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.

A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.

Vaccination: pockmarked and blinded peasants in Russia who have suffered smallpox are contrasted with children and adult citizens who are vaccinated against it. Colour lithograph, 192-.

The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.

A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.

A concise view of all the most important facts which have hitherto appeared concerning the cow-pox / [Charles Rochemont Aikin].

Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.

Young women in the Ukraine teasing a boy who is pockmarked and blinded in one eye by smallpox. Colour lithograph by Sudimora, ca. 1929.

Vaccination against smallpox. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).

Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

xvi, 387 page, folded plate : frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)

The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes.

1 print : line engraving ; image 15.7 x 21.4 cm

Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

xiii, 233 pages, 8 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

A history of vaccines and anti-vaxxers : myth vs reality / Anthony C. Cartwright.

The vaccine contest, or, Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society / by William Blair.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 52.7 x 76.7 cm (kai ben [sheet format] 787 x 1092)

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

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Smallpox - Vaccination

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Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

A history of vaccines and anti-vaxxers : myth vs reality / Anthony C. Cartwright.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

Smallpox - Vaccination

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Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

A history of vaccines and anti-vaxxers : myth vs reality / Anthony C. Cartwright.

China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

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