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Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

A comparison between cowpox and smallpox pustules from the 3rd to 20th day of each disease. Coloured etching by W. Skelton after W. Cuff, ca. 1800.

A treatise on the cow-pox; containing the history of vaccine inoculation, and an account of the various publications which have appeared on that subject. In Great Britain, and other parts of the world / by John Ring.

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

A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 4th and 5th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.

A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 10th and 11th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.

An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocacy of it. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.

A cow's udder with vaccinia pustules and human arms exhibiting both smallpox and cowpox pustules. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1811.

The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

De la vaccine et de ses effets.

A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 14th and 15th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.

Vaccinia and variola : a study of their history / by John B. Buist.

Substance of a correspondence between the directors of the Cow Pock Institution, Sackville-Street, Dublin, and their subscribers, or other general practitioners ...

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De la vaccine et de ses effets.

A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 14th and 15th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.

Vaccinia and variola : a study of their history / by John B. Buist.

A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 4th and 5th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.

Substance of a correspondence between the directors of the Cow Pock Institution, Sackville-Street, Dublin, and their subscribers, or other general practitioners ...