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A skeleton riding on a fly which excretes disease; representing the need to exterminate flies as a public health measure. Lithograph after design by L. Moragas Pomar, ca. 1925/1928.
- Moragas Pomar, L.
- Date
- [1925?/1928?]
- Reference
- 19995i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Of the diseases named (typhus, tuberculosis and enteritis), only the last is generally considered to be communicated by flies
Publication/Creation
[Barcelona?] : Instituto Municipal de Higiene, [1925?/1928?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph(?) ; sheet 72.5 x 55.5 cm
Lettering
Instituto Municipal de Higiene. Exterminad las moscas transporta ellas, los gérmenes de la enfermedad y de la muerte. tifus tuberculosis enteritis ; Dr Moragas Pomar
Creator/production credits
Assumed (from stamp on the Wellcome Library impression) to have been issued by the Instituto Municipal de Higiene of Barcelona
Lettering note
Wellcome Library impression bears stamp of city of Barcelona
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 19995i
Type/Technique
Languages
- Spanish
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores