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Concept

Degeneration

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  • Forms of misbehaviour, drunkeness, debauchery, and violence among Sikhs. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Monocyte with organelles - TEM
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • Mr. Lambkin suffering from excess food and wine, his friends try to make him feel better. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
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Catalogue

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    Degeneration / by Max Nordau.

    Nordau, Max Simon, 1849-1923. | Date: 1898
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    Race decadence : an examination of the causes of racial degeneracy in the United States / by William S. Sadler.

    Sadler, William S. (William Samuel), 1875-1969. | Date: 1923
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    Monocyte with organelles - TEM

    Rob Young
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    Collagen damage - TEM

    Rob Young
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    The human harvest / by David Starr Jordan.

    Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. | Date: 1907
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