Smallpox ephemera. Box 1.

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Description

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets, newspaper cuttings and pages from magazines, 1774-1955, 'Instructions for vaccine inoculation' (Edward Jenner, 1801), 'Directions for treating persons in the small pox' (Efford, printer, Chudleigh), 'Small-pox in the vaccinated and the unvaccinated' (N.S. Manning, BMJ 3 June 1893), Includes material about Edward Jenner, a list of publications of the Jenner Society (1899?) including one about the Gloucester and Middlesbrough smallpox epidemics), Dr. Skelton's refusal to have his child vaccinated, Ministry of Health "Important notice" about smallpox (1940s) stamped at Newhaven July 1948 and London Airport Health Control Unit (June 1948), UK vaccination certificate (1962) , 'International certificate of vaccination or revaccination against smallpox' (Form F.Med.101. Dept. of Health? June 1953), Royal Air Force certificate of inoculation (R.A.F. Form no. 3884, August 1951), Institution to Promote Cow-Pox Inoculation (Nottingham, 1805 : George Coldham).

Physical description

1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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