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Anxiety

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Emotions
Stress, Psychological

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Images from the collections

Images about Anxiety

60 images from works
  • Veronal : neues vorzügliches Hypnoticum.
  • News : inexpensive sustained dexamphetamine therapy 'for the patient who is tired all day', 'for day-long appetite control' : dexten ion-resin-bonded dexamphetamine, barbidex dexten plus phenobarbitone / Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Tropium Chlordiazepoxide B P : 'turns' the emotional and behavioural effects of anxiety and stress to normality.
  • An anxious patient tells his doctor that he is worried because he has started to discuss cricket with himself. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1934.
  • The colloidal iron salt of inositol hexaphosphoric acid : Ferrophytin.
  • A man sitting in a chair while a woman takes his pulse with a group of concerned courtiers gathering around. Line engraving.
  • In a world of worry..tension needs Tacitin.
  • CPL pharmaceutical preparations / Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Fentazin is the ideal tranquiliser for agitation in older patients : complicated astronomical dial clock c. 1764.
  • Dial (diallylbarbituric acid) : the safest, non-narcotic and non-habit forming hypnotic and sedative.
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Works from the collections

295 works

    • Books

    Dealing with anxiety / British Lung Foundation.

    | Date: 2009
    • Pictures

    A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.

    Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546. | Date: [1542?] | Reference: 23028i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    "El Diablo todavía me habla- pero ya no le hago caso" : el Liranol controla la agitación aguda con eficacia, seguridad y minimos efectos secundarios / Wyeth International Limited.

    | Date: [1958]
    • Books

    Worried Arthur : the birthday party / written by Joan Stimson ; illustrated by Jan Lewis.

    Stimson, Joan | Date: 2012
    • Books

    Anxiety comics : volume 2 / by Stacey Bru.

    Bru, Stacey | Date: [2015]
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Related topics

Mental Health
Mental Health
Depression
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Mental Health
Depression
Worry

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