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Degeneration

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Eugenics
Sociology
Heredity
Vice

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Images from the collections

Images about Degeneration

12 images from works
  • 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.
  • Degeneration of myelin sheath in sclera
  • Mr. Lambkin at home ill from overindulgence being visited by a doctor friend. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • Collagen damage - TEM
  • Degenerating collagen fibrils in glaucoma
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • Arterial nodules, horse

Works from the collections

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    Degeneration / by Max Nordau.

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

    William S. Sadler | Date: 1923
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    Monocyte with organelles - TEM

    Rob Young
    • Digital Images
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    Collagen damage - TEM

    Rob Young
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    The human harvest / by David Starr Jordan.

    David Starr Jordan | Date: 1907
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Related topics

Eugenics
Comparative literature
Electron microscopes
Psychopathology
Psychiatry
Mental illness - Genetic aspects
Bachelors
Criminology
19th-20th centuries

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