A portico and the cross of Godfrey of Bouillon; representing academia and tuberculosis, as the elements of the sanatorium for students in the Netherlands. Lithograph by N. Raemaekers, ca. 1951 (?).

  • Raemaekers, Nico.
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[1950?]
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995818i
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A portico and the cross of Godfrey of Bouillon; representing academia and tuberculosis, as the elements of the sanatorium for students in the Netherlands. Lithograph by N. Raemaekers, ca. 1951 (?). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Nederlands Studenten Sanatorium at Laren opened in 1947. It housed 18 patients. A new building opened in 1951 with 85 patients. Most were tuberculous, but some were blind or variously disabled. The patients continued their studies, as well as arts and crafts and recreations, while in the sanatorium. As a result of the decline in tuberculosis, the sanatorium closed in 1964 (Sickenga and Spanjaard, op. cit.)

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[The Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [1950?] (Amsterdam : Offsetdruk: N.V. Drukkerijen Laporte & Dosse)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 63.5 x 48.6 cm

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Bears a hand holding a cross with two crossbars. This cross was adopted as the symbol of the fight against tuberculosis on 23 October 1902 at a Berlin conference, on the suggestion of Gilbert Sersiron. It had been the device on the standard of Godfrey of Bouillon, who had placed it on the tower of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1099. Its adoption indicated that the fight against tuberculosis was analogous to a crusade seen from the Christian point of view. Though similar in form, it had no significant connnection with the cross of Lorraine. (Information from Thierry Devinck, André Wilquin: publicités, Paris: Agence Culturelle de Paris, Mairie de Paris, 1991, p. 68)

References note

F.N. Sickenga and R.B. Spanjaard.,' Het Nederlands Studenten Sanatorium te Laren (N.H.), 1947-1965: een terugblik en een poging tot evaluatie', Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 1966 Dec 24, 110 (52): 2299-2304.

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Wellcome Collection 995818i

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