Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Penicillin cures this disease
Contributor (Organization):
World Health Organization. Division of Public Information.
Subject (Genre):
Posters
Subject (MeSH Term):
World Health
Subject (MeSH Term):
Yaws drug therapy
Subject (MeSH Term):
Penicillins therapeutic use
Publication Information:
[Geneva : World Health Organization, Division of Public Information, 1958]
Publication Country:
Switzerland
Copyright Statement:
This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
Order No.:
A026300
Physical Description:
1 photomechanical print (poster) : b&w ; 51 x 35 cm.
Image Description:
White poster with black lettering. Upper portion of poster features visual image, reproductions of two b&w photos. Dominant photo shows a child with yaws, with his face covered by crusty growths, and his mother. Smaller photo in the upper right corner shows the mother and child, with the child now cured of yaws. Title below photos, caption below title. Note in lower left corner.
Note (General):
"World health advances--WHO picture set no. 2."
Note (General):
Photos, Eric Schwab.
Note (General):
Picture caption: This hideous affliction is called yaws ... WHO and UNICEF had treated 25 million such cases.
Language:
eng
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Call Number:
PP046265 map
Record UI:
101438647

Penicillin cures this disease

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