Immunity.

Dr. Thomas eclectric oil : for internal & external use. for sale by all druggists.

A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Serum antidiphterique (Roux-Behring System) : prepared by Doctor Villejean.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: demonstration of an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne : the original and only genuine / J.T. Davenport.

A mother holding her newborn baby, with a serious expresssion as she realizes its vulnerability to deadly infectious diseases; with a bottle of vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, advertising vaccination against those diseases. Colour process print by Sadolin, 195-.

Childhood protection : the following schedule was suggested at a Symposium on Childhood Immunization held in London, May 1959.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner.

Dear sir, we have the honour to inform you that we are the sole agents for the anti-diphtheric serium (Roux-Behring system) prepared by Doctor Villejean ...

Double immunité en trois injections / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

16 volumes, 46 files and folders, and 3 larged framed and glazed items

Notes of Lister's lectures, personal material and juvenilia.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Dear doctor : the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has recently reviewed the schedules of immunisation ... / G.E. Godber.

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Diphtheria

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Images about Diphtheria

Works from the collections

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Dear doctor : the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has recently reviewed the schedules of immunisation ... / G.E. Godber.

Diphtheria

Images from the collections

Images about Diphtheria

Works from the collections

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Dear doctor : the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has recently reviewed the schedules of immunisation ... / G.E. Godber.

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