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

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.

The house in Cheltenham where Jenner first practised vaccination. Engraving by W. Stevens.

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.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Kate Mills, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

A comparison between vaccinated (cowpox) and smallpox pustules from the 3rd to 20th day of the disease. Coloured etching by W. Skelton after W. Cuff.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: J.R. Evans, aged 10 years, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

Cowpox pustules from the sixth to the eighteenth days of the disease. Watercolour by W. Cuff, 1801.

Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mary Wicklin, aged 4 years, as a smallpox patient, a few days before her death. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

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

4 unnumbered pages, 96 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

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.

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

8 unnumbered pages, 35 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 28 cm (4to)

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

34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8vo (22 cm).

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.

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Smallpox

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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.

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