouth, an emaciated man and a skin rash representing a message about symptoms that suggest you have AIDS; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Di alcuni rilievi topo-termometrici nella tubercolosi polmonare / C. Frugoni ; aiuto e F. Leidi.

Dissertatio practico-medica inauguralis, de calore febrili ... / Eruditorum examini submittit Petrus Abrahamus de Jonge.

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.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fonte caloris animalium pulmonibus instructorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Maddock Hawley.

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Body Temperature

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Di alcuni rilievi topo-termometrici nella tubercolosi polmonare / C. Frugoni ; aiuto e F. Leidi.

Dissertatio practico-medica inauguralis, de calore febrili ... / Eruditorum examini submittit Petrus Abrahamus de Jonge.

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.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fonte caloris animalium pulmonibus instructorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Maddock Hawley.

Body Temperature

Images from the collections

Images about Body Temperature

Works from the collections

Di alcuni rilievi topo-termometrici nella tubercolosi polmonare / C. Frugoni ; aiuto e F. Leidi.

Dissertatio practico-medica inauguralis, de calore febrili ... / Eruditorum examini submittit Petrus Abrahamus de Jonge.

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.

Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fonte caloris animalium pulmonibus instructorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Maddock Hawley.

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