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Immunity.

Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil : for internal & external use. For sale by all druggists.

A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Serum antidiphterique (Roux-Behring System) : prepared by Doctor Villejean.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: demonstration of an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne : the original and only genuine.

A mother holding her newborn baby, with a serious expresssion as she realizes its vulnerability to deadly infectious diseases; with a bottle of vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, advertising vaccination against those diseases. Colour process print by Sadolin, 195-.

Childhood protection : the following schedule was suggested at a Symposium on Childhood Immunization held in London, May 1959.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner.

Dear sir, we have the honour to inform you that we are the sole agents for the anti-diphtheric serium (Roux-Behring system) prepared by Doctor Villejean ...

Double immunité en trois injections / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Diphtheria / by George Turner.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

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Diphtheria

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Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Diphtheria / by George Turner.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Diphtheria

Images from the collections

Images referencing Diphtheria

Works from the collections

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Diphtheria / by George Turner.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

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