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Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after Fellnagel, 1941.
- Fellnagel, American designer, active approximately 1950.
- Date
- [1941]
- Reference
- 660161i
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Licence
In copyright
Credit: Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after Fellnagel, 1941. In copyright
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Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : United States Public Health Service, [1941]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 72 x 55.2 cm
Lettering
Only x-ray, radium, surgery ever cured cancer. Fellnagel
Creator/production credits
The artist might be Dorothy Darling Fellnagel, b. Kansas City, Aug. 26, 1913; d. Oakland, California, Apr. 22, 2006 (Susan V. Craig, Biographical dictionary of Kansas artists active before 1945, 2006, s.v. Fellnagel)
References note
'Public Health Service publications. A list of publications issued during the period January-June 1941', Public health reports, 22 August 1941, vol. 56, p. 1711 ("1. Cancer. Early diagnosis would save 50,000 lives every year. 2. Cancer. From 7th to 2nd place among the big killers-in the last 25 years. 3. Cancer. Only X-ray, radium, surgery, ever cured cancer. 4. Cancer danger signals.")
Lettering note
Bears number: 3
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 660161i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores