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De affectionibus cordis libri tres / Hannibalis Albertinii.

Handbook of the sphygmograph : being a guide to its use in clinical research : to which is appended a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on the 29th of March 1867 on the mode and duration of the contraction of the heart in health and disease / By J. Burdon Sanderson.

The sphygmograph : its history and use as an aid to diagnosis in ordinary practice / R.E. Dudgeon.

A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

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 when ever he saw her. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1776, after B. West.

A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

Antiochus is reclining on a bed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse; King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are seated at his bedside. Engraving by L. de Visscher after P. Berrettini da Cortona, ca. 1680.

A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.

A puzzled physician taking the pulse of a young female patient, a boy in the backgroung is pointing to arrows, suggesting that the malady is lovesickness. Engraving by S. Freeman after J. Opie.

A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

Heart-beat and pulse-wave / by C.S. Roy and J.G. Adami.

Bdud rtsi sñiṅ po yan lag brgyad pa gsaṅ ba man ṅag gi rgyud las blta reg gñis kyis nad ṅos bzuṅ thabs rgyas par spros pa reg mthoṅ don ldan / Zla-ba-tshe-riṅ gis brtsams.

Anakrotie und Katakrotie der Pulscurven / von Dr. Leonard Landois.

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A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

Taddei, N. ( -1781)

Heart-beat and pulse-wave / by C.S. Roy and J.G. Adami.

Bdud rtsi sñiṅ po yan lag brgyad pa gsaṅ ba man ṅag gi rgyud las blta reg gñis kyis nad ṅos bzuṅ thabs rgyas par spros pa reg mthoṅ don ldan / Zla-ba-tshe-riṅ gis brtsams.

Anakrotie und Katakrotie der Pulscurven / von Dr. Leonard Landois.