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Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Victim of elephantiasis. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Dermatitis on the back of a man's neck caused by chronic pellagra. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.

Parasites of the tropical diseases kala-azar and oriental sore. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1921.

A woman suffering from chronic pellagra with dermatitis on her hands and face. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.

A girl in the London Asylum suffering from chronic pellagra. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.

A woman suffering from chronic pellagra with dermatitis on her hands, neck and face. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.

Report of first expedition to South America, 1913.

Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour.

Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter, M.D.F.R.S. and physician to the army.

The cures of the diseased in forraine attempts of the English nation : London, 1598. Reproduced in facsimile / with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

Tropical diseases : a manual of the diseases of warm climates / by Sir Patrick Manson.

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Report of first expedition to South America, 1913.

Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour.

Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter, M.D.F.R.S. and physician to the army.

The cures of the diseased in forraine attempts of the English nation : London, 1598. Reproduced in facsimile / with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

Tropical diseases : a manual of the diseases of warm climates / by Sir Patrick Manson.