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Communication in medicine

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  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.
  • A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • Two physicians discussing a patient: one boasts to the other that he has prescribed a remedy which will aggravate the patient's illness in order to fit the illness to the physician's specialty. Wood engraving by J.B. Partridge, 1896.
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    Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

    | Date: 1800 | Reference: 16128i
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    • Online

    A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

    Keene, Charles, 1823-1891. | Date: 1880 | Reference: 13824i
    • Books

    Language is art / written by Shyronn Jones & Shyloh Jones.

    Jones, Shyronn | Date: [2018]
    • Books

    Bibliotheca medica: physician for tomorrow : Dedication of the Countway Library of Medicine, May 26 & 27, 1965 / edited by David McCord.

    | Date: 1966
    • Books

    Media messages and public health : a decisions approach to content analysis / edited by Amy B. Jordan [and others].

    | Date: 2009
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