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Two groups of people on opposite sides of a railway line in Bombay awaiting the arrival of a plague patient by train. Photograph, 1896/1897.
Date: 1896Reference: 37004i
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The plague prophylactic : what it is, how it is prepared, and what its uses are. Being the substance of a lecture delivered under the auspices of the Bombay Sanitary Association, in the hall of the Health Section of the Bombay Industrial and Agricultural exhibition on the evening of 20th December 1904 / by W. B. Bannerman.
Bannerman, W. B.Date: 1905
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M0000824: Model wearing a Plague Doctor costume
Date: 26 July 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/8/13
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
Martinet, Achille Louis, 1806-1877.Date: 1820Reference: 4542i
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English Medical Notebook, 17th century
Date: 1575-1663Reference: MS.6812
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Rebel physician : Nicholas Culpeper's fight for medical freedom.
Date: 2008
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A death cart in a street in London during the great plague. Engraving by S. Davenport, 1835, after G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 July 1835Reference: 6920i
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Two men with a hose washing a street, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37794i
Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
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De vera ratione curandi bubonis, atque carbunculi pestilentis. De[que] eorundem praecautione commentarius. / Authore Ioan. Baptista Gemma Veneto.
Gemma, Joannes Baptista, approximately 1545-1608.Date: Anno. 1600
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The riddle of the plague survivors.
Date: 2002
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Bericht uber die Thatigkeit der zur Erforschung der Pest im Jahre 1897 nach Indien entsandten Kommission : Untersuchungen über die Lepra. Von Professor Dr. Sticker. Mit 9 Tafeln, etc / rstattet von Dr. Gaffky ... Dr. Sticker ... Dr. Pfeiffer ... Dr. Dieudonné ... Nebst einer Anlage.
Gaffky, Georg Theodor August, 1850-1918.Date: 1899
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Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 3 July 1743Reference: MS.5863/6
Part of: Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
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Bubonic plague : its course and symptoms and means of prevention and treatment, according to the latest scientific discoveries : including notes on cases in Oporto with an appendix specially written by the author for the English edition / by José Verdes Montenegro ; authorised translation by W. Munro.
Munro W.Date: 1900
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M0002005: Reproduction of a watercolour of a physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive costume in Marseille
Date: June 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/79
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813.
Great Britain. General Board of Health.Date: 1854
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The police commissioner on his horse in the centre of a street, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37784i
Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
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Solomon Eagle with coals burning above his head preaching during the plague, 1665. Wood engraving by S. Sly, 1843, after P.F. Poole.
Poole, Paul Falconer, 1807-1879.Date: 1843Reference: 6427i
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Note sur la peste
Pariset, Étienne, 1770-1847Date: 1828Reference: MS.3767
Part of: Pariset, Étienne (1770-1847)
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Two huts, marked with crosses inside circles indicating the number of deaths from plague which occurred there, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37916i
Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
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Two men digging a grave in a Hindu burial ground with a group of men standing behind them, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37581i
Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
Ephemera
Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 2.
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A preservative from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, etc., and for curing such as are infected with it, after the most plain and easy method. Written in the year 1666 / [Thomas Willis].
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.Date: 1721
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The history of plague : as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, etc. detailing important facts, illustrative of the specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adopted for its eradication / by J. D. Tully.
Tully, J. D.Date: 1821
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Disputatio inauguralis medica de peste ... / submittit Johann. Jacob Kuntz.
Kuntz, Johann Jakob, active 1683.Date: 1683
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Household and Medical Recipes
Date: c.1650-c.1750Reference: MS.MSL.2

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Two groups of people on opposite sides of a railway line in Bombay awaiting the arrival of a plague patient by train. Photograph, 1896/1897.

M0000824: Model wearing a Plague Doctor costume

Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.

English Medical Notebook, 17th century

Rebel physician : Nicholas Culpeper's fight for medical freedom.

A death cart in a street in London during the great plague. Engraving by S. Davenport, 1835, after G. Cruikshank.

Two men with a hose washing a street, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

De vera ratione curandi bubonis, atque carbunculi pestilentis. De[que] eorundem praecautione commentarius. / Authore Ioan. Baptista Gemma Veneto.

The riddle of the plague survivors.

Bericht uber die Thatigkeit der zur Erforschung der Pest im Jahre 1897 nach Indien entsandten Kommission : Untersuchungen über die Lepra. Von Professor Dr. Sticker. Mit 9 Tafeln, etc / rstattet von Dr. Gaffky ... Dr. Sticker ... Dr. Pfeiffer ... Dr. Dieudonné ... Nebst einer Anlage.

Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century

M0002005: Reproduction of a watercolour of a physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive costume in Marseille

Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813.

The police commissioner on his horse in the centre of a street, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Solomon Eagle with coals burning above his head preaching during the plague, 1665. Wood engraving by S. Sly, 1843, after P.F. Poole.

Note sur la peste

Two huts, marked with crosses inside circles indicating the number of deaths from plague which occurred there, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Two men digging a grave in a Hindu burial ground with a group of men standing behind them, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 2.

A preservative from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, etc., and for curing such as are infected with it, after the most plain and easy method. Written in the year 1666 / [Thomas Willis].

The history of plague : as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, etc. detailing important facts, illustrative of the specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adopted for its eradication / by J. D. Tully.

Disputatio inauguralis medica de peste ... / submittit Johann. Jacob Kuntz.

Household and Medical Recipes