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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.

On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry / by Dr. C. A. Wunderlich ; translated from the second German edition by W. Bathurst Woodman.

A doctor takes the temperature of a gloomy patient. Reproduction of a drawing by G. Jennis, 1919.

Good nights bright awakenings calm days with Tricloryl tablets and syrup : new non-barbiturate hypnotic/sedative with wide margin of safety.

A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.

A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.

The construction of a thermometer / by James Six ; Prefaced by an account of his life & works and the use of his thermometer over two hundred years by Jill Austin & Anita McConnell.

Revista catálogo "Scott Precision" : publicacion trimestral dedicada a la termometria y a la meteorologia en general. Ano III, no. 10, Abril-Mayo-Junio, 1935.

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.

The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.

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The construction of a thermometer / by James Six ; Prefaced by an account of his life & works and the use of his thermometer over two hundred years by Jill Austin & Anita McConnell.

A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.

Revista catálogo "Scott Precision" : publicacion trimestral dedicada a la termometria y a la meteorologia en general. Ano III, no. 10, Abril-Mayo-Junio, 1935.

The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.