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Animals that changed the world : disease carriers.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
Insects as carriers of disease GHF Nuttall 1899
Date: 1899-1934Reference: PP/FPW/B.169/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
A historical note upon diptera as carriers of disease : Paré, Déclat / by Howard A. Kelly.
Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943.Date: 1901- Pictures
The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
Brisbane (Qld.). City Council. Department of Health.Date: [1928?]Reference: 562405i- Books
Notes on some Indian species of the genus Phlebotomus. Part XI, The rôle of insects of the genus Phlebotomus as carriers of disease, with special reference to India / by J.A. Sinton.
Sinton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1884-1956.Date: [1925]- Digital Images
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Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
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Veterinary: Animals
Date: c.1950- c.1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/V1Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Bodies : sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend / Gillian Bennett.
Bennett, GillianDate: 2005- Books
Sickle cell disease and the social sciences : health, racism and disablement / Simon Dyson.
Dyson, SimonDate: 2019- Books
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On the role of insects, arachnids and myriapods, as carriers in the spread of bacterial and parasitic diseases of man and animals. A critical and historical study / by George H. F. Nuttall.
Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner, 1862-1937.Date: 1900- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
Beasts of the earth : animals, humans, and disease / E. Fuller Torrey, Robert H. Yolken.
Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-Date: [2005], ©2005- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence Regarding Measurement of Animals
Date: Oct-Nov 1895Reference: GALTON/2/5/3/8Part of: Galton Papers- Journals
Report of proceedings under the Disease of Animals Acts for the year ... / Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland.
Date: 1901-- Books
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The American eclectic practice of medicine, as applied to the diseases of domestic animals : in which every form of disease peculiar to animals is treated in accordance with the most approved methods of modern science : with a treatise on bleeding, blistering, mercurializing, and the pernicious effects of minerals on the animal fibers : with a list of poisons and their antidotes : together with a historical sketch of the horse, and the principles of breeding, rearing, training, and the general management of the horse / by Nelson N. Titus.
Titus, Nelson N.Date: 1862- Pictures
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A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2010600iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Books
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A new, complete, and universal body, or system of natural history; being a grand, accurate, and extensive display of animated nature. Containing accurate descriptions and faithful histories of all the several classes of animals, which inhabit the air, the earth, and the water, in the several parts of the world. Including an authentic account of all the infinite variety of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, and amphibious creatures, such as frogs, lizards, serpents, &c. ... Comprehending also, a general and very particular account and description of all kinds of vegetables, fossils, shells, minerals, &c.-and a theory of the earth in general. Comprising likewise a genuine history of waters, stones, roots, barks, ... Together with a curious historical account and description of the various classes of animalcules, which are visible only by the assistance of microscopes. ... The whole comprehending all the valuable discoveries and observations of former writers on the subject, and collectors of natural curiosities; namely those of Buffon, Linnaeus, Goldsmith, Hill, Brookes, Kenrick, Ward, Smellie, Albin, Berkinhout, Forster, Thickness, Watson, Banks, Solander, Sir Ashton Lever, Pennant, ... In this work will likewise be given, a particular account of the properties, virtues, and various uses of all the different subjects of natural history, in medicine, mechanics, manufactures, &c. To which will also be added, a copious index of the whole contents of the work. ... Written by a society of gentlemen, ... And published under the immediate inspection of George Henry Millar, Esq. author of that universally approved work, entitled, The new and universal system of geography; or, A complete modern history and description of the whole world:-which now publishing in only eighty numbers, one or two which may be had at a time, price only 6d. each, embellished with fine copper-plates, .... making a large folio volume. Price 2l. 8s. bound in calf and leather.
Society of Gentlemen.Date: [1785]- Books
Anthrax in humans and animals.
World Health Organization.Date: 2008- Books
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A new geographical dictionary. Containing A Full and Accurate Account Of the several Parts of The Known World, As it is Divided into Continents, Islands, Oceans, Seas, Rivers, Lakes, &c. The Situation, Extent, and Boundaries, of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, &c. In Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their Constitutions, Revenues, Forces, Climate, Soil, Produce, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, Cities, Chief Towns, Universities, Curious Structures, Ruins, Antiquities, Mountains, Mines, Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, together with The Religion, Learning, Policy, Manners, and Customs, of the Inhabitants.. To which is prefixed, an introductory Dissertation, Explaining The Figure and Motion of the Earth, the Use of the Globes, and Doctrine of the Sphere, in order to render the Science of Geography easy and intelligible to the meanest Capacity. Illustrated with A New and Accurate Set of Maps of all the Parts of the Known World, making a compleat Atlas; the Dresses of the Inhabitants; and a great Variety of Plans and Perspective Views of the principal Cities, Towns, Harbours, Structures, Ruins, and other Places of Antiquity.
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]-60- Digital Images
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Prostate cancer cells treated with nano sized drug carriers
Dr Khuloud T. Al-Jamal- Books
The influence of the blue ray of the sunlight and of the blue color of the sky, in developing animal and vegetable life; in arresting disease, and in restoring health in acute and chronic disorders to human and domestic animals / as illustrated by the experiments of A. J. Pleasonton and others, between the years 1861 and 1876.
Pleasonton, A. J. (Augustus James), 1808-1894.Date: 1877- Books
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The influence of the blue ray of the sunlight and of the blue color of the sky, in developing animal and vegetable life; in arresting disease, and in restoring health in acute and chronic disorders to human and domestic animals / as illustrated by the experiments of A. J. Pleasonton and others, between the years 1861 and 1876.
Pleasonton, A. J. (Augustus James), 1808-1894.Date: 1877- Books
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The danger of disease from flies and lice.
British Museum (Natural History)Date: 1915- Books
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An address to the public, on a subject of the utmost importance to health : highly necessary to be read by all those who are, or may be afflicted with a certain disease. To which is subjoined, An essay on the heat of the blood, and the motions of animals and vegetables / By J. Elliot.
Elliot, John, 1747-1787.Date: [1780]- Books
Animals as monitors of environmental pollutants : sponsored by Northeastern Research Center for Wildlife Diseases, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut [and] Registry of Comparative Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. [and] Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Date: 1979