Disease Collection

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, 1758-59. Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, 1758-59

Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849. Comment on the London water supply during the reappearance of cholera in 1848 and 1849

Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810

The Healing of Saint Roch, late 15th century. Artist: German Master
The Healing of Saint Roch, late 15th century. German painting of the Swabian School. Legend holds that a dog found St Roch suffering from the plague, and summoned help

Happy Hampstead!, 1875. Artist: Joseph Swain
Happy Hampstead!, 1875. A suburban family is shown enjoying a day out in the park. Behind them lurk the shrouded and menacing figures of Smallpox and Fever

Edward Jenner, late 18th-early 19th century, (c1833). Creator: Edward Scriven
Edward Jenner, late 18th-early 19th century, (c1833). Portrait of English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Jenner practiced as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire

Saint Roch as Patron of Plague Victims, 1623. Creator: Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Saint Roch as Patron of Plague Victims, 1623.

Quarantined on Hoffman Isl'd, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Quarantined on Hoffman Isl'd, between c1910 and c1915.

Quarantined children of cholera victim, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Quarantined children of cholera victim, between c1910 and c1915.

Plague Ship, which carries suspects to Hoffman Island, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Plague Ship, which carries suspects to Hoffman Island, between c1910 and c1915 Hoffman Island, New York City, where immigrants with infectious diseases were held in quarantine before arriving at

Peregrine Rescuing Emilia From The Inn Fire, c1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Peregrine Rescuing Emilia From The Inn Fire, c1786. "From the noticeboard we find the Dover, Deal, Margate and Canterbury Coaches are advertised to set out from the caravansary in question

Patients & nurses "Sea Breeze Jr.", between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Patients & nurses "Sea Breeze Jr.", between c1910 and c1915. Shows "Junior Sea Breeze" a summer hospital for babies run by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

Japan - Injecting pest bacillus into rats, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Japan - Injecting pest bacillus into rats, between c1915 and c1920.

Irving Bertman presents flowers to Helen Keller, Flower Show, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Irving Bertman presents flowers to Helen Keller, Flower Show, 1913. Shows Helen Keller (1880-1968) with her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936)

Utica - Sherman funeral, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Utica - Sherman funeral, 1912. Shows funeral on November 2, 1912 for James Schoolcraft Sherman (1855-1912), Vice President under William Howard Taft, Utica, New York.

The Cholera at Malta: sanitary encampment of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment on the Floriana, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Cholera at Malta: sanitary encampment of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment on the Floriana, 1865. 'In the Number of our Journal for the 23rd of September we gave an Illustration of

Inspection of foreign cattle at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Inspection of foreign cattle at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, [Copenhagen-fields, London], 1865. 'The importance of exercising a strict supervision over the sanitary state of these cattle...has

Statue of Dr. Jenner, lately erected at Boulogne, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Statue of Dr. Jenner, lately erected at Boulogne, 1865. 'The beneficent discovery of vaccination to prevent smallpox is appreciated so highly by the physicians and scientific men of France

The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Captain Cecil Lyon. 'This regiment, under the command of Major H

"The Foster Sisters", by John Bostock, in the Manchester Exhibition, 1865. Creator: W Thomas
"The Foster Sisters", by John Bostock, in the Manchester Exhibition, 1865. Engraving of a painting. 'What a contrast there is between these two maidens, though of the same age

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

Vaccinating Germans for Cholera, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Vaccinating Germans for Cholera, between 1914 and c1915

Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India: Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, planting the first tree in a new plantation, 1862. Mr

A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. A walk through Calcutta about midnight reveals to the European stranger many curious sights

A young married couple, participants in the To Fight Consumption campaign, 1913. Creator: Unknown
A young married couple, participants in the To Fight Consumption campaign, 1913. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The late M. Ricard, French Minister of the Interior, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The late M. Ricard, French Minister of the Interior, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by M. Pierre Petit, of the Place Cadet

AI IMAGE - A plague doctor, 17th century, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - A plague doctor, 17th century, (2023). Physician who treated victims of bubonic plague, wearing an ankle-length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask

AI IMAGE - A plague doctor, 17th century, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - A plague doctor, 17th century, (2023). Physician who treated victims of bubonic plague, wearing an ankle-length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Stephen Hawking, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Stephen Hawking, 2000s, (2023). Professor Hawking (1942-2018) was a British theoretical physicist, mathematician, cosmologist and author

Toshima Tomiyo Who Stayed with Her Leper Husband, Tomozo, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Toshima Tomiyo Who Stayed with Her Leper Husband, Tomozo, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 566

Appuyez fort, ça fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse - (L'enfant) Oh! la...oh!...la la la...la...C'est ca appuyez toujours il n'y a rien de meilleur

The Morbetto, between circa 1515 and circa 1516. Creator: Marcantonio Raimondi
The Morbetto, between circa 1515 and circa 1516

Christ Healing Lepers, between 1540 and 1563. Creator: Andrea Schiavone
Christ Healing Lepers, between 1540 and 1563

An Italian Home Near Hull House, 1910, Printed 1920s. Creator: Lewis Wickes Hine
An Italian Home Near Hull House, 1910, Printed 1920s. Series: Hull House, Chicago

Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Adirondack Mountains, c1902. Creator: William H. Jackson
Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Adirondack Mountains, c1902

Regents and Regentesses of the Lepers Asylum, Amsterdam, 1834-35, 1834-1835. Creator: Jan Adam Kruseman
Regents and Regentesses of the Lepers Asylum, Amsterdam, 1834-35, 1834-1835

Portrait of the Three Patrons of the Leprozenhuis, Amsterdam, c.1668-c.1671. Creator: Ferdinand Bol
Portrait of the Three Patrons of the Leprozenhuis, Amsterdam, c.1668-c.1671. Other Title(s): Three Regentesses of the Lepers Asylum in Amsterdam, 1668

The seventh plague in Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Anon
The seventh plague in Egypt, 1755-1779

The sixth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Anon
The sixth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779

The tenth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Anon
The tenth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779

The ninth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Monogrammist BF
The ninth plague in Egypt, 1755-1779

The first plague of Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Monogrammist BF
The first plague of Egypt, 1755-1779

The third plague of Egypt, 1755-1779. Creator: Anon
The third plague of Egypt, 1755-1779

Illuminations in the Largo Mercatello, Naples, on the Birth of a Prince, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Illuminations in the Largo Mercatello, Naples, on the Birth of a Prince, 1857. View of...the spontaneous rejoicings of the Neapolitan people...[following the announcement of]...the most happy

View of the town hall and the harbor in Marseille with victims struck by the plague... 1720-1799. Creator: Anon
View of the town hall and the harbor in Marseille with victims struck by the plague in 1720, 1720-1799

Jesus heals ten lepers, 1742-1801. Creator: Anon
Jesus heals ten lepers, 1742-1801

Four Regents and the ‘House Father of the Amsterdam Lepers Asylum, 1624. Creator: Werner Jacobsz. van den Valckert
Four Regents and the House Father of the Amsterdam Lepers Asylum, 1624

The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

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