Specific contagious and frequently fatal human disease caused by Yersinia pestis

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The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.

Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.

Christi eiusque Matris Pietate servata : provisores salutis clodiae : si parte di questa città, per la iddio gratia, libera d'ogni mal contagioso gl'infrascritti per andar ... / Ioan. Bapt. Vianellus Not. Dep.

Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized : an historical account of the dissection of a pestilential body by the author. Together with the author's apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae.

Der schwarze Tod : eine Chronik der Pest 1348-1720, unter Benutzung zeitgenössischer Quellen / bearbeited von Johannes Nohl. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.

Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.

Sospensione di commercio con tutta la Germania : essendo pervenuto all'Illustrissimo Magistrato della Sanità di questa città il bando, publicato da SS. Proveditori alla Sanità di Verona, della Germania da suoi confini in sù ... / Signori Presidenti del Magistrato ... Francesco Raimondi [and others].

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

The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

People living in quarantine, during a plague epidemic in Mandalay. Photograph attributed to Criouleansky & Marshall, 1906.

Burying the dead during the plague of 1665. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

La peste / Giulia Calvi.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

Billard, Michael

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Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

La peste / Giulia Calvi.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

Billard, Michael

Plague

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Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

La peste / Giulia Calvi.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

Billard, Michael

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