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  • A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A tree made of people, on which a bole grows like a cancer.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Syphilis: a hand opening a calendar for a year in the 1940s and revealing a crowd of people (civilians) including potential victims of syphilis. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941/1945.
  • A lecturer pointing to a large screen, on which projected diagrams of the bodies of a man and a woman are marked with red flags indicating areas where cancer may be first seen. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A healthy-looking man with a tourniquet having a blood test, as apparent health can conceal syphilis. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1941.
  • A lecturer pointing to a large screen, on which projected diagrams of the bodies of a man and a woman are marked with red flags indicating areas where cancer may be first seen. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A red medicine bottle in blue wrapping, attractive but unable to cure gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1943 (?).
  • Syphilis: ten people, one of whom is diagnosed as having syphilis. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.