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La Course a la Mort

(The Race with Death.)
Ligue Nationale Française contre le Peril Vénérién, France, ca. 1926.
Color lithograph; reproduction of a pastel drawing; 69 x 88 cm.
Artist: Charles Emmanuel Jodelet (1883–1969).

Death watches a thoroughbred race of deadly diseases. The statistics below compare the annual mortality rates of tuberculosis, syphilis and cancer.


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Skeleton (death figure) represented by an image of a skull

Skeleton
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