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Disinfectants

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Sanitation

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Images from the collections

Images about Disinfectants

108 images from works
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Wir spülen für Sie mit dem langen Arm : Calmic cleaning compounds / Calmic GmbH.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Advert for Lifebuoy Soap
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Works from the collections

268 works

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    • Online

    People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

    Trye-Maison, G. de, active approximately 1910. | Date: [1910?] | Reference: 460155i
    • Ephemera

    In war-time emergencies make your water supply absolutely safe ... : what to do in emergency / Milton Proprietary Ltd.

    Milton Proprietary Ltd. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Books

    Im Kampf gegen die Seuche / herausgegeben von der Schülke ' Mayr Aktiengesellschaft.

    | Date: 1940
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    His Excellency Professor Dr. von Bergmann, the celebrated Berlin surgeon, writes: : "The best means of treatment at present is the Bardella because it can be kept ready at hand for immediate use ...".

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1907?]
    • Ephemera

    Dried condy's fluid : prepared for instantaneous solution, containing all the disinfecting oxydising and antiseptic properties of condy's fluid / Condy & Mitchell, Ltd.

    | Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Wastewater
Hygiene
Sewerage
Manure
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Disinfection
Soaps
Detergents
Cesspools

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