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  • Two doctors discussing a patient who has a fever and a great thirst, the patient overhears and promises to cure the thirst if they can deal with the fever. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1882.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Bedford hospital: view of grounds. Lithograph after J. Sunman Austin, 1850.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • A child asleep under a mosquito net and treating the net: malaria prevention in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Malaria Control Programme, ca. 2000.
  • Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem / Authore Thoma Sydenham.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Dr. Warren's epistle to his friend, of the method and manner of curing the late raging fevers, and of the danger, uncertainty, and unwholesomeness of the Jesuit's bark / faithfully translated ... from the Latin ... by Maurice Shelton ... To which are added curious and useful notes, and a short dedicatory letter to the Doctor, by the same.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Examen diatribæ Thomæ Willisii ... de febribus. Cui accesserunt Historiæ aliquot medicæ rariores / [Edmund Meara].
  • Therapeutice specialis ad febres periodicas perniciosas.
  • Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu / per Tho. Sydenham ... ; accedunt ejusdem De febre putrida variolis confluentibus superveniente, et De mictu sanguineo à calculo renibus impacto dissertationes.
  • Traité des inflammations internes connues sous le nom de fièvres / par H. Chauffard.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Fever Hospital, Margate, Kent, England: floor plan. Line engraving.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Boer War: fever patients in a ward at the military hospital at Bloemfontein, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. Mayer.
  • A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers; wherein, besides their appearances and manner of cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explain'd. Together with an application of the same theory to hectick fevers: and an essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine / [By G.C].
  • Examen diatribæ Thomæ Willisii ... de febribus. Cui accesserunt Historiæ aliquot medicæ rariores / [Edmund Meara].
  • One dozen Dr. Chilton's Permanent Fever and Ague Cure.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Thomae Sydenham ... Opera universa : in quibus non solummodò morborum acutorum historiae & curationes novâ & exquisitâ methodo diligentissimè traduntur, verùm etiam morborum ferè omnium chronicorum curatio brevissima, pariter ac fidelissima in publici commodum exhibetur / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever / by D.J. Corrigan.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.