Prevention and treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950.

Date:
[1950?]
Reference:
576143i
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Description

A panel is left blank for overprinting with the addresses of the nearest clinics

Publication/Creation

[London?] : Issued by the Ministry of Health, [1950?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 37.4 x 24.1 cm

Lettering

Syphilis and gonorrhoea. VD. If not treated skilfully in its early stages, syphilis is often a killing disease. Untreated gonorrhoea is also serious; it may cause chronic ill health or make parenthood impossible. ... Lettering continues: For those who are infected, or think they may be, advice and treatment are free and confidential at any VD clinic. Addresses of the nearest clinics: .... VD can be cured [device of hand in letters VD] if treated early but clean living is the real safeguard. … Prepared by the Central Office of Information Bears printers reference no.: M.M.P. Ltd. Wt P67703-2693

Creator/production credits

By Abram Games? Lacks his signature, but the form of the red letters VD is similar to his, and the work includes the device of the transparent hand reversed out of the red letters VD, which is one of Games's designs

Reference

Wellcome Collection 576143i

Notes

In sequence with Wellcome Library no. 576146i (differentiated by a café-au-lait ground, whereas the present print is on a sea-green ground)

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