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Walker, John, 1759-1830

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  • An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocacy of it. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
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    London Vaccine Institution, for inoculating and supplying matter free of expense : patronized by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and Common Council, of the City of London, established in 1806, and supported by voluntary contributions.

    London Vaccine Institution. | Date: 1813
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    Specimen academicum inaugurale, sistens theses aliquot medicas ... pro gradu doctoratus ... in Academia Lugduno-Batava / [John Walker].

    Walker, John, 1759-1830 | Date: [1799]
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    On the necessity for contracting cavities between the venous trunks and the ventricles of the heart : on the use of venous sinuses in the head, on the wonderful provision made for the transition from the foetal to the breathing state, on palpitation, on death, and on life, with reflections on the treatment of animals / by John Walker.

    Walker, John, 1759-1830 | Date: 1799
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    The life of John Walker, M.D / By John Epps.

    Epps, John, 1805-1869. | Date: 1831
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    The vaccine scourge. (No. II.) Containing a new song, called The blacksmith's [i.e. John Walker's] progress, or, I and my partner Joe [Leaper]; sung at a certain Vaccine Institution in Salisbury Court [i.e. the London Vaccine Institution].

    | Date: 1809
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