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  • Compilation of posters from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection in the Library & Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : originally designed as a posterboard for the exhibition HIV/AIDS: controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic, 2014.
  • A stylized blue head and the sun forming the silhouette of an Ionic capital; advertising an exhibition on food and hygiene in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by G. Scheepstra, 1933.
  • Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: a dental hygiene parade: children parade wearing caps shaped liked teeth, bearing banners reading "We brush our teeth each day 100%" and "Progress first". Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • This is to certify that the Ovaltine of Messrs. A. Wander Ltd. of London has been passed by the Examining Board of the Institute of Hygiene as fulfilling the standard of purity & quality required by them ... 22nd day of May 1933 / A. Wander Ltd.
  • A photograph, kept in a family album, of a boy, a girl and a baby with clean teeth and holding toothbrushes, representing dental hygiene taught by their mother. Colour lithograph after P. Tilley, 1965.
  • Annales d'hygiène publique et de médecine légale.
  • Annales d'hygiène publique et de médecine légale.
  • A woman holds a syringe as if smoking a cigarette watched by a black man in a green tracksuit and another in a grey dinner suit; warning about drugs, needle-sharing and safe sex practices to prevent AIDS by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for AIDS Education. Colour lithograph.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • A man wearing the same red striped shirt in numerous public engagements relating to public hygiene including swimming and standing on a crowded bus representing an advertisement for ways in which you cannot contract AIDS; a poster sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1998.
  • A man wearing the same red striped shirt in numerous public engagements relating to public hygiene including swimming and standing on a crowded bus representing an advertisement for ways in which you cannot contract AIDS; a poster sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • Hygieia as a personification of hygiene: a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background; advertising an exhibition in Düsseldorf on health and welfare. Colour lithograph after L. ten Hompel, 1926.
  • A dictionary of hygiène and public health : comprising sanitary chemistry, engineering, and legislation, the dietetic value of foods, and the detection of adulterations, on the plan of the "Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique" of Professor Ambroise Tardieu / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, children of Bhaktapur, 1986. Three children stand in Durbar Square. The little boy has genu valgum (knock knees). In the mid-1980s, nearly half of all Nepalese children died before reaching the age of 5, and life expectancy at birth was 51 years for men and 50 years for women. Conditions associated with poor hygiene and sanitation, including gastrointestinal disorders, diarrhoea, and parasitic infestation, were common.
  • Le médecin chez soi : médecine, hygiène et pharmacie domestique : tableau enseignant : les moyens de remédier aux accidents les plus communs et indiquant les remèdes les plus efficaces.
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • The popular herbal family medical guide and husband's and wife's handbook / The Hygienic Stores Ltd.
  • For good health, use The Hygienic Co.'s sterilized milk : guaranteed pure full-cream milk : free from disease germs : the one and only firm in Portsmouth who sterilize milk and deliver in air-tight bottles... / The Hygienic Milk Co.
  • "Asepta" absorbent cotton for surgical, medical and hygienic uses. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1928.
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].
  • Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal / [Etienne Esquirol].