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Spirochaetosis

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  • Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.

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    A rat, and precautions for its control: tools and clothes being hung up, a table with cigarettes and food on it, hands under a tap, medicine bottles. Colour lithograph after M. Lucchèse, 1948 (?).

    Lucchèse, M. | Date: [1948?] | Reference: 824386i
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    Ways of preventing rats from entering a building, with a dead rat lying by a poison bottle. Colour lithograph, 1948 (?).

    | Date: [1948?] | Reference: 824378i
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    Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.

    Nicolitch, Obrad, 1898-1976. | Date: [1920?] | Reference: 46901i
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    Spiroketoza po pti︠t︡site / Ivan Dzhankov, Ivan Sumrov.

    Dzhankov, Ivan. | Date: 1980

Related topics

Rats as carriers of disease
Rats - Control

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