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  • People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.
  • Symptoms of diarrhoea and dysentry in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • Saint Maternus. Engraving (?) and letterpress.