Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12256

    ‘Drugs solving the meat problem’

    Date
    1945
    Creator
    William Augustin Kolliker (1905 - 1995, Swiss-born American) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 395mm
    width (print): 275mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Cartoon graphic illustration of giant-sized germs snatching piglets on their way to market. Supporting an article on the use of penicillin with other pharmaceuticals and chemicals in American animal husbandry.

    Detail of a newspaper cutting, apparently from the Sunday supplement The American Weekly (New York, USA, 1896-1966) but with the (erroneous?) cutting service label of the California Examiner (Los Angeles, California USA), 24 June 1945.

    Captioned: ‘Disease Germs Are Robbing the Pork Barrel by Killing Off One Baby Pig in Three’. Signed lower right ‘W.Kolliker.’ From the archive collection of Howard Florey.

    William Augustin Kolliker (1905-1995) Swiss-born American illustrator was Art Director and Art Editor of the American Weekly.

    Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > United States
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