Bacterial infection of the small intestine

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A treatise on asiatic cholera / edited and prepared by Edmund Charles Wendt ; in association with John C. Peters [and others].

A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832.

Dr. Worthington's "Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine" : the great animal puzzle.

An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.

Boyer. : Eau des carmes : 16, Mark Lane London : beware of conterfeits.

Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.

Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne : the original and only genuine.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Gaetano, Saint Roch, Saint Martha, and Saint Januarius with scenes from a cholera epidemic below. Lithograph by F. Apicella, ca. 1884.

A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.

Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.

Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.

M0014657: Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo

Sui buoni effetti del cloro usato internamente nella cura dei colerosi. Lettera del Dottor Giacinto Namias ... al Dottor Domenico Thiene.

1837 Scene del cholera di Napoli.

Du cholera-morbus, et des moyens de s'en préserver : ouvrage spécialement destiné aux gens du monde, et contenant tout ce qu'il est essentiel de connaître pour se soustraire à cette maladie / par Félix Rollet.

The western cholera trail : studies in the urban response to epidemic disease in the trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1850 / by Mitchel Philip Roth.

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Cholera

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M0014657: Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo

Sui buoni effetti del cloro usato internamente nella cura dei colerosi. Lettera del Dottor Giacinto Namias ... al Dottor Domenico Thiene.

1837 Scene del cholera di Napoli.

Du cholera-morbus, et des moyens de s'en préserver : ouvrage spécialement destiné aux gens du monde, et contenant tout ce qu'il est essentiel de connaître pour se soustraire à cette maladie / par Félix Rollet.

The western cholera trail : studies in the urban response to epidemic disease in the trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1850 / by Mitchel Philip Roth.

Cholera

Images from the collections

Images referencing Cholera

Works from the collections

M0014657: Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo

Sui buoni effetti del cloro usato internamente nella cura dei colerosi. Lettera del Dottor Giacinto Namias ... al Dottor Domenico Thiene.

1837 Scene del cholera di Napoli.

Du cholera-morbus, et des moyens de s'en préserver : ouvrage spécialement destiné aux gens du monde, et contenant tout ce qu'il est essentiel de connaître pour se soustraire à cette maladie / par Félix Rollet.

The western cholera trail : studies in the urban response to epidemic disease in the trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1850 / by Mitchel Philip Roth.

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