Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.

Date:
1952
Reference:
660470i
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Description

A set of ten posters from the early 1950s aimed at informing an educated audience about the life-cycles of some of China's most prevalent parasites. There is sufficient text and detail on the posters (including drawings of the parasites magnified) to infer that these posters were directed at a medically-trained audience. Each poster bears multiple drawn colour illustrations (information from John Constable, 2007)

Publication/Creation

Shanghai : [publisher not identified], 1952.

Physical description

10 prints : lithographs, printed in colours ; sheets approximately 77 x 52.3 cm

Lettering

Renti qishengchong shenghuo lishi

Reference

Wellcome Collection 660470i

Contents

1. Fasciolopsis - largest intestinal fluke in humans. 2. (Translation uncertain) - A type of liver fluke ingested through eating undercooked or raw fish. 3. Lung fluke. 4. Japanese Blood fluke. 5. Roundworm. 6. Hookworm. 7. Pig tapeworm. 8. Plasmodium, the malarial protozoon. 9. Kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis). 10. The filaria worm, relapsing fever protozoon, amoebic dysentery protozoon

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Languages

Subjects

Holdings

  • Complete set

Where to find it

  • no. 1 Fasciolopsis - largest intestinal fluke in humans

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    660470i.1

  • no. 2 (Translation uncertain) - A type of liver fluke ingested through eating undercooked or raw fish

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    660470i.2

  • no. 3 Lung fluke

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    660470i.3

  • no. 4 Japanese blood fluke

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    660470i.4

  • no. 5 Roundworm

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    660470i.5

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