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  • A monster with poisonous slime oozing from its mouth; representing sexually transmitted diseases in Germany after World War II. Colour lithograph after H. Ehlers, 1946.
  • Foot and mouth disease virus particle
  • Structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus
  • Tongue, mouth, and moustache of a man with skin disease: two figures. Watercolour, 1892.
  • Tongue, mouth, and moustache of a man with skin disease: two figures. Watercolour, 1892.
  • Head of a man with a skin disease on his mouth. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • The face of a man, with mouth open wide, displaying a diseased area of tissue on the soft palate and uvula: includes a detail showing the progression of the disease in the mouth eleven days later. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • Head of a man with a disease affecting his face (around the mouth and chin); a diseased penis, and a group of sores in detail. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1858.
  • The face of a man, with mouth open wide, displaying diseased areas of tissue on the soft palate and uvula: includes a detail showing additional areas of disease on the patient's gum and upper lip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • Above, diseased skin on a mouth, showing symptoms of chancre of the lip, below, an open mouth with diseased tissue showing symptoms of chancre of the right tonsil. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae. Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The face of a woman with her mouth open, displaying severely diseased tissue on the tongue. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1870.
  • The open mouth of a man suffering from diseased tissue on the soft palate and uvula. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • The open mouth of a man suffering from syphilis, showing diseased tissue under the tongue (?). Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Diseased areas of tissue in the mouth, close to the tonsils, and on the penis: two figures. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • The face of a woman with her mouth open, displaying diseased tissue on the tongue and broken teeth. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1874.
  • Red and yellow circles (smallpox pustules) in the form of an open-mouthed face, with text offering a reward for notification of the disease. Colour lithograph after René Gauch.
  • The face of a man suffering from syphilis, shown with mouth open wide, displaying areas of diseased tissue on the tongue and upper lip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1869.
  • The face of a man with mouth open wide, displaying the symptoms of cancer, with an area of diseased tissue seen on the tongue. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1859.
  • The face of a man, with mouth open wide, displaying a hole or area of diseased tissue on the soft palate, above the uvula. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • The face of a man with mouth open wide, displaying the symptoms of cancer of the tongue, with areas of severely diseased tissue seen on the tongue. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1865.
  • A child suffering from noma (cancrum oris). Photograph by M. Torrani, ca. 1880.
  • Bacilli of tonsillitis (Vincent's angina). Drawing by H. Vincent.
  • Vincent's angina: microscopic views of spirochetes (left) and bacillus fusiformis (right). Drawing by Jean Hyacinthe Vincent.
  • It's time to go veggie : for a free information pack call Viva! now: 01273 777688, www.viva.org.uk / Viva!.
  • It's time to go veggie : for a free information pack call Viva! now: 01273 777688, www.viva.org.uk / Viva!.
  • The face of a woman looks out with side profiles of three other male and female faces and the back view of another woman's head; a warning that AIDS is not the only sexually transmissible disease by the AIDS/STD Unit, Health Department Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.