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Rabies: the danger of importing cats, mice, dogs and rabbits into the British Isles. Colour lithograph, 1990.

A child with diarrhoea, malnutrition and vector related disease and means of prevention: The Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph by P. Wambu, ca. 2000.

The path of infection of plague from rats via fleas to man. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African forest / David Quammen.

On the non-identity of the parasites met with in Favus, Tinea Tonsurans, and Pityriasis Versicolor : including, proofs derived from the occurrence of these diseases amongst the lower animals, and their transmission from them to man / by Dr. M'Call Anderson.

The danger of disease from flies and lice.

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A child with diarrhoea, malnutrition and vector related disease and means of prevention: The Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph by P. Wambu, ca. 2000.

The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African forest / David Quammen.

On the non-identity of the parasites met with in Favus, Tinea Tonsurans, and Pityriasis Versicolor : including, proofs derived from the occurrence of these diseases amongst the lower animals, and their transmission from them to man / by Dr. M'Call Anderson.

The danger of disease from flies and lice.

The path of infection of plague from rats via fleas to man. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.