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Families - Health and hygiene

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  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
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    A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.

    Debacq, Charles-Alexandre, 1804-1853. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 16178i
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    Women, health, and the family / Hilary Graham.

    Graham, Hilary | Date: 1984
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    Pioneering health in London, 1935-2000 : the Peckham experiment / David Kuchenbuch ; translated by Alex Skinner.

    Kuchenbuch, David, 1980- | Date: 2019
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    A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.

    King, Gunning. | Date: 1913 | Reference: 15400i
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    What can window-gardens do for our health? / by Elizabeth Twining.

    Twining, Elizabeth. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899]
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