Epidemics Collection

Protective Dress
Protective dress worn by French doctors attending plague victims in Marseille and elsewhere

Hippocrates Saves Athens
By his sensible precautions, the Greek physician Hippocrates saves the people of Athens from the worst effects of the plague which threatens them

LA Peste at Marseille
Scene showing the streets of Marseille strewn with plague victims, some being carted away in carts : drawing made on the spot in 1720

London First Sewage System Fleet Streets Street
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PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665
Bodies are brought out of the city in carts and buried in pits dug for the purpose during the Great Plague of London Date: 1665

PLAGUE CHILD SAVED 1665
A child is saved from a plague-stricken house in London. Date: 1665

PESTILENCE/BIBLICAL ERA
Illustration showing those afflicted with pestilence of biblical era, Israel

CHOLERA/USA/1893
"A Prophetic Picture": the World's Fair will be closed by the Cholera Date: 1893

Victims of the Black Death plague in 1349
Victims of the Black Death Date: 1349

Dance of Death, Great Plague of London
A Dance of Death depiction at St Paul's Cathedral, during the Great Plague of London. Date: 1665

Great Plague of London of 1665
Blaize, an apothecary, tests medicines to try and cure the plague Date: 1665

VICTIM OF CHOLERA / 1883
Victim of cholera Date: 1883

CHOLERA / 1892 / ASTRAKHAN
In the belief that doctors cause cholera, and that only God can cure it, the populace of Astrakhan riot. Date: 1892

BUBONIC PLAGUE
Desgenettes, chief medical officer with Napoleons Egyptian expedition, inoculates himself with bubonic plague to prove it can be successfully treated Date: 1799

Cholera Victim
A cholera victim

Joshua Brookes
JOSHUA BROOKES anatomist, Fellow of the Royal Society, proposed reforms to combat cholera epidemics Date: 1761 - 1833

French Cholera victim
A horrified crowd gathers round to see a cholera victim in France Date: 1832

A-Tich-oo! Influenza in 1918
Influenza personified in the shape of a rather monstrous being tapping an unsuspecting chap on the head and announcing, Good evening! I m the new influenza. Date: 1918

Plague in China 1911
Stacking coffins containing victims of bubonic plague, preparatory to burning, at Tientsin, China. 1911

Cigarette cholera cure
An advertisement for Ogdens Otto de Rose cigarettes, marketed here as a cure for cholera, following an important discovery by one Doctor Tassinari

Plague in China 1911 2
Burning coffins containing victims of bubonic plague, at Tientsin, China. 1911

Quarantine Precautions
passengers washing their clothes on board the royal Mail companys steamer Neva, off Buenos Aires, by order of the health officer

Cholera in Russia / 1909
Russian authorities destroy contaminated peasant hovels in the hope of preventing the spread of cholera

Cholera Victim 1832
A cholera victim at the temporary hospital de la reserve Grenier a l Abondance, Paris, is cheered if not cured by a visit by la comtesse de L.... M

Plague in Manchuria / 1911
The Plague scours over the Manchurians, with his scythe, dressed in a deep red robe

Gregorius Stops Plague
Gregorius I, pope and saint, orders a day of public prayer against the prevailing plague, and miraculously the plague is driven away - apparently carried off by angels

Ghurkas Prevent Cholera
A battalion of Ghurka soldiers en route to Burma, offering sacrifices to drive away cholera

Cholera Poster / 1866
Board of Works, for the Limehouse District issue a poster warning about the effects of cholera

Cholera / Quarantine / 1884
Quarantine at Marseilles: officers of the ships in detentions being visited by their wives and children

Cholera / Disinfection
Disinfecting travellers on the Serbia - Hungary border

Luther & Plague Victims
Martin Luther tends victims of the Plague

Disinfecting a home - 2
DISINFECTING A HOME Infected bedlinen is fumigated in a horse-drawn portable Stove to destroy germs of tuberculosis or cholera

Disinfecting a home - 1
DISINFECTING A HOME Workers for the Paris prefecture disinfect a home where tuberculosis or cholera have occurred

Averting Cholera
The populace of Napoli, Italy, seek to avert the cholera plague by a religious procession

Bubonic Plague, Portugal
When Portugal is struck by an epidemic of bubonic plague, the population burn infected homes in hope of destroying the source of the trouble

Tent Hospital / Flu Epidem
An exterior view of a tent- hospital. This one is in the gardens of the Beaujon Hospital, although many more were used to cope with all the flu patients

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