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  • The history of the contagious cholera; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure / By James Kennedy.
  • 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].
  • The lips of a man and woman kissing with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. An HIV-positive man does not kiss'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • Hands form the shape of the AIDS red ribbon; with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. With HIV-positive do not work'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • A condom amidst speckled blue amorphous shapes with a message to save yourself from AIDS and that it is carefulness that should be contagious; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • The back view of woman in a tight white strappy dress who is embraced by a man; with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. With HIV (positive) women do not stroke/caress'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • A forlorn-looking boy wearing dungarees stands with a ball under one arm and with one brace undone; with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. With HIV (positive) children do not play'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • Two men stand next to each other looking to the right, one wearing rolled down dungarees to reveal his bare chest; with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. With HIV (positive) [men] do not work'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : the animals order : notice is hereby given that the pigstye situate at Foxham, in the parish of Christian Malford, in the county of Wilts., in the occupation of Henry Freegard, is, by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, ordered, determined, and declared to be a place infected with swine fever... / by order, R.W. Merriman.
  • A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.
  • A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : swine fever order, 1879 : notice is hereby given that the farm premises, called Gate Farm, in the parish of Bremhill, in the county of Wilts, in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Carpenter, are by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, ordered, determined, and declared to be places INFECTED WITH SWINE FEVER... / by order, R.W. Merriman.
  • Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665: : with precautionary directions against the like contagion. / By Nath. Hodges, M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the city all that time. To which is added, An essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France, and the most probable means to prevent its spreading here. By John Quincy, M. D.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : the animals order : notice is hereby given that a pigstye situate at Studley, in the Parish of Bremhill, in the county of Wilts, in the occupation of Mrs. Eliza Chivers, is, by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, ordered, determined, and declared to be a place infected with SWINE FEVER, and that the limits of such pigstye are the limits of such infected place... / by order, R.W. Merriman.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : the animals order : notice is hereby given that the pigstye situate at Patterdown Farm, in the parish of Chippenham, in the county of Wilts., in the occupation of Mr. William Dew, which by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, was, on the 27th day of November, 1884 ordered, determined, and declared to be a place INFECTED WITH SWINE FEVER, is now by the said local authority to be free from swine fever / by order, R.W. Merriman.
  • 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.
  • Protection against ORF / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.) London.
  • Protection against ORF / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.) London.
  • Cow Poxed, Ox Faced Boy - illustration to "Cow-Pox Inoculation No Security Against Small-Pox Infection" by W. Rowley.
  • Engraving of daily development of cow-pox and smallpox.
  • The Ebola virus
  • The Ebola virus
  • Zika virus, illustration
  • Reverse transcription, HIV viral life cycle, illustration
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, used to disinfect clothing. Photograph.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice; a machine for disinfecting letters and papers. Photograph.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice: an oil cloth mask with a bronze beak and a terracotta model of a foot and leg. Photograph.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice: an oil cloth mask with a bronze beak and a terracotta model of a foot and leg. Photograph.