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Images from the collections

Images about Cowpox

11 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • Jenner, An inquiry into the causes & effects
  • 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.

Works from the collections

58 works

    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

    • Books
    • Online

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

    John Dix Fisher | Date: 1829
    • Ephemera

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

    Zeschau, Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von. | Date: 1805
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

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

    | Date: 15 April 1946 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/83/13
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806. | Date: 1805
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Related topics

Smallpox
Vaccination
Vaccinia
Smallpox, prevention & control
Costume
Cows
Golden calf (Bible)
St Pancras
Smallpox - Vaccination

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