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Women - Health and hygiene

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  • Jets of water spray naked young women on a bed; suggesting the connection between enemas and eroticism. Process print after an engraving by P.L. Auvray after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A woman recommending Pildoras Hermosina as a remedy for female maladies. Colour lithograph.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Jets of water spray naked young women on a bed; suggesting the connection between enemas and eroticism. Process print after an engraving by P.L. Auvray after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A young woman being attended by a (homoeopathic?) physician. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
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Catalogue

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    Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

    World's Dispensary Medical Association | Date: [1903]
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    Influence of India on the health of British women, and on the prevention of uterine affections / by Edward John Tilt.

    | Date: 1868
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    Women's health guide / Ann Furedi, Mary Tidyman.

    Furedi, Ann | Date: 1994
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    The mother's companion / by Mrs. M.A. Cloudesley Brereton ; with a preface by Sir Lauder Brunton.

    Brereton, M. A. Cloudesley (Maud Adeline Cloudesley) | Date: 1909
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    Hygiène physiologique de la femme : ou, De la femme, considerée dans son système physique et moral ... / par C. Lachaise.

    Lachaise, C. (Claude), 1797-1881. | Date: 1825
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