Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 1.
- Ephemera
About this work
Description
Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes a set of 6 colour Liebig cards issued in 1951 called: De bilharziosis - showing the bacteria and the infection, a set of 6 colour Liebig cards issued in 1942 about mosquitoes, information on shingles, chickenpox, cold sores, diphtheria, leprosy, The Leprosy Mission (1979?), malaria (including stamps and a first day cover from the United Nations in New York in 1962 with portraits of Ilya Metchnikov, Alphonse Laveran, Patrick Manson, Sir Ronald Ross, Battista Grassi & Alexander J. Sinton and a 2008 licensed taxi receipt advertising the malariahotspots.co.uk website, sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline), mosquito control, travel advice and antimosquito products on sale at Boots the chemists, a taxi cab receipt advertising the malariahotspots.co.uk website with details about malaria and protecting yourself (GlaxoSmithKline, Jan. 2008), M.E. (chronic fatigue syndrome), Measles: protect your children (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, ca. 1945 - yellow and greeen versions), Measles (Central Council for Health Education, 1950s), measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination, post herpetic neuralgia, pre- 1850 leaflets about cholera, WHO Europe Conference on the prevention of the inter-country spread of infectious diseases (June 1974), NHS measles / MMR vaccination (2012, May 2013 printing).
Physical description
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- Communicable Diseases
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Herpes Zoster
- Meningitis
- Rubella
- Malaria
- Measles
- Pneumococcal Infections
- Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
- Schistosomiasis
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
- Central Council for Health Education (Great Britain)
- London County Council. Public Health Department
- British Empire Leprosy Relief Association
- Leprosy Mission
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- National Mosquito Extermination Society (New York)
- Boots Company
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH500