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A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: demonstration of an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

A mother holding her newborn baby, with a serious expresssion as she realizes its vulnerability to deadly infectious diseases; with a bottle of vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, advertising vaccination against those diseases. Colour process print by Sadolin, 195-.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner.

Annual report for the year 1929-30 : 32nd year of issue adopted by the Board on 29 March 1930 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Crisp, Edwards (c. 1806-1882), MD

A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

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Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Crisp, Edwards (c. 1806-1882), MD

A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.