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Influenza, Human

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Virus Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections

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Images about Influenza, Human

261 images from works
  • Immunity.
  • Influenza : its cause, cure and prevention.
  • Nature's gift to mankind / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Bei Hypertonie, Arteriosklerose, Angina pectoris sowie bei Herzneurosen und allen Gefässirritationen im Alter u. Klimakterium, Theominal : das dominierende Spasmolyticum und Vasoregulans... / Bayer.
  • "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Neil A. Armstrong : Actifed dekongestan abad ruang angkasa / Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
  • Top, a doctor is handing medicine to a woman whose husband has influenza; middle, in a theatre the woman and the man are attending a film or lecture about the medicine, showing that it eliminates the influenza bacillus; bottom, in a bus or train a woman is giving a pill to her travelling companion, while other passengers suffer from influenza. Process print after Leonhard Fries.
  • Beecham's school quiz : animal quiz.
  • 'Pectamol' Linctus : a new anti-tussive agent from the B.D.H. Research Laboratories : saving time in influenza, in colds : Fluscorbin.
  • Hall's Coca Wine : the elixir of life / Stephen Smith & Co. Ltd.
  • List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS from fever to red or purplish spots on the body; sixth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Works from the collections

566 works

    • Ephemera

    Prevention of influenza : warning ; the person attacked by INFLUENZA who does not take precautions runs grave risks himself and may be a source of danger to others.

    | Date: [1919?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Fluscorbin : Vitamin C + quinine massive dose : attack treatment of colds and influenza.

    | Date: [between 1958 and 1969?]
    • Books

    A plague on whose house? : Ballarat and the Spanish influenza of 1919 / Anthea Hyslop.

    Hyslop, Anthea. | Date: 1985
    • Ephemera

    We recommend Veganin : for the treatment of headache, neuralgia, migraine, dysmenorrhoea, fibrositis and other painful conditions : also colds, influenza and fevers : Veganin tablets.

    | Date: [1954]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].

    Major, J. | Date: [1900?]
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Related topics

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
History, 20th Century
Disease Outbreaks
Common Cold
Vaccination
Disease Outbreaks
London
Influenza Vaccines
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919

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