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Les pouls en médecine chinoise / [J Borsarello].
Borsarello, J.Date: 1981
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A donkey as a physician taking the pulse of a dying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
Francisco GoyaReference: 18056i
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A German army doctor sits at a patient's bedside: a second soldier and a woman stand by. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24299i
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Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
Collin de Vermont, Hyacinthe, 1693-1761.Date: [1769?]Reference: 22177i
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A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
Martin AndersonReference: 21924i
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Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Coloured engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1772, after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro da CortonaDate: 1 September 1772Reference: 22181i
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Novae raraeque observationes circa crisium praedictionem ex pulsu nullo habitu respectu ad signa critica antiquorum; : primum a Francisco Solano de Luque antequerae in Hispania practico, aliisque deinde medicis factae; novis casibus, monitisque generalibus de natura crisium, / auctae a Jacobo Nihell, med. doct. Ex Anglico latine reddidit, & dissertationem de natura humana adjunxit Wilhelmus Noortwyk, M.D. Accedit in hac editione D.G.C. Schelhammeri P.P prim. in Acad. Kilon. &c. disquisitio epistolica de pulsu.
Nihell, JamesDate: MDCCLIX. [1759]
Pictures
The death (or Dormition) of the Virgin. Etching by Rembrandt, 1639.
RembrandtDate: 1639Reference: 21530i
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A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 17860i
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Student's guide to the examination of the pulse, and use of the sphygmograph / by Byrom Bramwell.
Byrom BramwellDate: 1883
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John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
George CruikshankDate: 1 December 1813Reference: 38418i
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A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
Naiveu, Matthijs, 1647-1721.Date: [1700?]Reference: 44718i
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A physician taking the pulse of a male patient with a bandaged head, a nurse is standing near with a bowl, at an outdoor hospital in Korea. Colour process print after J.C.
C., J., active 1950.Reference: 21888i
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A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
Edme-Jean PigalReference: 16489i
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A doctor (Joseph Chelius) takes the pulse of a young woman who warms to his presence. Coloured etching, ca. 1831.
Date: 1831Reference: 17845i
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Science of sphygmica, or, Sage Kanād on pulse / translated by K.R.L. Gupta.
Kaṇāda, MaharshiDate: 1987
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Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
Gostiaux, G., 1838-Reference: 22203i
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A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
Abraham SolomonReference: 21990i
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A sick man projects his tongue while a doctor takes his pulse and times it with a sand-glass, a woman looks on over the chair-back. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 21862i
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A group of physicians trying to diagnose a young woman's illness in a scene from Molière's L'amour médecin. Etching attributed to G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.
MolièreReference: 21940i
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A physician checks the pulse of a patient in a hospital. Pen drawing.
Reference: 24546i
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A doctor takes the pulse of a patient. Etching by M. Österreich, 1750, after P.L. Ghezzi.
Pier Leone GhezziDate: 1750Reference: 17938i
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A man taking the pulse of another man. Albumen print.
Edward S. Bare.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 46782i
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A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
Emilio Casals y CampsDate: [1882?]Reference: 44588i
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Sadi Carnot, the president of France, lies in bed having his pulse taken. Lithograph by H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893.
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecDate: 1893Reference: 16955i