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  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A parasitic nematode (Filaria immitis) and its vector, the mosquito (Myzomyia superpicta). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Hydatidosis (echinococcosis): how it is caught, and what the symptoms look like. Colour lithograph by Peña Plata, ca. 1937.
  • The bandicot tick (Ixodes reduvius), vector of the louping-ill parasite. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Haemogregarina muris and its vector, the mite (Lelaps echidninus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of the sheep-nostril-fly (Oestrus ovis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of a house fly (Musca domestica). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of Chrysomyia macellaria. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of Dermatobia noxialis. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of a horse botfly (Gastrophilus intestinalis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of the ox warble-fly (Hypoderma bovis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A parasitic worm (Filaria species) and its vector beetle (Tenebrio molitor). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Spores of Bacillus pestis which caused the plague and its vector the human flea (Pulex irritans). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of a greenbottle (Lucilia sericata). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of a greenbottle (Lucilia caesar). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Spores of Bacillus pestis which caused the plague and its vector the human flea (Pulex irritans). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Flies infecting food. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.
  • 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.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.