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  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • 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.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • 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 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(?).
  • The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.
  • Address of the Charity School, Aldergate Ward
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Proclamation on vaccination
  • Proclamation on vaccination
  • Proclamation on vaccination
  • Proclamation on vaccination
  • Royal College of Surgeons certificate - Smallpox
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: George Steel, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Kate Mills, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Benjamin Jesty. Oil painting by M.W. Sharp, 1805.
  • Benjamin Jesty. Oil painting by M.W. Sharp, 1805.
  • Benjamin Jesty. Oil painting by M.W. Sharp, 1805.
  • Benjamin Jesty. Oil painting by M.W. Sharp, 1805.
  • Benjamin Jesty. Oil painting by M.W. Sharp, 1805.