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Smallpox - Hospitals

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Images about Smallpox - Hospitals

10 images from works
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex. Coloured engraving.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex. Line engraving.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A parade of wretched, smallpocked people walk away from a doctor who counts his money. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the Hempsted isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex. Line engraving by C. Simms after S.W. Daukes, 1848.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex: design drawing. Wood engraving by Laing, 1849, after S.A. Matthews.

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    Report laid before the general court of governors of the Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital, King's Cross, London, held on the 6th of February 1846.

    Gregory, George, 1790-1853. | Date: 1846
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    The Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex. Line engraving by C. Simms after S.W. Daukes, 1848.

    Simms, Charles. | Reference: 18065i
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    Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the Hempsted isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

    H.C.F., of Gloucester, fl. between 1896 and 1901. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 591179i
    Part of: Negatives of the Gloucester smallpox epidemic
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    The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

    | Date: [c. 1800] | Reference: 16140i
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    Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: a ward in the isolation hospital. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

    H.C.F., of Gloucester, fl. between 1896 and 1901. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 591177i
    Part of: Negatives of the Gloucester smallpox epidemic

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Public institutions
Hospitals
Highgate (Middlesex, England)
Smallpox
Vaccination
Gloucester
Patients

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