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  • Jean de Carro 1770-1857. One of the first to adopt vaccination and introduced the practice in parts of Central Europe.
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • Lancet used by E. Jenner. 2 have steel blades and 2 have ivory blades - the latter were probably designed for vaccination.
  • A child with his mother receiving the oral polio vaccination: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • A group of physicians stand by a cow that has died while 'aborting' a man; perhaps representing the potential effect of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Vaccinae 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 ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae 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 ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae 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 ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Cowpox: areas of affected skin on the face and thumb of a patient, showing the development of the disease (possibly after vaccination?). Colour lithograph, ca. 1880.
  • The cottage in which Edward Jenner first tried vaccination; foreground: trees, pond with ducks, bridge and path with man and child walking. Watercolour by F. Pick, 1865.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • A bill for ensuring the benefit of vaccination to such poor persons as are desirous thereof : ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 16 June 1815.
  • A bill for ensuring the benefit of vaccination to such poor persons as are desirous thereof : ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 16 June 1815.
  • A bill for ensuring the benefit of vaccination to such poor persons as are desirous thereof : ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 16 June 1815.
  • A nurse administering an oral vaccination to a baby in a doctor's clinic: immunization in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Jam'iyyar Matan Arewa Resource & Training Center, ca. 1995.
  • A mother holding her newborn baby, with a serious expresssion as she realizes its vulnerability to deadly infectious diseases; with a bottle of vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, advertising vaccination against those diseases. Colour process print by Sadolin, 195-.
  • Love safely ... wear a condom. 2, Don't wait, vaccinate : Hep B. is a major threat to gay men's health : free vaccination is available at any GUM clinic / Health First ; Tony May photographer.
  • Love safely ... wear a condom. 2, Don't wait, vaccinate : Hep B. is a major threat to gay men's health : free vaccination is available at any GUM clinic / Health First ; Tony May photographer.
  • Two women kissing; promoting the protection of vaccination against the risk of Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B as a result of intimate body contact. Colour lithograph by SmithKline Beecham, ca. 2000.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A parade of health professionals bearing vaccination syringes, drugs and banners, lined on each side by their victims' graves and topped by the grim reaper, presenting a satirical view of the medical profession. Reproduction of an engraving by Walter Harrison Cady, 1910/1930.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.