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History of Medicine

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Images from the collections

Images about History of Medicine

118 images from works
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Aesculape.
  • Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.
  • History of osteopathy : and twentieth-century medical practice / by E.R. Booth.
  • Aesculape.
  • The Centre for medical science and history : an introduction, May 1991.
  • [Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].
  • Aesculape.
  • Aesculape.
  • Aesculape.
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Works from the collections

4,908 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik / von Julius Petersen.

    | Julius Petersen | Date: 1890
    • Books

    Museum / by David Thomas and Mary Williamson ; designed by Michael Preston.

    | Thomas, David | Date: [1989]
    • Books

    The history of medicine in its salient features / by Walter Libby.

    | Walter Libby | Date: 1923
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    • Online

    Les médecins, astrologues, chirurgiens et lettrés à Paris pendant la guerre de cent ans : d'après la chronique de Guillebert de Mets / A. de Mets.

    | Mets, A. de | Date: 1934
    • Books
    • Online

    Introduzione alla storia della medicina antica e moderna.

    | Rosario Scuderi | Date: 1831
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Related topics

Physicians
Medicine
Public Health
Science
History, 20th Century
London
United States
Ancient
Germany
History, Ancient

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