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  • Typhus abdominalis and Pneumonia.
  • Typhus abdominalis and Aspergillus glaucus, x100.
  • Typhus prevention: (Indian?) soldiers having their kit disinfected in order to prevent typhus and relapsing fever. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Dissection of a diseased intestine, showing signs of typhus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A tropical typhus area: two men stand amidst lush vegetation and tree stumps. Photograph, 1920/1930.
  • An oil palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • Alexandria (Rue Ibrahimich), Egypt: a city street with goats, during a typhus epidemic. Photograph, 1915/1925 (?).
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • Soldiers at Mainz suffering from typhus, lying in the streets. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A. Raffet.
  • The bathing house (hammam), the Bab Sidra mosque, Alexandria, Egypt: during a typhus epidemic. Photograph, 1915/1925 (?).
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a food shop interior with Malay staff, where an outbreak of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • World War II: hygiene instructions against typhus for the British army in Italy. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, 1944.
  • Fumigating a building (to destroy typhus-carrying lice ?) with the Clayton Type B machine, England (?). Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • An account of the jail-fever, or typhus carcerum: as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781 / [John Heysham].
  • An account of the jail-fever, or typhus carcerum: as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781 / [John Heysham].
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: busy street scene showing the K. Mohamed Kassim eating house where a case of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus: close-up of the trunk. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • The typhus louse, against which Russian citizens are urged to protect themselves by washing themselves and their clothes vigorously. Colour lithograph by Kaznacheev, 192-.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a food shop with Malay staff, showing open sacks and boxes of produce, in an urban area prone to outbreaks of typhus. Photograph, 1915/1925.
  • After the defeat of the White Army, a new white peril threatens Russia in the form of the typhus louse, against which the Red soldiers fight by washing themselves and their clothes vigorously. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
  • A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.