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Images about Thermometers

16 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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 fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
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Temperature measurements
Barometers
Nurses
Physician and patient
Decoration and ornament
Temperature
Hospitals
Body Temperature