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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.

Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par MM. Pariset et Mazet ... et rédigées par M. Pariset.

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

Walter Reed and yellow fever / by Howard A. Kelly.

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

A blue cross containing stylised representations of situations in which the Aedes aegypti mosquito can flourish: discarded rubbish, a bin, water, a house etc. , and a representation of the mosquito itself. Colour lithograph, ca. 1982.

Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekulter : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit / von E. Haagen und M. Theiler.

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.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Beauperthuy / Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

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

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Yellow Fever

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Images about Yellow Fever

Works from the collections

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekulter : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit / von E. Haagen und M. Theiler.

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.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Beauperthuy / Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

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

Yellow Fever

Images from the collections

Images about Yellow Fever

Works from the collections

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekulter : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit / von E. Haagen und M. Theiler.

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.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

Beauperthuy / Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

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

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