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  • A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.
  • Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife)
  • Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.
  • An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 / [William Harty] [Appendix].
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Report on the health of Liverpool
  • Arsenoterapia oral Stovarsol : lo que es oportuno saber del: Stovarsol / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Arsenoterapia oral Stovarsol : lo que es oportuno saber del: Stovarsol / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Vignerons réunis : Société Sainte-Jeanne : Banyuls-sur-Mer, le 1er novembre 1902.
  • Vignerons réunis : Société Sainte-Jeanne : Banyuls-sur-Mer, le 1er novembre 1902.
  • Vignerons réunis : Société Sainte-Jeanne : Banyuls-sur-Mer, le 1er novembre 1902.
  • Vignerons réunis : Société Sainte-Jeanne : Banyuls-sur-Mer, le 1er novembre 1902.
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: an arcade of shops with a road sweeper at work in the street. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • André-Antoine Blancheton. Lithograph by A. Devéria.
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.