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Luigi Marchelli, a Genoese surgeon, obtains from a sheep matter for inoculation against smallpox. Coloured etching, c. 1807.

A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.

Jan Ingenhousz. Etching by D. Cunego, 1769, after A.L.L.

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.

A treatise on the cow-pox : containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject, in Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

An inquiry into the laws of epidemics; : with remarks on the plans lately proposed for exterminating the small-pox. / By Joseph Adams.

Histoire de l'inoculation de la petite verole, ou recueil de mémoires, lettres, extraits et autres écrits, sur la petite vérole artificielle / [Charles-Marie de La Condamine].

Ospa i ospoprivivanīe / V.O. Guberta.

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Smallpox - Prevention

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A treatise on the cow-pox : containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject, in Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

An inquiry into the laws of epidemics; : with remarks on the plans lately proposed for exterminating the small-pox. / By Joseph Adams.

Histoire de l'inoculation de la petite verole, ou recueil de mémoires, lettres, extraits et autres écrits, sur la petite vérole artificielle / [Charles-Marie de La Condamine].

Ospa i ospoprivivanīe / V.O. Guberta.

Smallpox - Prevention

Images from the collections

Images about Smallpox - Prevention

Works from the collections

A treatise on the cow-pox : containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject, in Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

An inquiry into the laws of epidemics; : with remarks on the plans lately proposed for exterminating the small-pox. / By Joseph Adams.

Histoire de l'inoculation de la petite verole, ou recueil de mémoires, lettres, extraits et autres écrits, sur la petite vérole artificielle / [Charles-Marie de La Condamine].

Ospa i ospoprivivanīe / V.O. Guberta.

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