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  • Modo e ordine securo da preservarse e curarse dal pestifero morbo: novamente aggregato / [Giovanni Antonio Bassino].
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague of 1720. Etching by J. Rigaud after M. Serre.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.
  • Allegorical female figure assisting victims of the 1720 plague in Marseille. Lithograph by H. Aubry-Lecomte, 1835, after F. Gérard, 1834.
  • A physician wearing a plague preventive costume in Marseille, 1720. Watercolour, 19--.
  • Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa. Aquatint by G.A. Lehmann after Baron Gros.
  • Accusing the anointers in the great plague of Milan in 1630; a scene from Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
  • A monk visiting the victims of the great plague of Milan in 1630; an episode in Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
  • Saint Mamert, a monk.
  • An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Transformations of damp Qi in Chou-Wei years, Chinese woodcut
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa. Etching by W. Angus, 1805, after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Chinese woodcut: Talisman against epidemic diseases
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • [A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilece].
  • Saponaria officinalis 'Alba Plena'
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Hailstones
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cinnabar
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.