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The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
- Henriot, 1857-1933.
- Date
- 1907
- Reference
- 17268i
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Publication/Creation
[France] : [publisher not identified], 1907.
Physical description
1 photomechanical reproduction : wood engraving
Contributors
Lettering
L'impot sur les maladies, par Henriot ...
Contents
[1] A pharmacist mixing medicine. [2] An sick old man; two old men conversing in the rain. [3] A diner indulging himself. [4] A representative from the inland revenue taking notes from a physician. [5] a man with a cold. [6] a patient with a chest infection reads his tax bill with shock. [7] A physician examines a man with heart problems. [8] People in the street with everyday illnesses. [9] A wealthy couple, displeased at the tax on neurasthenia, which, says the text, will serve to reduce the number of complaints. [10] A 'healthy' gentleman, holding a bill, being taxed on account of this 'abnormality'
Lettering note
Lettering continues: [1] L'impôt sur les remèdes est un impôt dissimulé sur les maladies. [2] Moi, je serais franc; j'imposerais carrément les maladies d'après leur durée et leur gravité. Un homme malade est une force perdue pour l'Etat; il lui doit de ce chef une indemnité. [3] De plus, l'impôt ferait prendre quelques précautions: la plupart des nos maladies venant de notre faute, par un courant d'air, par un surmenage, par des intoxications évitables. [4] Dès que le médecin déclare une maladie, le représantant du fisc apporte sa note: une fièvre éruptive, 5 francs par jour; [5] un rhume de cerveau, à partir de 40 centimes jusqu'à 1 franc, selon le dégre; [6] une bronchite, 5 francs; une fluxion de poitrine, 20 francs; [7] angine couenneuse, 15 francs; rougeole, 6 francs; scarlatine, 6 fr. 50. [8] Les plus petits maux seront une ressource pour l'Etat; cor aux pieds, 10 centimes; englelures, 25 centimes la paire; une indigestion, 1 franc. [9] La neurasthénie, 20 francs par jour; ca en diminuera le nombre. [10] La santé est une chose anormale qu'on peut considérer comme la maladie de ceux qui n'en ont pas. Elle sera taxée 10 francs par jour. H.
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 17268i
Type/Technique
Languages
- French
Subjects
- DrugsTaxationFrance.
- PatientsLegal status, laws, etc
- Patients
- Bureaucracy
- Medical fees
- NeurastheniaFrance.
- Coronary heart disease
- Health
- TaxationFrance.
- Cold (Disease)
- Gluttony
- Social norms
- Employment stabilizationFrance.
- Labor policy
- Medical policy
- National health services
- Sick leave
- SickEconomic conditions
- SickLegal status, laws, etc
- Industrial relations
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