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  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • AIDS for AIDS, a useful information sheet for physicians with numerous facts and figures by the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Goverment of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Fourteen illustrated instructions in Basque on the necessity of taking precautions when handling blood or fluids contaminated with blood to avoid transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and other related infections; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A fact sheet about AIDS and HIV to mark 1st December 1991, World AIDS Day by the World Health Organization Global Program to Fight AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Ten people with leprosy (with warning clappers) approach Christ the healer. Etching.
  • Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665: : with precautionary directions against the like contagion. / By Nath. Hodges, M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the city all that time. To which is added, An essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France, and the most probable means to prevent its spreading here. By John Quincy, M. D.
  • An enlarged view of the HIV virus with a list of ten points about how the virus is transmitted. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Christ cures ten people with leprosy. Woodcut.
  • Christ healing a man of leprosy. Woodcut, 1571, after Jost Amman.
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