Smallpox: its consequences (death, disfigurement, blindness) and prevention through vaccination. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1951.

Smallpox : Vaccination and re-vaccination are necessary for prevention : Infants should be vaccinated as soon as possible after birth : consult your doctor now : indigent persons will be vaccinated free of charge by the Public Health Department.

Lecture: Does vaccination prevent smallpox?

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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

Bleeding healthy

Smallpox and after : an early history of the treatment and prevention of infections / Jack Botting.

The ethics of prevention : German philosophers of the late Enlightenment on the morality of Smallpox inoculation / Andreas-Holger Maehle.

Smallpox and vaccination historically and medically considered : an inquiry into the causes of the recent increase of smallpox, and the means for its prevention / by Alfred Collinson.

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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

Bleeding healthy

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Smallpox: its consequences (death, disfigurement, blindness) and prevention through vaccination. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1951.

Smallpox and after : an early history of the treatment and prevention of infections / Jack Botting.

The ethics of prevention : German philosophers of the late Enlightenment on the morality of Smallpox inoculation / Andreas-Holger Maehle.

Smallpox and vaccination historically and medically considered : an inquiry into the causes of the recent increase of smallpox, and the means for its prevention / by Alfred Collinson.

Smallpox : Vaccination and re-vaccination are necessary for prevention : Infants should be vaccinated as soon as possible after birth : consult your doctor now : indigent persons will be vaccinated free of charge by the Public Health Department.

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Stories

Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

Bleeding healthy

Images

Catalogue

Smallpox: its consequences (death, disfigurement, blindness) and prevention through vaccination. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1951.

Smallpox and after : an early history of the treatment and prevention of infections / Jack Botting.

The ethics of prevention : German philosophers of the late Enlightenment on the morality of Smallpox inoculation / Andreas-Holger Maehle.

Smallpox and vaccination historically and medically considered : an inquiry into the causes of the recent increase of smallpox, and the means for its prevention / by Alfred Collinson.

Smallpox : Vaccination and re-vaccination are necessary for prevention : Infants should be vaccinated as soon as possible after birth : consult your doctor now : indigent persons will be vaccinated free of charge by the Public Health Department.