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Preventive health services

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  • A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.
  • A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Screening for good health : the Australian guide to health screening and immunisation / Martin Bray, Kerry Kirke, Nicola Spurrier.

    Bray, Martin. | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Innovating for the health of all.

    | Date: 2009
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    • Online

    A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 16066i
    • Books

    The English system : quarantine, immigration and the making of a port sanitary zone / Krista Maglen.

    Maglen, Krista. | Date: 2014
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.

    | Reference: 16065i
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