Disease Collection (page 7)

Charles II and his court at the palace during the Plague of London, c1665-1666 (1890). From left to right: Lady Castlemaine, Charles II and Queen Catherine, attended by her Spanish duennas

Venice: The Feast Day of Saint Roch, 1735, (1938). Artist: Canaletto
Venice: The Feast Day of Saint Roch, 1735. Also known as Scuola Di San Rocco. The feast commemorated the end of the terrible plague of 1576. After an original work after Canaletto (1697-1768)

Lieutenant-General Felix Maximilien Eugene Wielemans (1863-1917), Chief of Staff, 1917
Lieutenant-General Felix Maximilien Eugene Wielemans (1863-1917), Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army during the World War I, 1917

Montserrate Door, (1836), 1920s
The Door of Montserrate was given this name during the plague when it was the door to a hermitage. The Virgin of Montserrate was founded in 1695, destroyed in 1836 and rebuilt in 1844

William Gorgas, (1854-1920), 1920s
Dr William Gorgas, born in Mobila in 1854 and was head of health service in Cuba during the government of Wood. The measures taken against mosquitoes gave a remarkable outcome; in seven months

Edward Jenners thatched hut, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 20th century. Artist:s Pead
Edward Jenners thatched hut, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 20th century. The hut where Jenner administered smallpox vaccinations to the poor free of charge

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist, 19th century. Portrait of Pasteur (1822-1895), pioneering scientist who founded the science of microbiology, proved the germ theory of disease

Pierre Paul Emile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, 1928. Roux (1853-1933) was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, 1893. Pasteur (1822-1895), was a pioneering scientist who founded the science of microbiology, proved the germ theory of disease

Houses at Eyam, where the Great Plague broke out, Derbyshire, 1924-1926. Artist: York & Son
Houses at Eyam, where the Great Plague broke out, Derbyshire, 1924-1926. Eyam is famous as the village that isolated itself from the outside world when a case of plague occurred in 1665 in order to

The Great Plague of 1665 (c1902). The Enthusiast Denouncing London. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume III (c1902)

House-to-house visitation during the plague in Bombay, India, 1898. Artist: Melton Prior
House-to-house visitation during the plague in Bombay, India, 1898. The president of the local committee and an indian doctor on their daily round in the native quarter

Diseases of dogs and their cures, 14th century (1849). A 19th century version of an original 15th century illustration in a manuscript of Gaston Phoebus

Venereal Disease, 1496 (1906). Artist: Albrecht Durer
Venereal Disease, 1496 (1906). From Durer Des Meisters Gemalde Kupferstiche und Holzschnitte in 471 Abbildungen [Stuttgart und Leipzig, Deutsch Verlags-Ansalt, 1906]

Grave of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, near Perth, 1840. Artist: C J Smith
Grave of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, near Perth, 1840. According to a ballad, in 1666 Betsy and Mary built themselves a bower to avoid catching the plague

Plague cottages, Eyam, Derbyshire, 20th century. Eyam is famous as the village that isolated itself from the outside world when a case of plague occurred in 1665 in order to try to stop the infection

Alphonse Laveran, French physician, 1917. In 1880 Laveran (1845-1922) made the discovery that malaria were caused by protozoa

Death of Henry V, 1422 (1790). Artist: Bromley
Death of King Henry V of England, 1422 (1790). The son of Henry IV, Henry (1387-1422) became king in 1413. He is popularly regarded as one of Englands greatest kings

Christmas charity, interior of a hospital in the east, 1855. Artist: George Measom
Christmas charity, interior of a hospital in the east, 1855. Scene in a hospital during the Crimean War. Some 250, 000 soldiers died during the conflict, many of them from disease

Crowd at the Mansion House reading the bulletins of the Prince of Waless illness, 1871 (1900). In 1871 the future King Edward VII was taken ill with typhoid, the disease that killed his father

Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, c1534, (1902). Portrait of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519-1536) illegitimate son of King Henry VIII and his young mistress, Elizabeth Blount

Sterne and Death. 1768. Artist: Thomas Patch
Sterne and Death. 1768. Portrait of Irish-born author and clergyman Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) who is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Comforts of Bath: The Games, or Assembly with Card Players, 1798. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Comforts of Bath: The Games, or Assembly with Card Players, 1798. The smart set enjoying the season at Bath, home of the famous Roman baths and Pump Room

Gods Providence House, Chester, c1920s. During an outbreak of the plague during the 17th century, it is said that not a house in the city was spared except for this one in Watergate Street

Nearly worried to death by the Greatest Plague of Life, c1840s. Artist: George Cruikshank
Nearly worried to death by the Greatest Plague of Life, c1840s. Cartoon sketch: Adventures of a lady in search of a good servant/by one who has been almost worried to death

The Sick Goose and the Council of Health, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Sick Goose and the Council of Health, 19th century. Satire on quack doctors and their patent medicines

John Keats, English poet, 19th century. Portrait of Keats (1795-1821), one of the pricipal members of the English Romantic movement

Journal of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1618. Artist: Sir Walter Raleigh
Journal of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1618. Journal of his second voyage to Guiana, extending from 19th August 1617, when he sailed from Cork, to 13th February 1618

The Great Plague of 1665, (c1850). The London plague of 1665 was also known as The Black Death. Colour plate from Pictures of English History, George Routledge & Sons, (London, New York, c1850)

The plague: flight to the country, 1630, (1910). A 19th-century depicition of the transition stage of costume: the doublet reaching to mid-thigh, sometimes flared from the hips down

Livingstone Weak From Fever Escorted to Shintes Town, 19th century. David Livingstone (1813-1873) arrived in Africa in 1840 at the age of 27 as a missionary and physician

Edward Jenner, English country doctor, 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
Edward Jenner, English country doctor, 19th century. Jenner (1749-1823) is famous for his discovery of the smallpox vaccine

A Bawd on Her Last Legs, 1792. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
A Bawd on Her Last Legs, 1792. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Advertising poster for Pastilles Poncelet, a cold and bronchitis remedy, 1896. Artist: Jules Cheret
Advertising poster for Pastilles Poncelet, a cold and bronchitis remedy, 1896. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Artist: Nikolai Gerardov
Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Death of Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary leader, 27th April 1803. Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution

Destroying the grasshopper, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 4th August 1901

Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Stricken of Jaffa, 11th March 1799, 19th century

Vaccination against smallpox, Paris, 1894. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Vaccination against smallpox, Paris, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 29th January 1894

Cholera in Russia, the troubles in Astrakhan, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Cholera in Russia, the troubles in Astrakhan, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 6th August 1892

The locust plague, Algeria, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The locust plague, Algeria, 1891. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 4th July 1891

Scene from the introduction to The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, (1833). Artist: Thomas Stothard
Scene from the introduction to The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, (1833). In Boccaccios (1313-1375) The Decameron, a group of friends, who have escaped the plague in Florence

Surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Head surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Eye surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Breast surgery, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. From a private collection

Phorbas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Phorbas, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Carrying the Dead, c1842-1896. Artist: Evariste Vital Luminais
Carrying the Dead, c1842-1896. Located in the collection at, Hotel de Ville, Lyon

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