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Sexually transmitted diseases - Prevention

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  • Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • A warning against sexually transmitted diseases: in a three-horse race watched by Death, syphilis is about to overtake tuberculosis, while cancer comes third. Colour lithograph by E.-C. Jodelet, 1926.
  • A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • An American sailor looking at a prostitute with a warning to use a condom as a protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Lithographic match-book cover.
  • A young man and a young woman walking blindfolded along an idyllic lakeside path towards a satyr; representing ignorance leading to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1925.
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    A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

    Mount, Reginald. | Date: [1943/1944] | Reference: 22646i
    • Books

    Strengthening collaboration in microbicide development / report of a meeting organised by the International Working Group on Microbicides, 3 November 2000.

    | Date: 2000
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    Control of sexually transmitted diseases : a handbook for the design and management of programs / editors, Gina A. Dallabetta, Marie Laga, Peter R. Lamptey ; with the assistance of James Cassell, Kathleen Henry, Mary O'Grady.

    | Date: [1997]
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    The Contagious Diseases Acts (Women) from a sanitary point of view : showing how and why such despotic measures not only fail to repress venereal disease, but tend to increase its most serious manifestations : containing the substance of a paper read before the Medical Society of London, Jan. 17th, 1870 / by Charles Bell Taylor.

    Taylor, Charles Bell. | Date: 1870
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    Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.

    Games, Abram, 1914-1996. | Date: [1941] | Reference: 20273i
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