Gallery
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Holbein's Dance of death exhibited in elegant engravings on wood.
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Medical Botany.
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We who are appointed the physicians for the prevention and cure …
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Remedies against the infection of the plague.
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A poet loses his family to the plague.
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A wheel charm for protection.
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Grana angelica
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It having pleased the Lord to visit our brethren and neighbours …
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Page from Carmina Gadelica: Tinneas an Righ - King's Evil.
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James Hattrick, Dealer in Herbs
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An advertisement from the Society of Chymical Physitians.
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'Heir beginnis the hystory and chroniklis of Scotland.'
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Proclamation for public fast.
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'Forsameikle, as the provost, bailies, and council of this Burgh...'
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Scotichronicon.
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Act discharging the vending of any goods brought from England.
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A compendium of healing plants.
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Saint Roch, the 14th-century patron saint of plague victims.
Gallery
The impact of plague outbreaks and other infectious diseases on society was devastating. This gallery contains items from the Library's collections that show how governments and people at the time tried to cope with these outbreaks through official and personal papers, religious writings, literature, press reactions and responses from folk medicine and the sciences.