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  • The male and female signs entwined with two arrows at the centre labelled 'SIDA' within a wavy grey border; a leaflet warning about the AIDS epidemic by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.
  • The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • A T-cell infected with HIV within a poster by the New Scientist describing the science of AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Groups of men on a street spraying jets of water into plague infected houses, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by F. Aquila after Raphael after Virgil.
  • Leiden pest house, bird's-eye view. Etching.
  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague of 1720. Etching by J. Rigaud after M. Serre.
  • Scientists investigating the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.
  • The plague in Leiden in 1574: a doctor examines a urine flask surrounded by the ill, the dying and the dead. Line engraving.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour.
  • Men, women, and children praying at a shrine by the roadside during the 1873 cholera epidemic in Poland. Wood engraving by H. Woods, 1873.
  • A town in Manchuria just before the arrival of the plague and the Japanese invasion of 1931. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo. Lithograph by G. Castagnola.
  • An American soldier lying wounded; analogous to the sufferings of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A victim of the plague in Paris. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • American soldiers warlike in an Eastern land; analogous to the invasion of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • Ludwig Georg von Gottes Gnaden Marggraff zu Baaden und Hochberg ... : Demnach den letzt fürgewester Engen Grenz Versammlung in Ulm Occasione der in dem Bannat Temesvvar, Fürstenhum Siebengebürgen / und anderen Orthen im Königreich Hungarn / sich unter den Menschen hervorgethaner gefährlichen Seuche halber nachstehender Schluss abgefast worden : Welchergestalten sich vor einiger Zeit in dem Bannat Temesvvar, nicht weniger in dem Fürstenhum Siebengebürgen und andernandern Orten in dem Königreich Hungarn eine gefährliche Seuche unter denen Menschen hiervor gethan ... den allen Städten / flechen und Dörffern zu publiciren / und an denen Rath-häusern oder anderen gewöhnlichen Orten offentlich zu affigeren. Signatum in Ulm/ den 10. Novembr. 1738 / Der Fürsten und Stände des löbl. Schwäblichen Grenzes den gegenwärtig versammleten Engern Convent anwesende Räthe / Bottschaffter und Gesandte. (L.S.) ... Signatum Rastadt den 22ten Novembris 1738. Louis W. zu Baaden. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Marchionis proprium. Schmid de Wellenburg.