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  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Fourteen illustrated instructions in Basque on the necessity of taking precautions when handling blood or fluids contaminated with blood to avoid transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and other related infections; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A fact sheet about AIDS and HIV to mark 1st December 1991, World AIDS Day by the World Health Organization Global Program to Fight AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Ten people with leprosy (with warning clappers) approach Christ the healer. Etching.
  • 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.
  • An enlarged view of the HIV virus with a list of ten points about how the virus is transmitted. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Christ cures ten people with leprosy. Woodcut.
  • Christ healing a man of leprosy. Woodcut, 1571, after Jost Amman.
  • Fourteen illustrated precautions to be taken when handling blood or fluids contaminated with blood, in order to avoid transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and other related infections; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Christ cures a man of leprosy; an apostle holds a garment in front of him. Woodcut.
  • 'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A man dressed in absurd protective clothing against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
  • Christ healing a man of leprosy. Woodcut, 1571, after Jost Amman.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • World Tuberculosis Day in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Said Ali for Ministère de la Santé and Programme National de lutte contre la Tuberculose, ca. 2000.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • Illustrated guidelines on good laboratory practices and precautions during testing of Infectious diseases; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Qualigens Diagnostics. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • An HIV virus cell representing an information sheet on AIDS and how it is spread with numerous smaller illustrations and text; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India. Colour lithograph by Stephen Marazzi, ca. 1995.
  • Christ cures a man of leprosy; an apostle holds a garment in front of him. Woodcut.
  • Djibouti: a man in bed coughs, spreading tuberculosis to his wife and children. Colour lithograph by Salam Mohamed Saleh for Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de l'enseignement supérieur , ca. 2000.
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • A non-reusable syringe, with a warning about the risks of contracting diseases like AIDS, hepatitis and septicemia by reusing syringes. Colour lithograph by the Ministere della Sanità supported by Italian Pharmacy Federations, ca. 1995.
  • Hanley, Stoke & Fenton Joint Infectious Diseases Hospital, Staffordshire: floor plan. Photoprint, 1902.