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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.

Bedford hospital: view of grounds. Lithograph after J. Sunman Austin, 1850.

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.

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.

Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.

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].

A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften / von J.R. Mayer.

Recherches sur la fièvre hectique, considérée comme dépdendante d'une lésion d'action des différens systêmes, sans vice organique / Par F.J.V. Broussais.

Fièvre de la dentition et ses rapports avec la fièvre intermittente : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 25 juillet 1904 / par Joseph Gazet du Chatelier.

Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague : with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

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A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften / von J.R. Mayer.

Recherches sur la fièvre hectique, considérée comme dépdendante d'une lésion d'action des différens systêmes, sans vice organique / Par F.J.V. Broussais.

Fièvre de la dentition et ses rapports avec la fièvre intermittente : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 25 juillet 1904 / par Joseph Gazet du Chatelier.

Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague : with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.