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Thermometers

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  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Two thermometers. Process print, 1910/1940?.
  • A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • For intensive bactericidal activity : Crystamycin : penicillin plus streptomycin combined in one injection.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
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    A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 12083i
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    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.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678059i
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    A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.

    Townsend, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1868-1920. | Date: 1907 | Reference: 15353i
    • Pictures

    Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

    | Reference: 42544i
    • 3-D Objects

    Nurses and doctors attending to children in hospital. Jigsaw puzzle, 1983.

    JW Spear & Sons PLC. Hayter Division. | Date: MCMLXXXIII [1983] | Reference: 39268i
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