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  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Rats living in the sewers. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • 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-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Obstructions on mooring-lines to stop rats boarding ships. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • 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-.
  • The black silhouette of a singer bearing the AIDS red ribbon and holding up a microphone in the air with silhouette musicians in the foreground; advertising an AIDS benefit concert at the Cathedral Esplanade in Lausanne on 14-15 June 1996 to support SID'Action. Colour lithograph.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • 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].
  • A T-cell infected with HIV within a poster by the New Scientist describing the science of AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A monster representing an influenza virus hitting a man over the head as he sits in his armchair. Pen and ink drawing by E. Noble, c. 1918.
  • A monster representing an influenza virus hitting a man over the head as he sits in his armchair. Pen and ink drawing by E. Noble, c. 1918.
  • A monster representing an influenza virus hitting a man over the head as he sits in his armchair. Pen and ink drawing by E. Noble, c. 1918.
  • TCM for epidemics: Niansha (pinch treatment)
  • TCM for epidemics: Guasha treatment, back view
  • TCM for epidemics: Guasha treatment, frontal view
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Crab-roe water
  • Map of health
  • Cholera Morbus notice