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Graphic Gallery: Yellow

Yellow is for cleanliness, but also for fever and illness.

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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

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  • Yellow fever: section of brain of a patient infected with yellow fever. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Yellow fever: section of the liver of a patient infected with yellow fever. Watercolour, ca. 1920.
  • Yellow fever: section of the liver of a patient infected with yellow fever. Watercolour, ca. 1920.
  • Yellow fever: section of a kidney of a patient infected with yellow fever. Watercolour, 1900/1930 (?).
  • Yellow fever: section of the large intestine of a patient infected with yellow fever. Watercolour, 1900/1930 (?).
  • Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871.
  • A girl suffering from yellow fever. Watercolour.
  • Yellow fever: laboratory equipment. Photographs, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Yellow fever: laboratory equipment. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Barranquilla, Colombia: a water filter attached to a tap at the Yellow Fever Campaign office. Photograph, 1900/1930.
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