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  • The larva and fly of a greenbottle (Lucilia caesar). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A fly on a grid, representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
  • Rats living in the sewers. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A baby sleeping with a fly on the teat of its milk bottle; a man setting up an Aeroxon trap to catch flies. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Rabies: a rabid dog attacking a girl. Colour lithograph, 1977.
  • A dead plague-infected rat. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat leaving a ship via the mooring rope, thus spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Obstructions on mooring-lines to stop rats boarding ships. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Spores of Bacillus pestis which caused the plague and its vector the human flea (Pulex irritans). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat on board a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • 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 blinding of Tobit by bird-droppings falling on his eyes. Woodcut by M. van Heemskerck.
  • A mad dog on the run in a London street: citizens attack it as it approaches a woman who has fallen over. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • Ways in which you cannot catch the HIV virus from hugging to telephones; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Rabies: the danger of importing cats, mice, dogs and rabbits into the British Isles. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Images that demonstrate that AIDS is not spread through social contact. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.