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The structure of an elite : the advisory structure of the U.S. Public Health Service / Nicholas C. Mullins.

Plagues and politics : the story of the United States Public Health Service / Fitzhugh Mullan.

Communicable disease center : 1948-1949 activities / Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center.

The other side of time : a combat surgeon in World War II / by Brendan Phibbs.

Medical care for seamen : the origin of public medical service in the United States / Robert Straus ; with a preface by Leonard A. Scheele ; published for the Dept. of Sociology, Yale University.

A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.

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.

A lecturer pointing to a large screen, on which projected diagrams of the bodies of a man and a woman are marked with red flags indicating areas where cancer may be first seen. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.

A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.

A healthy-looking man with a tourniquet having a blood test, as apparent health can conceal syphilis. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1941.

A red medicine bottle in blue wrapping, attractive but unable to cure gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1943 (?).

Vital statistics : a discussion of what they are and their uses in public health administration / by John W. Trask.

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.

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.

Occupational and environmental analysis of the cement, clay and pottery industries / by R.R. Sayers, J.M. Dallavalle, S.G. Bloomfield.

Leadership : a manual on conduct and administration / by William Colby Rucker.

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Vital statistics : a discussion of what they are and their uses in public health administration / by John W. Trask.

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.

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.

Occupational and environmental analysis of the cement, clay and pottery industries / by R.R. Sayers, J.M. Dallavalle, S.G. Bloomfield.

Leadership : a manual on conduct and administration / by William Colby Rucker.

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United States Public Health Service

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Vital statistics : a discussion of what they are and their uses in public health administration / by John W. Trask.

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.

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.

Occupational and environmental analysis of the cement, clay and pottery industries / by R.R. Sayers, J.M. Dallavalle, S.G. Bloomfield.

Leadership : a manual on conduct and administration / by William Colby Rucker.

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