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  • A police "Wanted" notice for a man sneezing without a handkerchief. Colour lithograph after Keith Monk.
  • A police "Wanted" notice for a man sneezing without a handkerchief. Colour lithograph after Keith Monk.
  • Three stages in a man's sneezing, represented by the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman coughing or sneezing without a handkerchief in a draper's shop. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A man (Mr Smit) coughing and sneezing into people in a crowd. Colour lithograph after Hink, 194-.
  • A woman coughing or sneezing without a handkerchief in an office with three other office workers. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Photograph of a man sneezing and lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in a canteen queue, coughing or sneezing over food to the disapproval of those around him. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman, ca. 1951.
  • A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman, ca. 1951.
  • A man sneezing in a canteen while queuing for food, urging the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after R. Mount ca. 1950.
  • A man sneezing into a tissue: understanding H1N1 avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2006.
  • A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.
  • A woman coughing into her arm, a man sneezing into a tissue and washing hands: preventing the spread of flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A woman coughing into her arm, a man sneezing into a tissue and washing hands: preventing the spread of flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • You can't catch H.I.V. from.. : cups glasses cutlery towels toilet seats mosquitoes coughing sneezing shaking hands giving blood kissing / designed by Simon Impey and Jon Daniel.
  • A message about how AIDS is not spread including illustrations of a woman with a mosquito bite to a person coughing and sneezing; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Zimbabwe. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Bengali version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Nine illustrations demonstrating ways in which HIV/AIDS is not spread from touching or hugging to coughing or sneezing; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • Achillea millefolium L. Asteraceae. Yarrow or sneezewort, the latter because ground up it made a snuff to induce sneezing. Evergreen, herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe, Asia and North America. Dioscorides calls it Achilles’ woundwort, sideritis, writing that the ground-up foliage closes bleeding wounds, relieves inflammation and stops uterine bleeding. Gerard (1633) says that put up one’s nose it causes a nosebleed and so stops migraines. Named for the Greek warrior, Achilles, who used this plant for healing wounds – having been taught its properties by his teacher, Chiron the centaur. Millefolium because of the thousands of fronds that make up the leaf, and which, when applied to a bleeding wound, facilitate coagulation by platelets. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A handkerchief being blown away by a sneeze. Colour lithograph, 1946.
  • Three stages in a man's sneeze, linked to the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.
  • A man advises a girl to hold a hand to her mouth as she sneezes: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • A man in a darkened theatre or cinema coughs and sneezes over other members of the audience, starting an epidemic of colds. Colour lithograph after R. Storm Petersen, 194-.
  • A man using a handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds to productive workers. Colour lithograph.
  • A man coughing in a cinema. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Lithograph.
  • Lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Lithograph.