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Concept

Shock

Images

  • A woman has just died: one man breaks the news to another. Wood engraving.
  • Miss Melcombe visits Mr Huntley, while on his deathbed in the attendance of his physician. Engraving, 1771.
  • The discovery of King Harold's body at the Battle of Hastings. Line engraving by E.R. Whitfield after W. Hilton, 1834.
  • Abraham and Isaac embrace in the wilderness, in the shock of their reprieve. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.
  • A soldier takes his hat off to a lady at her table but finds that she preferred "les Lanciers". Lithograph by Villain, 1826, after H. Bellangé.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Annotated bibliography on shock, 1950-1962 / by Benjamin W. Zweifach.

    Zweifach, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1910-1997. | Date: 1963
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Action and reaction in pathology and therapeutics Series II. Teleology (old and new)

    | Date: 1929-1950 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.4/2
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Workmen's sickness and accident insurance--second series

    | Date: 1901-1933 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.360/2
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Shock and circulatory homeostasis : transactions of the second conference, October 19, 20, and 21, 1952, Princeton, N.J / edited by Harold D. Green.

    Conference on Shock and Circulatory Homeostasis 1952 : Princeton, N.J.) | Date: [1953]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans

    Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans | Date: 1927-1956 | Reference: GC/135
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