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Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.

Saint Roch and an angel. Woodcut, c. 1518.

Dissertation sur les bubons siphilitiques ou vénériens : considérés dans leur simplicité et dans leurs diverses complications / par César-Victor Cotton.

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Buboes

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Saint Roch and an angel. Woodcut, c. 1518.

Dissertation sur les bubons siphilitiques ou vénériens : considérés dans leur simplicité et dans leurs diverses complications / par César-Victor Cotton.

Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.