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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Smallpox epidemic, Palestine. Photograph album, ca. 1922.

MS Japanese 63

Above, a bloodshot eye showing symptoms of haemorrhagic smallpox, below, an eruption of variola nigra on the abdomen of a patient. Colour lithograph after J.A. Philip, ca. 1900.

An arm with a vaccine pustule. Coloured etching by W. Skelton after himself.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Ethel Cromwell, aged about 14 years, as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Du traitement de la variole par la médication éthérée-opiacée / par Henri Bucquet.

Réflexions historiques et critiques sur les dangers de la variole naturelle : sur les différentes méthodes de traitement, sur les avantages de l'inoculation et les succès de la vaccine pour l'extinction de la variole / par M. Parfait.

Bihar, India: a child with smallpox, at Hakagora village. Photograph, 1974.

Plain directions in regard to the small-pox / by Browne Langrish, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods & Forests. / By John Marshall.

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Du traitement de la variole par la médication éthérée-opiacée / par Henri Bucquet.

Réflexions historiques et critiques sur les dangers de la variole naturelle : sur les différentes méthodes de traitement, sur les avantages de l'inoculation et les succès de la vaccine pour l'extinction de la variole / par M. Parfait.

Bihar, India: a child with smallpox, at Hakagora village. Photograph, 1974.

Plain directions in regard to the small-pox / by Browne Langrish, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Vaccination considered in relation to the public health : with inquiries and suggestions thereon. A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Morpeth, First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods & Forests. / By John Marshall.