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People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.

Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.

Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.

Symptoms of diarrhoea and dysentry in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.

A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).

Saint Maternus. Engraving (?) and letterpress.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria ... pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Jobson.

Essai sur la dysenterie aiguë : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 3 août 1836 / par Élicio Loreilhe.

Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)

Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D.

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Dissertatio medica inauguralis de dysenteria ... pro gradu doctoris ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Jobson.

Essai sur la dysenterie aiguë : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 3 août 1836 / par Élicio Loreilhe.

Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)

Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D.

A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).