Human disease caused by infection with the Vaccinia virus

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocacy of it. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.

Jenner, An inquiry into the causes & effects

The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton.

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

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.

History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.

Cow pox : Copy of Mr. Lane's address to the inhabitants of Arundel, dated May 17, 1810 / Charles Lane.

iv, 73 pages, 13 leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 33 cm

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0009447: Watercolour drawing of the development of a cowpox lesion on a forearm

xii, 82 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 20 cm

Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c.

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

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Cowpox

Images from the collections

Images about Cowpox

Works from the collections

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

M0009447: Watercolour drawing of the development of a cowpox lesion on a forearm

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

Cowpox

Images from the collections

Images about Cowpox

Works from the collections

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

M0009447: Watercolour drawing of the development of a cowpox lesion on a forearm

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

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