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Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006.

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  • A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Ten people at a swimming pool, one of whom will be infected with syphilis before the age of fifty. Lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.
  • 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.

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    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.

    Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006. | Date: [1941/1945] | Reference: 493601i
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    A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.

    Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006. | Date: [1941] | Reference: 660169i
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    A red medicine bottle in blue wrapping, attractive but unable to cure gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1943 (?).

    Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006. | Date: [1943?] | Reference: 689081i
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    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.

    Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006. | Date: [1941] | Reference: 689082i
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    Syphilis: ten people, one of whom is diagnosed as having syphilis. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.

    Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006. | Date: [1940] | Reference: 660173i

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