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  • Sunlight soap : a child can use it / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Sunlight soap : a child can use it / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Common sicknesses of people with HIV and AIDS / Khomanani.
  • A naked woman sitting in a chair picks up a towel and dries her left foot. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.
  • Common sicknesses of people with HIV and AIDS / Khomanani.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • AIDS and the workplace / NUPE Health Service Staff.
  • The importance of washing hands before cooking and sterilising water in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
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Works

    • Ephemera

    Prevention of influenza : warning ; the person attacked by INFLUENZA who does not take precautions runs grave risks himself and may be a source of danger to others.

    | Date: [1919?]
  • view The next to godliness : an address to the working class / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
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    The next to godliness : an address to the working class / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

    Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896 | Date: 1882
  • view The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell.
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    The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell.

    Newell, Daniel | Date: 1825
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    Correct hygienic disposal of manure in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Health Education Centre, 1997.

    | Date: 1997 | Reference: 752680i
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    Hygiene in food handling: types of food and ways of transmitting microbes. Colour lithograph, 2000.

    Státní zdravotní ústav v Praze | Date: 2000 | Reference: 660239i
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