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Posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 at 10:41 am.

Britt Ransom: Arise and Seek

Multigraph photographic portrait of Emma Ransom, the artist’s great-great grandmother.

Le charbon et la vaccination charbonneuse: d’après les travaux récents de M. Pasteur / par Ch. Chamberland (Anthrax and anthrax vaccination: according to the recent work of M. Pasteur, by Ch. Chamberland), 1883, courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain).
Syphilitic ulceration of the nose, ca. 1862-1875, Thomas Godart, collection of St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives & Museum, courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain).
Bleach Man poster copyright 1988 San Francisco AIDS Foundation, A 1988 BleachMan advertisement created by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Courtesy of UCSF Archives and Special Collections. BleachMan poster, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 1988, AIDS History Project Ephemera Collection, MSS 2000-31.
Wen Shen, or the Five Commissioners of Pestilence, who govern Heaven’s Ministry of Epidemics.
Cylinder seal and impression depicting Nergal, Mesopotamian God of death (especially death inflicted through war, plague, and pestilence), courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain).
Aztec manuscript painting of bodies dead of smallpox, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 16th century Mexico, Courtesy of Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies.
Smallpox pustule gauge, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1870-1930, collection of Science Museum, London, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection.
Image of the tongue during different stages of yellow fever, by Etienne Pariset, 1820. Courtesy of The Rubenstein Library’s History of Medicine Collections, Duke University.