Vitagrippe, an influenza remedy, personified as a yellow figure capturing a red demon representing influenza. Colour lithograph by Jacques and Pierre Bellenger.

  • Bellenger, Jacques, 1909-
Date:
[1950?]
Reference:
525023i
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Description

The red demon representing influenza tries to run away up the stem of a clinical thermometer but he is not quick enough to evade the yellow figure representing Vitagrippe. Vitagrippe was manufactured by Laboratoires Veyron & Froment in Marseille: it contained aspirin and vitamin C

Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1950?] (Paris (4 Rue Cimarosa) : S[ocié]té Exploitation Et[ablissemen]ts de La Vasselais Imp. "Edit")

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 99.5 x 66.1 cm

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Lettering

Si la grippe t'agrippe vite ... Vitagrippe. Vitagrippe: la vitamine C contre la grippe. JP Bellenger "Reproduction interdite. Modèle déposé" Bears visa number: Visa P.2841-P42.203 et 204

References note

M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 174, p. 95

Reference

Wellcome Collection 525023i

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