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United States. Public Health Service

Images

  • A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A tree made of people, on which a bole grows like a cancer.
  • An American farm boy drinking unsafe water from an old water pump. Colour lithograph after Robbins, 1943.
  • Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Syphilis: a hand opening a calendar for a year in the 1940s and revealing a crowd of people (civilians) including potential victims of syphilis. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941/1945.
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    Vital statistics : a discussion of what they are and their uses in public health administration / by John W. Trask.

    Trask, John W., 1877-1951. | Date: 1914
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    Yellow fever: its nature, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis, and quarantine regulations relating thereto / by Officers of the US Marine-Hospital Service, together with an abstraction of the report of the medical officers detailed as a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever.

    United States. Public Health Service. | Date: 1889
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    Proceedings of a conference to determine whether or not there is a public health question in the manufacture, distribution, or use of tetraethyl lead gasoline / Prepared by direction of the surgeon general.

    United States. Public Health Service. | Date: 1925
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    Origin, program, and operation of the U. S. National Health Survey : a description of the developments leading to enactment of the National Health Survey Act, and summary of the policies, initial program, and operation of the Survey.

    National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) | Date: 1963
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    Occupational and environmental analysis of the cement, clay and pottery industries / by R.R. Sayers, J.M. Dallavalle, S.G. Bloomfield.

    Sayers, R. R. (Royd Ray), 1885-1965. | Date: 1937
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