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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.

Yellow fever in Buenos Aires, 1871. Oil painting by Juan Manuel Blanes.

A girl suffering from yellow fever. Watercolour.

Medical Research Institute, Accra: disinfection with a spray from a tank. Photograph, 1928.

Medical Research Institute, Accra: medical researchers working on yellow fever. Photograph, 1928.

Four kidney sections showing the kidney affected by yellow fever. Photograph, 1920/1950 (?).

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

Nuevos estudios para determinar las causas, la naturaleza, y el tratamiento de la fiebre amarilla / por Juan Copello.

A letter to the officers of the Army under orders for, or that may hereafter be sent, to the West Indies, on the means of preserving health, and preventing that fatal disease the Yellow Fever / by Stewart Henderson.

Yellow fever: its nature, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis, and quarantine regulations relating thereto / by Officers of the US Marine-Hospital Service, together with an abstraction of the report of the medical officers detailed as a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever.

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Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

Nuevos estudios para determinar las causas, la naturaleza, y el tratamiento de la fiebre amarilla / por Juan Copello.

Medical Research Institute, Accra: medical researchers working on yellow fever. Photograph, 1928.

A letter to the officers of the Army under orders for, or that may hereafter be sent, to the West Indies, on the means of preserving health, and preventing that fatal disease the Yellow Fever / by Stewart Henderson.

Yellow fever: its nature, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis, and quarantine regulations relating thereto / by Officers of the US Marine-Hospital Service, together with an abstraction of the report of the medical officers detailed as a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever.