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Preventive Medicine

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  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Preventive Medicine

24 images from works
  • What foods do you choose? : variety in foods gives tasty meals and helps to protect your health and that of your family.
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Digital sphygmomanometer
  • Medicine for fever of smallpox, Ekor Country Medicine creation for fever, Uyanga
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Blood pressure measurement - digital
  • What foods do you choose? : variety in foods gives tasty meals and helps to protect your health and that of your family.
  • Your food : how does it rate for health? / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Women, plumbers, and doctors, or, Household sanitation / by H.M. Plunkett.

Works from the collections

457 works

    • Books

    An introduction to preventive medicine / John Simpson.

    Simpson, John, 1921- | Date: 1970
    • Books
    • Online

    Winter and its dangers / by Hamilton Osgood.

    Osgood, Hamilton, 1839-1907 | Date: 1879
    • Books

    Preventive medicine in World War II.

    United States. Army Medical Service. | Date: 1955-
    • Videos
    • Online

    Breast self examination.

    | Date: 1950
    • Audio

    The Power of Peckham. Part 2.

    | Date: 1995
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Related topics

Public Health
Social Medicine
United Kingdom
Health Promotion
Hygiene
Public Health
History, 20th Century
United States
Health Policy
Communicable Disease Control

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