This Won't Hurt A Bit
Mar 31st
Medical Caricatures from 1736-1932 at Lowcountry Digital Library. Other than the fact that the guy has gout, I'd say the second illustration here is just for the risqué.
The Healthy Coal-Miner in the Pyramid of Life, or Death? 1912
Feb 15th
JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 939
This
pictorial graph shows the places in the temple of Hygeia1
of various British workers, their places on the stairs showing the
possibilities of long life, or not.
At
the bottom: general laborers, the backbone of the society, ranking well down
beyond virtually everyone else save for dock laborers.