Vaccination: pockmarked and blinded peasants in Russia who have suffered smallpox are contrasted with children and adult citizens who are vaccinated against it. Colour lithograph, 192-.

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[between 1920 and 1929?]
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535995i
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Vaccination: pockmarked and blinded peasants in Russia who have suffered smallpox are contrasted with children and adult citizens who are vaccinated against it. Colour lithograph, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Above, in a circle, three wretched muzhiks--a woman, her husband and their son--carry their belongings along a muddy track: all are pockmarked with smallpox, she is blind, the husband is wild-eyed and in despair. Below, by contrast, clear-skinned, heroic and forward-looking Russians wait to be vaccinated by a doctor

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Moskva [Moscow] : Literat. Izdat. Ota, [between 1920 and 1929?] (Moskva [Moscow] : Khromolitographi︠︡ia M.C. Kal'manson)

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1 print : lithograph ; sheet approximately 102 x 71 cm

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Ot ospy mnogie umirai︠u︡t, mnogie slepnutsia. Vyzdorovevshie ostai︠u︡tsi︠a︡ ri︠a︡bymi. Uberech'si︠a︡ ot ospy legko, nuzhno delat' privivku neskol'ko raz v zhizni. R.S.F.S.R. Ispolnenie Dekreta ob Ospoprivivanii est' dolg kazhdogo grazhdanina respubliki. Privivaite ospu i povtori︠a︡ĭte privivku ne rezhe chem cherez 5 let. Narodnyĭ Komissari︠a︡t Zdravookhraneni︠︡ia Otdel Sanitarnogo Prosveshcheni︠︡ia. Translation of lettering: Many people die from smallpox, many go blind. Those who are cured remain pockmarked. Protecting yourself from smallpox is easy, but you must get inoculated a few times in your life. R.F.S.R. [Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic] The fulfilment of this decree about smallpox vaccination is an obligation of every citizen of the Republic. Get yourself vaccinated against smallpox and again within 5 years. People's [or National] Commissariat for Health Care, Department of Sanitary Education

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Wellcome Collection 535995i

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