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  • Cholera vaccination of the Third Gurkhas in India at the time of the 1893 epidemic. Reproduction, 1894, of a wood engraving.
  • Cholera vaccination of the Third Gurkhas in India at the time of the 1893 epidemic. Reproduction, 1894, of a wood engraving.
  • Bombay plague epidemic, 1896-1897: plague hospital, with stretcher carriers and staff standing outside the buildings. Photograph by Clifton & Co.
  • Egyptian people boarding boats on the Nile during a cholera epidemic. Coloured wood engraving by W.J.Palmer after C. Loye.
  • John Bull defending Britain against the invasion of cholera; comparing the Reform Bill to the cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient, after recovery. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a child of the Beard family, as a convalescent smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • John Bull defending Britain against the invasion of cholera; comparing the Reform Bill to the cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • Rules for the successful treatment and prevention of the influenza; the prevailing epidemic / By the first editor and originator of The Doctor.
  • 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 man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Elsie Clutterbuck (right), a smallpox patient, with another patient (a boy) and a nurse. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Watercolour, c. 1832.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mary Wicklin, aged 4 years, as a smallpox patient, a few days before her death. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Medical officers watching the arrival of a train at Sion railway station, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
  • A pink heart dreaming of love, faithfulness, and health in the face of epidemic illness from AIDS among gay men. Colour lithograph after M. Dubnický, 1991.
  • A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 / [William Harty] [Appendix].