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People on a clifftop, right, with to the left microbes in the air, represented as little monsters. Top right, men using a hand-pump to fire sprays of "Anios Liquide" over the cliff against the microbes, which are falling into the sea. Some of the microbes are labelled with names of diseases ("Charbon" [anthrax], "Mildew", "Fièvre Aphteuse" [foot-and-mouth disease], "Typhus", "Phtisie galopante" [galloping consumption or tuberculosis], "Choléra", "Peste")
In the foreground, a crowd of twelve people from different walks of life stand on the cliff and throw boxes of Anios powder at the microbes or pour Anios liquid from wicker-coated cans over them. The people include a workman (wearing clogs - Breton?), a postman, a chef, a waiter, a woman in a Breton coif, five middle-or upper-class men and a fashionable lady. Possibly the types portrayed may be associated with the diseases mentioned, e.g. the rustic Bretons with foot-and-mouth disease, the postman with mildew, the chef and waiter with typhus, the city-dwellers with cholera, etc.
The firm Laboratoires Anios was founded in 1898 in the Lille area by a chemist called Collet-Delval to sell products and services designed to ensure disinfection and hygiene in the vats of the growing brewing industry. In 1989 it moved to premises in Lille-Hellemmes, offering hygiene services to industry, hospitals, medical practitioners and institutional premises such as kitchens and old people's homes

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours on two sheets joined horizontally ; sheets together 191.5 x 133 cm

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

The secret life of germs : observations and lessons from a microbe hunter / Philip M. Tierno, Jr.

Symposia (Society for General Microbiology)

Symposia

x, 450 pages, 13 plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Microbial growth : nineteenth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology held at University College, London, April 1969 / [edited by Pauline Meadow and S.J. Pirt].

Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Medical Heritage Library

Passat-Staub und Blut-Regen ein grosses organisches unsichtbares Wirken und Leben in der Atmosphäre : mehrere Vorträge / von Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

259, 28 leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

The microscopist : a manual of microscopy and compendium of the microscopic science : micro-minerology, micro-chemistry, biology, histology, and pathological histology / by J.H. Wythe.

Microterrors : the complete guide to bacterial, viral and fungal infections that threaten our health / Tony Hart.

Microbiology series

xvi, 678 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm.

Microbes for human life / editors: Ashok Kumar Chauhan, Ajit Varma, Harsha Kharkwal.

Dialogue includes: Proud parent "You cannot have my daughter the social gulf is too wide remember you are a mere germ of a common cold - she is a bacillus of neurasthenia."

1 drawing : pen and ink, with grey wash ; border 21.1 x 29.6 cm

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

4 unnumbered pages, 157 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10 leaves of plates, 1 foldout chart : illustrations ; 26 cm

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People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

The secret life of germs : observations and lessons from a microbe hunter / Philip M. Tierno, Jr.

Microbial growth : nineteenth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology held at University College, London, April 1969 / [edited by Pauline Meadow and S.J. Pirt].

Passat-Staub und Blut-Regen ein grosses organisches unsichtbares Wirken und Leben in der Atmosphäre : mehrere Vorträge / von Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

The microscopist : a manual of microscopy and compendium of the microscopic science : micro-minerology, micro-chemistry, biology, histology, and pathological histology / by J.H. Wythe.

Microterrors : the complete guide to bacterial, viral and fungal infections that threaten our health / Tony Hart.

Microbes for human life / editors: Ashok Kumar Chauhan, Ajit Varma, Harsha Kharkwal.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

Verbreitung und Einfluss des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika : ein Vortrag / von C.G. Ehrenberg.

A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.

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People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

The secret life of germs : observations and lessons from a microbe hunter / Philip M. Tierno, Jr.

Microbial growth : nineteenth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology held at University College, London, April 1969 / [edited by Pauline Meadow and S.J. Pirt].

Passat-Staub und Blut-Regen ein grosses organisches unsichtbares Wirken und Leben in der Atmosphäre : mehrere Vorträge / von Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

The microscopist : a manual of microscopy and compendium of the microscopic science : micro-minerology, micro-chemistry, biology, histology, and pathological histology / by J.H. Wythe.

Microterrors : the complete guide to bacterial, viral and fungal infections that threaten our health / Tony Hart.

Microbes for human life / editors: Ashok Kumar Chauhan, Ajit Varma, Harsha Kharkwal.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

Verbreitung und Einfluss des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika : ein Vortrag / von C.G. Ehrenberg.

A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.

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