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  • Directions for the prevention and cure of the plague. Fitted for the poorer sort / [Anon].
  • India: metal rodent traps, for plague prevention, being distributed in an Indian city. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1915/1935 (?).
  • India: a laboratory in which dead rats are being examined as part of a plague-prevention programme. Watercolour, by E. Schwarz, 1915/1935 (?).
  • India: a line of men carrying metal traps for plague prevention on their heads, from the Health Department stables to be distributed in the nearby city. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir.
  • The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion. To which is added the charitable physician, prescribing cheap and absolute remedies, for prevention and cure thereof. Published for the benifit [sic] of all families.
  • The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion. To which is added the charitable physician, prescribing cheap and absolute remedies, for prevention and cure thereof. Published for the benifit [sic] of all families.
  • The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion. To which is added the charitable physician, prescribing cheap and absolute remedies, for prevention and cure thereof. Published for the benifit [sic] of all families.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.
  • A physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour, ca. 1910.
  • A physician wearing a plague preventive costume in Marseille, 1720. Watercolour, 19--.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection: with many easie medicines of small charge ... / Set down by the Colledge of Physicians.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection: with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set down by the Colledge of Physicians.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection: with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set down by the Colledge of Physicians.
  • Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament, 1866. The Lord Chancellor reading the Royal Speech in the House of Lords. The Queen makes reference to the cattle plague and the orders which have been made to prevent the spread of the disease.
  • Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament, 1866. The Lord Chancellor reading the Royal Speech in the House of Lords. The Queen makes reference to the cattle plague and the orders which have been made to prevent the spread of the disease.
  • 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.
  • Oracion contra la peste : O mi Señor Jesucristo! Dios justo: Dios immortal: tened piedad de nosotros y de todo el género humano ... Amen.
  • Croce : Li San Zaccaria vescovo di Gerusalemme, al quale facendo orazione a pro quella città devastata della peste, fu inspirato il presente mistero col quale restò placata sua Divina Maestà facendo cessare il sopraccennato castigo.
  • Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an aduise set downe vpon Her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shalbe infected.
  • Carolus der Sechste von Gottes Genaden Erwöhlter Römischer Kayser zu allen Zeiten Mehrer deß Reichs, König in Spanien, Hungarn un Böhaimb etc. : Entbieten allen und jeden Unseren Hof-Raths-Praesidenten, Vitzthumben ... Unseren Gruß und Gnad zuvor und fügen denselben zuwissen, demnach bekandt, was gestalten vor einem Jahr in dem Königreich Hungaren sich eine gefährliche Seuche gezaigt, welche anheur auch in dem Ertz-Hertzogthumb Under-Österreich under einigen Persohnen verspürret würdet ... München den 18 Monats-Tag Augusti, Anno 1713.
  • Nicolai Abrahami Frambesarii ... Opera medica. Quibus continentur I. Canones et consultationes medicinales ... veram, medendi methodum & praxin sex prioribus libris exhibentes. II. Canones chirurgici ... tribus posterioribus libris proponentes. III. Apologia pro veritate & innocentia medicamentorum chymicorum adversus criminatores. IV. Laurea academica Frambesariana. V. De praeservatione pestis / [Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière].
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • Il Magistrato, e Conservatori Generali della Sanità in Torino residenti / Razan, segr.
  • A stippled impression of a woman pulling away from a man on a bed pulling her skirt up; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Eugenio Dittborn, ca. 1995.
  • Aggiunta al bando di proibizione, e sospensione do commercio de' 20. Giugno 1743 ... dato in Firenze, dall Uffizio di Sanità di Firenze li 2. Luglio 1743 / Urbano Pierattini, Cancelliere.
  • Bando sopra la sanità : il Cardinale Rubini legato : havendo la sanità di Nostro Signore col Suo sommo zelo per la conservazione della publica salute fatto spedire, e publicare in Roma l'infrascritto bando sopra la sanità, ordiniamo, e commandiamo sia anche in questa legatione publicato, & in tutte le sue parti puntualmente osservato sotto la pene, che in esso si contengono. Dat. in Pesaro nel Palazzo Apostolico questo di 17. Gennaro 1691 / P. Patriarca di Gerusalemme Vicelegato ; Pietro Card. Otthoboni, Gio: Battista Spinola Segr.
  • Dr Wu Lien Teh.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice, used to disinfect clothing. Photograph.