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Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Louis Sambon, Lecturer at the London School of Tropical Medicine. Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

Solidified wine 2,000 years old : glimpses of life in the ancient city of Pompeii. Dr. Louis Sambon on wines and foods: an interesting interview / by J.V. Morton.

A.J.E. Terzi and L.W. Sambon : early Italian influences on Patrick Manson's 'Tropical medicine', entomology, and the art of entomological illustration in London / Lise Wilkinson.

Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Elephantiasis in the right leg of an inhabitant of the West Indies. Photograph.

A man with yaws: head and neck. Photograph by L.W. Sambon.

The sleep of death.

The elucidation of sleeping sickness / by Dr. Louis Sambon.

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Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Images from the collections

Images by Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Images featuring Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Works from the collections

The sleep of death.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

The elucidation of sleeping sickness / by Dr. Louis Sambon.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Frequent collaborators

Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Images from the collections

Images by Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Images featuring Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.

Works from the collections

The sleep of death.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

The elucidation of sleeping sickness / by Dr. Louis Sambon.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Frequent collaborators

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