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Termes médicaux utiles aux personnes migrantes ... / ARCAT.

A pink piece of paper bearing the words 'AIDS' torn on one side against a turquoise background with the words 'Sehen sie klar? 'Schauen sie Vorbei!' [See it clearly? Look they pass!]; an advertisement for advice, assistance and information by the AIDS health counseling offices, Berlin. Colour lithograph by Sehstern.

Ways to catch the flu. Colour lithograph after designs by Coggin, 194-.

A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.

The breviarie of health: vvherin doth folow, remedies for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman / Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, doctor of phisicke: an English-man. Now newly corrected and amended, with some approued medicines that neuer were in print before this impression, & are aptly placed in their proper chapters, by men skilfull in phisicke and chirurgerie.

A young woman as Hygieia (Health). Stipple engraving by C. Taylor, 1789, after S. Shelley.

A sculpture of a naked young man seated, representing the National Socialist ideal of strength and health resulting from willpower and self-confidence. Colour lithograph, 193-.

Healthcare and prevention of disease in Communist China. Colour lithographs, 195-.

Detecting colon cancer in human tissues, LM

A fit young Japanese man standing in the rays of the sun; advertising Japanese Health Week, 1940. Colour lithograph, 1940.

Florida corona que ad sanitatis hominum conseruationem ac longeuam vitam perducendam sunt pernecessaria continens / Ab Anthonio Gazio Parauino ... composita.

Hints toward physical perfection, or, The philosophy of human beauty : showing how to acquire and retain bodily symmetry, health, and vigor, secure long life, and avoid the infirmities and deformities of age / by D. H. Jacques.

Essai sur la santé et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie / Traduit de l'anglois de M. Cheyne par M.***.

Uṇavum uṭalnalamum / Cuvāmi Civāṉantar ; Tamiḻākkam Ki. Vāṉamāmalai.

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A fit young Japanese man standing in the rays of the sun; advertising Japanese Health Week, 1940. Colour lithograph, 1940.

Florida corona que ad sanitatis hominum conseruationem ac longeuam vitam perducendam sunt pernecessaria continens / Ab Anthonio Gazio Parauino ... composita.

Hints toward physical perfection, or, The philosophy of human beauty : showing how to acquire and retain bodily symmetry, health, and vigor, secure long life, and avoid the infirmities and deformities of age / by D. H. Jacques.

Essai sur la santé et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie / Traduit de l'anglois de M. Cheyne par M.***.

Uṇavum uṭalnalamum / Cuvāmi Civāṉantar ; Tamiḻākkam Ki. Vāṉamāmalai.