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A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
Reference: 25031i
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Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675009i
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The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.
Thomas StothardReference: 43106i
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A penis rising in the form of a yellow serpent with a pronged tongue daubed on a rough red wall bearing the graffiti "AIDS, the killing bit of love"; representing the danger of sexual transmission of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Anthon Beeke, 1993.
Anthon BeekeDate: 1993Reference: 672741i
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Nine green and red diagrams with Albanian lettering on how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675007i
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Cétonia pencils for use against mosquito bites: advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1912.
Date: [1912?]Reference: 662238i
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An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Bengali version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
Date: Mar [19]93Reference: 677561i
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Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677606i
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Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677467i
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Nine green and red diagrams with Portuguese lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675010i
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Nine green and red diagrams with English lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675012i
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A large insect with a message indicating that AIDS is not transmitted through bug bites; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667399i
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Nine green and red diagrams with Croatian lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675013i
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Bitten : true medical stories of bites and stings / Pamela Nagami.
Nagami, PamelaDate: 2005
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Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
Frédéric-Auguste LaguillermieDate: 1800-1899Reference: 5765i
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An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
Date: Mar [19]93Reference: 677559i
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The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.
Thomas StothardReference: 6520i
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Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16335i
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A man volunteering to act as a subject in a medical experiment, unaware that it involves being stung by a gigantic and angry wasp. Pen and ink drawing by Patrick Wright, ca. 1992.
Wright, Patrick.Date: [1992?]Reference: 38482i
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An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
Date: Mar [19]93Reference: 677560i
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Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16336i
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Two male hands shake with the message 'Menschlich Sein' [human] with a list of ways in which AIDS is not transmitted; a message by the Minister for Health and Social Affairs. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674286i
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Nine green and red diagrams with Turkish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675015i
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How AIDS can and cannot be transmitted; an advertisement by AIDS-Hilfe Salzburg. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675094i