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  • Chinese C19 woodcut: 'Cowpox inoculation'
  • Cowpox lesion on a cow's teat.
  • Manuscript by Jenner, 1796 on cowpox.
  • Ulcer on the wrist probably due to cowpox
  • Pseudo cowpox lesion on a cow's teat, with
  • Cowpox pustules from the sixth to the eighteenth days of the disease. Watercolour by W. Cuff, 1801.
  • The hand of Sarah Nelmes infected with the cowpox.
  • 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 hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.
  • A comparison between a cowpox and smallpox pustule on the eighth day of the disease. Watercolour by W. Cuff.
  • Calf (cowpox) vaccine pustules: five stages from the fifth to the ninth day after vaccination. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1885.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a young child, held by its mother, with a man behind taking cowpox from a cow. Chromolithograph.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 16th day of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • A cow's udder with vaccinia pustules and human arms exhibiting both smallpox and cowpox pustules. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1811.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 2nd and 3rd days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • 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.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 6th and 7th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 14th and 15th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 12th and 13th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • A comparison between smallpox and cowpox pustules on the 8th and 9th days of the disease. Chromolithograph, 1896, after G. Kirtland.
  • A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • 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.
  • The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton.
  • Cow pox : Copy of Mr. Lane's address to the inhabitants of Arundel, dated May 17, 1810 / Charles Lane.
  • History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.
  • An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocacy of it. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
  • An arm with a vaccine pustule. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after E. Pearce.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
  • 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.