A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.

A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.

A father dips his displeased child into water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle; he emerges covered in filth. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.

1 print : lithograph ; image 15.5 x 10.9 cm

1 print : wood engraving ; border 15.3 x 12 cm

What can window-gardens do for our health? / by Elizabeth Twining.

Risky relations : family, kinship and the new genetics / Katie Featherstone [and others].

The power of soap and water : a dream that came true  / [M.B.].

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A phrenologist holding a skull palpates a girl's skull, while her mother looks on. Lithograph by A-N. Delaunois after A. Debacq.

A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.

What can window-gardens do for our health? / by Elizabeth Twining.

Risky relations : family, kinship and the new genetics / Katie Featherstone [and others].

The power of soap and water : a dream that came true / [M.B.].