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A soldier coughing over his food in the canteen and spreading germs over his colleagues. Colour lithograph, 1941/1945.

List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS from fever to red or purplish spots on the body; sixth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.

A cynical doctor describes the contents of his new cough mixture. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, 1844.

A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.

A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.

Lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Lithograph.

A man using a handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds to productive workers. Colour lithograph.

A police "Wanted" notice for a man sneezing without a handkerchief. Colour lithograph after Keith Monk.

Nine green and red diagrams with Portuguese lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

A man (Mr Smit) coughing and sneezing into people in a crowd. Colour lithograph after Hink, 194-.

A handkerchief trapped in a birdcage, representing the need to prevent the spread of germs by coughs and sneezes. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, 1946.

Three stages in a man's sneezing, represented by the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.

Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

On consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, and other diseases of the chest : their remedial and avertive treatment; addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, with copious observations on the diet and regimen necessary for invalids ; also an appendix, containing upwards of two hundred formulæ of the latest and most approved remedies, many valuable domestic recipes, and full directions for the practice of inhalation / by R. J. Culverwell.

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A handkerchief trapped in a birdcage, representing the need to prevent the spread of germs by coughs and sneezes. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, 1946.

Three stages in a man's sneezing, represented by the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.

Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS from fever to red or purplish spots on the body; sixth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.