Germs Collection

Coughs & Sneezes Poster
Humorous poster issued by the Ministry of Health during the Second World War and featuring a woman sneezing without catching the germs in a handkerchief

Sanitas disinfecting fluid advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for The Sanitas Co. Ltd and Sanitas Disinfecting Fluid, indispensible in sick room and nursing wards for sponging the sick, washing wounds and sores

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Coughs & Sneezes Poster
Humorous poster from the Ministry of Health showing a man sneezing without a handkerchief on a London Underground train during WWII

Poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
Ministry of Health poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases -- trap the germs in your handkerchief

Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement
Advert for Cephos cold and flu powder depicting a poorly looking woman, dressed rather smartly, and standing, hanging onto a strap on a bus or tube train

Cold mixture advertisement
An advert for Stotherts Chest and Lung Mixture where two boxers show how to defend yourself against nasty germs

Advert for Milton against influenza 1918
Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918

Cartoon, Essence of Parliament (MPs)
Cartoon, Essence of Parliament -- Mr Punch shows members of the House of Commons as microscopic bugs in a petri dish. 1883

Poster, The British public is not to be sneezed at
Ministry of Health poster, The British public is not to be sneezed at -- coughs and sneezes spread diseases -- use your handkerchief to trap the germs and prevent droplet infection. circa 1950s

WW2 Poster -- Dysentery and Diarrhoea
Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Colour lithograph information poster, after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. The poster poses questions relating to the dangers and causes of disease, and provides helpful hints

Poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases, WW2
Ministry of Health poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases -- trap the germs in your handkerchief. Help to keep the nation fighting fit. Date: 1940s

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913
Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds

Repelling a Flu Assault by Heath Robinson
Here, in this cartoon by Heath Robinson, we have the British countering the German biological weaponry, an army of flu germs. Date: 1915

Advert for kruschen saits - a-tish-oo! 1918
Don t be a afraid to sneeze ! Every grown-up, man and woman alike, should know the value of the Kruschen Habit as a safe, sure simple remedy against all inflammations of which the pus-germ-pace

Advert for Evans Pastilles against influenza infection 1918
Take one in time Between January 1918 to December 1920 the influenza pandemic killed millions of mainly young healthy adults

Sanitas - destroys all disease germs
An advertisement for Sanitas brand disinfectant fluid, as recommended by medical journal The Lancet. Hygiea, Greek goddess of health

Sanatorium in the Sky
Sanatoria in the sky will be even healthier than in the mountains - theres unlimited sunshine above the clouds, and you leave the germs down there on the surface

Disinfecting a home - 2
DISINFECTING A HOME Infected bedlinen is fumigated in a horse-drawn portable Stove to destroy germs of tuberculosis or cholera

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