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  • The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabatelli.
  • The male and female signs entwined with two arrows at the centre labelled 'SIDA' within a wavy grey border; a leaflet warning about the AIDS epidemic by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.
  • The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • A T-cell infected with HIV within a poster by the New Scientist describing the science of AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Groups of men on a street spraying jets of water into plague infected houses, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by F. Aquila after Raphael after Virgil.
  • Leiden pest house, bird's-eye view. Etching.
  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague of 1720. Etching by J. Rigaud after M. Serre.
  • The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabatelli.
  • Scientists investigating the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.
  • The plague in Leiden in 1574: a doctor examines a urine flask surrounded by the ill, the dying and the dead. Line engraving.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour.
  • Men, women, and children praying at a shrine by the roadside during the 1873 cholera epidemic in Poland. Wood engraving by H. Woods, 1873.
  • A town in Manchuria just before the arrival of the plague and the Japanese invasion of 1931. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo. Lithograph by G. Castagnola.
  • An American soldier lying wounded; analogous to the sufferings of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A victim of the plague in Paris. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabatelli.

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