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  • Personal hygiene to prevent sickness in children in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Unicef, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • The importance of personal hygiene practices to avoid sickness in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by Graphics Design for ADA and Oxfam, ca. 2000.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
  • Salish girl wearing the fir boughs and goat's wool blanket that signify her adolescence
  • Pomander with three toilet instruments attached. Silver. Includes toothpick and ear-scoop.
  • Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations
  • Girl with hair specially braided to mark end of adolescence
  • Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.
  • Bone comb, supposedly Neolithic, from Gullrum Swedeh
  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • Iron Age toilet bronze mirror
  • Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
  • Iron Age toilet instruments including curettes.
  • Roumanian bodily ornamentation
  • Bunches of toilet instruments (Iron Age)
  • Toilet Instruments (Iron Age).
  • Toilet Instruments (Iron Age)
  • Conjectured female costume of early Iron Age.
  • Conjectured female costume of early Bronze Age.
  • Conjectured male costume during Bronze Age.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: Prehistoric man in health and disease.
  • Two male hands shake with the message 'Menschlich Sein' [human] with a list of ways in which AIDS is not transmitted; a message by the Minister for Health and Social Affairs. Colour lithograph.
  • A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
  • Wellcome museum, primtive medicine: hygiene
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: personal hygiene
  • The Junior Red Cross ; improvement of health, prevention of disease, mitigation of suffering.
  • The seven rules of health : you and your family will stand a better chance of avoiding colds, influenza and other common ailments, as you will more serious diseases such as tuberculosis, if you follow these simple rules ... / prepared for the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health for Scotland by the Central Office of Information.
  • Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.