Tuberculosis: its dangers, how it is spread, its allies and enemies, and precautions to be taken against it. Colour lithograph with vignettes by A. Rapeño, ca. 1918.

In the centre, a graph showing the predominance of tuberculosis compared with other infectious diseases, and hortatory messages urging precautionary measures. Along the top and bottom and down each side are four series of scenes

Along the top, three scenes showing how tuberculosis is spread: spitting (two men meeting, one of them spitting) breathing in house dust (a woman sweeping dust and a little girl inhaling it), and things placed in the mouth (a workman taking a swig from a bottle borrowed from a colleague)

Down the left side, four scenes showing the allies of tuberculosis: intemperance (a man in a bar), overwork (a man working by candle-light), closed windows (a tuberculous girl sitting in a room with a spider's web over the window), dirty and dusty dwellings (a family in a slum)

Down the right side, four scenes showing the enemies of tuberculosis: the physician (a man in bed talking to a seated doctor), sunshine and open air (a farm worker in a ploughed field, sowing seed), rest (a man resting on a hilltop), and good food (a cook preparing a meal of pure (untainted) milk and two boiled eggs)

Along the bottom, four scenes showing precautions against tuberculosis: gathering and destroying saliva (a man spitting into a bottle), covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing (a man covering his mouth while walking on a winter afternoon), separate dining utensils (a woman and a man dining with differently designed crockery), and sleeping alone (a man in bed)

[Paris?] : Commission Américaine de Préservation contre la Tuberculose en France, [1918?] (Paris : Devambez, Imp.)

1 print : lithograph, printed in black and red ; text and image 116.2 x 75 cm

Combattez la tuberculose. Comment elle se propage. ... Les alliés de la tuberculose. ... Les ennemis de la tuberculose. ... Précautions qu'un tuberculeux doit prendre. ...A. Rapeño. Bears license no. : Visa no. 10.469

Most of the scenes bear the artist's signature "A. Rapeño" or initials AR

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)

Wellcome Collection 47668i