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A treatise on asiatic cholera / edited and prepared by Edmund Charles Wendt ; in association with John C. Peters [and others].

A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832.

An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.

Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Gaetano, Saint Roch, Saint Martha, and Saint Januarius with scenes from a cholera epidemic below. Lithograph by F. Apicella, ca. 1884.

Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.

Cholera Hospital, Oxford: near the Oxford Canals. Line engraving by J. Fisher after T. Taylor junior.

A man with cholera buried prematurely. Photograph after painting by A. J. Wiertz.

London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.

A man vomiting and with diarrhoea owing to infected water; and four scenes related to the results of water infection. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).

Sui buoni effetti del cloro usato internamente nella cura dei colerosi. Lettera del Dottor Giacinto Namias ... al Dottor Domenico Thiene.

Du cholera-morbus, et des moyens de s'en préserver : ouvrage spécialement destiné aux gens du monde, et contenant tout ce qu'il est essentiel de connaître pour se soustraire à cette maladie / par Félix Rollet.

Cases of cholera collected at Paris : in the month of April, 1832, in the wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital La Pitié / by James Jackson, Jr.

Choleragift und Pettenkofer : als Beitrag zum heutigen Stand der Cholerafrage / von Fr. Osterlen.

The pathology and treatment of Asiatic cholera, so called / by A.L. Cox.

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Sui buoni effetti del cloro usato internamente nella cura dei colerosi. Lettera del Dottor Giacinto Namias ... al Dottor Domenico Thiene.

Du cholera-morbus, et des moyens de s'en préserver : ouvrage spécialement destiné aux gens du monde, et contenant tout ce qu'il est essentiel de connaître pour se soustraire à cette maladie / par Félix Rollet.

Cases of cholera collected at Paris : in the month of April, 1832, in the wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital La Pitié / by James Jackson, Jr.

Choleragift und Pettenkofer : als Beitrag zum heutigen Stand der Cholerafrage / von Fr. Osterlen.

The pathology and treatment of Asiatic cholera, so called / by A.L. Cox.