{"id":5586,"date":"2014-12-11T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:09:36","slug":"dangers-to-health-in-our-own-home-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/12\/11\/dangers-to-health-in-our-own-home-1877\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers to Health in Our Own Home, 1877"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Edition pamphlet, Dangers to Health in Our Own Home<\/em> (1877).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NLM historian Michael Sappol was a recent guest blogger at The Ultimate History Project. \u00a0 The post<\/a> explores a whimsically illustrated and persuasive Victorian era pamphlet, Dangers to Health in Our Own Home<\/em> (1877), by T. Pridgin Teale (1831\u20131923), an eminent British surgeon. Sappol explains:<\/p>\n

“Teale sought to educate ‘the public in the details of domestic sanitary matters’ through a ‘series of diagrams drawn, not as pictures, but as forcible expressions of facts.’ In an era when illustrated newspapers and magazines, and books like Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, were captivating a mass audience, visual materials seemed to have an almost magical rhetorical power. And for Teale the diagram was most powerful of all….”<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here:<\/p>\n

Forcible expressions of facts: The very Victorian sanitary picture-book of T. Pridgin Teale – The Ultimate History Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four English-language editions of <\/em>Dangers to Health can be found in the collection of the National Library of Medicine, along with German and Italian translations. A full-text, searchable version of <\/em>Dangers to Health can be found here: http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/63050790R<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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