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<p>Includes reports on smallpox and vaccination from: the Royal Jennerian Society (1807), Central Committee at Paris (1802), Cow-Pock Institution and Foundling Hospital (Dublin 1810), National Vaccine Establishment (London 1809, 1811, 1816, 1819), Delegazione Apostolica di Perugia (1842), Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmund von (?) Deschau (1805),  the Analytical Physician (Boston) for February 1847 on consumption and can it be cured?, medicines prepared by Kelley & Son, how to prevent typhoid fever, leaflets on chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV, gentital warts, genital herpes, non-specific urethritis (NSU), Pasante Healthcare Ltd.'s condoms, Unicef on dehydration (2006).</p>

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Report of the Board of Directors, 1st October, 1807 / Royal Jennerian Society for the extermination of the small pox, Salisbury Square.

63 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, color plate : frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)

Royal Jennerian Society ... Its organization, address to the public, plan and regulations, biographical memoir of Dr. Jenner, and history of the institution. To which are added, lists of the life-governors and annual subscribers.

<p>Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves about vaccination against smallpox. Includes items urging people to be vaccinated: Francis T. Bond of Gloucestershire Combined District, Frederick, Duke of York, John Hill and A. Highmore (smallpox and innoculation hospitals, 1807), Royal College of Surgeons in London (1822), J. Fred May (Macclesfield Union). There are vaccination certificates (1817 and 1966), sections from a poem (Good tidings, ca.1804) by Robert Bloomfield describing a boy blind from smallpox, stickers for vaccination cold storage (Don't turn me off, DoH, 2010), letter certifying vaccination of Frederick George Judd prior to his becoming a student (James Buchanan, Watford, 1904), Report of the College of Health (Euston Road, London, 1862) promoting James Morison's Universal Vegetable Pills and the Hygeian or Morisonian system of health, "Vaccinations-Attest" (1824, possibly Glückstadt, Germany), 'Anxious about the next vaccination' (Emla anaesthetic cream to eliminate needle in jection pain : Astra Zeneca, 2009).</p>

Vaccination ephemera. Box 3.

Medical Heritage Library

The vaccine contest, or, Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society / by William Blair.

iv, xxvii, 472 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations, tables ; 22 cm

Vaccinæ vindicia; or, defence of vaccination : containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination, [&c] / By Robert John Thornton.

Edward Jenner M.D. (1749-1823)

Organisations making use of Jenner's vaccination discoveries

Charles Murray (d.1847), the National Vaccine Establishment and the Royal Jennerian Society

The vaccine contest ... being an exact outline of the arguments ... adduced by ... both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject / by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society.

[Circular letter to supporters of John Walker's London Vaccine Institution, emphasising the Society's disapproval of Walker and his activities. Begins] At a special Board of Directors of the Royal Jennerian Society, 23rd of March 1808.

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Royal Jennerian Society

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Report of the Board of Directors, 1st October, 1807 / Royal Jennerian Society for the extermination of the small pox, Salisbury Square.

Royal Jennerian Society ... Its organization, address to the public, plan and regulations, biographical memoir of Dr. Jenner, and history of the institution. To which are added, lists of the life-governors and annual subscribers.

Vaccination ephemera. Box 3.

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Royal Jennerian Society

Works

Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Report of the Board of Directors, 1st October, 1807 / Royal Jennerian Society for the extermination of the small pox, Salisbury Square.

Royal Jennerian Society ... Its organization, address to the public, plan and regulations, biographical memoir of Dr. Jenner, and history of the institution. To which are added, lists of the life-governors and annual subscribers.

Vaccination ephemera. Box 3.

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