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A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).

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Why, William Rowley? / [Charles Snyder].

<p>A print published as propaganda against the introduction of vaccination as a preventitive measure against smallpox. Smallpox was once a common epidemic disease that killed, blinded or disfigured its victims. In the 18th century its impact was reduced in Europe by a Chinese practice called variolation, the injection of smallpox fluid from an infected human being into a healthy human. Variolation became a popular practice in Great Britain. In 1798 Edward Jenner (1749-1823) proposed a modification of variolation called vaccination, which involved the injection of fluid from an infected cow into human beings. The introduction of the cow into human medicine seemed irrational and surprising, and was one of the points made against vaccination by its opponents. Some of the opponents of vaccination are named on the obelisk shown on the right of the print: the topmost name is that of Dr Benjamin Moseley, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. On the left the vaccinators, sporting bull's horns, feed babies to the Vaccination monster, which has the forefeet of a lion and the hindfeet of a cow</p>

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Truth vindicated; or, the specific differences of mental diseases ascertained / [William Rowley].

Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection ... To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox ... With the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox. Which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c / [William Rowley].

4 unnumbered pages, iv, 12, 159 pages ; (8vo)

A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley.

An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley].

xx, 98 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves ; (8vo)

A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley.

4 unnumbered leaves, xxiv, 80 pages ; (8vo)

A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs without rest, and ulcers of various parts, arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blood, etc / [William Rowley].

The most cogent reasons why astringent injections, caustic bougies, and violent salivations, should be banished for ever from practice: with the mildest methods of safely treating every species of venereal infection, strictures of the urethra etc., and correcting mischiefs arising from caustic bougies / By William Rowley.

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Rowley, William, 1742-1806

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A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley.

An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley].

A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley.

A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs without rest, and ulcers of various parts, arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blood, etc / [William Rowley].

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Rowley, William, 1742-1806

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A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley.

An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley].

A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley.

A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs without rest, and ulcers of various parts, arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blood, etc / [William Rowley].

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