With these weapons, we beat tuberculosis -- hygiene, fresh air, sunlight, rest, temperance, cleanliness, perseverance
Description:
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., T. Corbella on upper right on plate; printer insignia on lower left on plate: Stab. Lit. E. Guazzoni. Via Gheti Roma, Fuori Porta S. Giovanni., Date supplied by curator., Italian public health poster from World War I with remarkable allegory of skeletal and demonic "Tuberculosis" cowering under attack of many "swords" indicating the many modes of attacking the disease., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted on linen.
Publisher:
Stab. Lit. E. Guazzoni. Via Gheti Roma, Fuori Porta S. Giovanni
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Tuberculosis, Prevention, Medicine, Preventive, Skeletons, and Daggers & swords
All three texts translated into Italian by Sebastiano Manilio., Illustrated with 10 full-page Venetian woodcuts; one of which, The Dissection, is printed in color., and Yale Med copy imperfect: leaf 1 wanting and supplied in facsimile.
