A customer at a pharmacy makes a verbal gaffe when asking for iodine. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Plates illustrative of the vocabulary for the deaf and dumb.

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Plates illustrative of the vocabulary for the deaf and dumb.

A customer at a pharmacy makes a verbal gaffe when asking for iodine. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.