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The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.

William Woodville. Aquatint silhouette.

Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.

William Woodville. Stipple engraving by L.(?) Perrot, 1803, after Antoine Ansiaux.

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

Medical botany, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended on the catalogues of the materia medica ... with ... their medicinal effects ... / [William Woodville].

The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes.

Reports of a series of inoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox; with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox. By William Woodville, M. D. Physician to the Small-Pox and Inoculation Hospitals.

Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London. In three volumes.

Medicinal plants : an illustrated guide to more than 180 herbal plants / George Graves ; foreword by A. Hollman.

The history of the inoculation of the small-pox, in Great Britain; ... By William Woodville, M.D. ... In two volumes. Vol.1.

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Woodville, William, 1752-1805

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Reports of a series of inoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox; with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox. By William Woodville, M. D. Physician to the Small-Pox and Inoculation Hospitals.

Medicinal plants : an illustrated guide to more than 180 herbal plants / George Graves ; foreword by A. Hollman.

The history of the inoculation of the small-pox, in Great Britain; ... By William Woodville, M.D. ... In two volumes. Vol.1.