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Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.

The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.

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The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.

A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.