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Smallpox - Prevention

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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    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.

    Blair, William, 1766-1822. | Date: 1806
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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.

    Ring, John, 1752-1821. | Date: 1801-1803
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    An inquiry into the laws of epidemics; : with remarks on the plans lately proposed for exterminating the small-pox. / By Joseph Adams.

    Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818. | Date: 1809
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    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].

    La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774. | Date: 1773
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    Ospa i ospoprivivanīe / V.O. Guberta.

    Gubert, V. O. (Vladislav Osipovich), 1860- | Date: 1896
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