The sword of Damocles hangs over a laurel wreath, representing complacency about tuberculosis in France after World War I. Colour lithograph after G. Capon and G. Dorival, 1918.
- Date:
- [1918]
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- 676210i
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[Paris] : Commission américaine contre la tuberculose en France, [1918] (Paris (35 Rue Boissy d'Anglais) : Editions de "L'art et la mode")
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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 101.2 x 78.5 cm
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L'autre péril: la tuberculose. G. Capon, Geo. Dorival 18. Ne nous endormons pas sur nos lauriers. La tuberculose nous ménace. Il faut la vaincre. Commission américaine contre la tuberculose en France. Visa 14,346
References note
Julia F. Irwin, '"Sauvons les bébés": child health and U.S. humanitarian aid in the First World War', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2012, 86: 37-65 (on American aid in France)
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Wellcome Collection 676210i
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