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Images

  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Francisque Crôtte applying his electrical remedy for tuberculosis to a seated woman. Colour process print, 1901.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Wood engraving by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires.
  • Tenement building, Cuba: an interior view of the entrance courtyard, with stairs to upper floors. Photograph, 1902.
  • A woman behind a health facility counter displaying anti-tuberculosis drugs with tuberculosis and leprosy posters behind: tuberculosis and leprosy prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.
  • An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • The strangling of a poisonous snake, representing the crushing of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after G. Dorival and G. Capon, ca. 1918.
  • Fighting tuberculosis in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé, ca. 2000.
  • Farine Maxicaine : Le Cris de Paris 6.
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Catalogue

  • view A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D.
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    A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D.

    M'Dowell, William A. (William Adair), 1795-1853 | Date: 1843
  • view The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.
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    The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

    Haviland, Alfred, -1903 | Date: 1875
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    Die causale Behandlung der Tuberculose : experimentelle und klinische Studien / von Edwin Klebs.

    Klebs, Edwin (Theodor Albrecht Edwin), 1834-1913. | Date: 1894
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    Transactions of the nineteenth annual conference held in the Lecture Theatre, Engineer's Institute, Park Place, Cardiff, July 13th to 15th, 1933 / National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.

    National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain). Conference 1933 : Cardiff, Wales) | Date: 1933
  • view Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.
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    Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.

    Gilbert, Henry | Date: 1842
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