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The results of the influenza epidemic of 1891-92, as seen in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Gillespie, Alexander Lockhart, 1865-1904.

Date: [1892?]

On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment

Barker, Walter Goodyer.

Date: 1866

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

Date: 1814

The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.

Serre, Michel, 1658-1733.

Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion in a letter, addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow

Millar, Richard.

Date: 1818

An account of the epidemic fever of 1847-48, more especially as deduced from the statistical records of the extra accommodation of the Royal Infirmary : with a suggestion and plan for improved and more economical temporary erections for future occasions

Paterson, Robert, 1814-1889.

Date: [1848?]

Cursory remarks on the present epidemick [of cholera]

Kendrick, James, 1771-1847.

Date: 1832

Alexandria (Rue Ibrahimich), Egypt: a city street with goats, during a typhus epidemic. Photograph, 1915/1925 (?).

Date: 1915-1925

Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Tarter, Albert Lloyd, 1913-1988.

Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

Science Museum, London

Official report on the medical topography and climate of Calcutta : with brief notices of its prevalent diseases, endemic and epidemic

Martin, James Ranald, 1796-1874.

Date: 1839

Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ...

Wall, Martin, 1747-1824.

Date: 1786

On the effects of volcanic action in the production of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation, and in the production of hurricanes and abnormal atmospheric vicissitudes

Johnston-Lavis, H. J. 1856-1914.

Date: 1914

Observations on epidemic disorders, with remarks on nervous and malignant fevers.

Sims, James, 1741-1820.

Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

The laws and progress of the epidemic cholera, illustrated by facts and observations

Hancock, Thomas, 1783-1849.

Date: 1832

An epidemic of follicular conjunctivitis in a Liverpool school

Grossmann, Klaus.

Date: [1902?]

Facts and observations on the sanitory state of Glasgow during the last year : with statistical tables of the late epidemic, shewing the connection existing between poverty, disease, and crime

Perry, Robert, 1783-1848.

Date: 1844

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.

Commercial. No. 39 (1883). Further correspondence respecting the cholera epidemic in Egypt : 1883 [In continuation of "Commercial no. 34 (1883)".].

Cookson, Charles A.

Date: 1883

Reports and papers on cholera in England in 1893

Great Britain. Local Government Board.

Date: 1894

A sanitary enquiry into the probable causes of yearly epidemics in England, as observed at Leicester

Weaver, Richard.

Date: 1871

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: two convalescent children. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

H.C.F., of Gloucester, fl. between 1896 and 1901.

Date: [1896]

Air and Epidemic Diseases: Final page of index

A steam train transporting its passengers and plague through countryside and towns. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Tarter, Albert Lloyd, 1913-1988.

Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]

Epidemics considered with relation to their common nature, and to climate and civilization : in two lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, November 1855

Smith, Southwood, 1788-1861.

Date: 1856

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