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Diseases of the heart and arterial system : designed to be a practical presentation of the subject for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Robert H. Babcock ; with three coloured plates and one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations.

Babcock, Robert H. (Robert Hall), 1851-1930, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine · 1907 · New York and London : D. Appleton and Company, 1907. · 48 pictures

A 1907 cardiology textbook by Chicago physician Robert H. Babcock, published by D. Appleton in New York and London for medical students and practising doctors. Halftone photographs show hands palpating a bare chest against black grounds, dissected heart and lung specimens, alongside pulse tracings and diagrams — useful for high-contrast figure studies, instructional hand gestures, and waveform line work.

Heart Diseases · Arteries - Diseases · Arterial Occlusive Diseases

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain)