Plagues 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

Malaria Epidemic 1901
MALARIA Fighting malaria in Italy

Cau d Lad of Hylton
A goblin (the Cau d Lad of Hylton, Co. Durham) plagues a house until they give him warm clothes. When they do he dances for delight & troubles them no more

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

Daeth of The First Born - Egypt Plagues

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

BIBLE/PLAGUE/FIRST BORN
Death of the first born. Date: OT

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

7 Last Plagues. Apocalypse of Angers
BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The seven last plagues and the harps of God. 1375 - 1382. The upper Angels with the golden vials (bowls) filled with the Wrath of God

Cholera Victim
A cholera victim

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

Cartoon, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles; or, The British Hero cleansing the Mouth of the Nile, by James Gillray

Beatus aemilianensis, 10th c The seven plagues
Beatus aemilianensis. 2. Ms. Vit. 14-1. Folio 130r. Angels with the seven plagues and musicians with fiddles or violas or arc. Codex manuscript with the Commentary on the Apocalypse of St

Plague scientist in China
Western doctor or scientist in China during the bubonic plague outbreak; died during research work. Date: 1911

Bubonic plague in China
Bubonic plague outbreak in China, in Tientsin (now Tianjin): people wrapped up to try to protect themselves from the plague, possibly carrying out some sort of fumigation procedure. Date: 1911

Biblical Plagues of hail and frogs - Egypt. circa late 19th century

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

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

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 of Frogs
The plague of frogs

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

Street Disinfecting
Public disinfectors with their cart : this is the authorities response to cholera and other plagues

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

Pestilence in Egypt
The people of Egypt - and their livestock - are destrpyed by a divine pestilence

Bible / Plague / Egypt / Frogs
The plague of frogs

The Plague of Hail
God told Moses to tell Pharaoh that he would send a plague of hail, thunder and lightning which would destroy everything in the fields which he did

Plague of Murrain
The plague of the CATTLE MURRAIN

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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