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.

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[c. 1800]
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16140i
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Paris (Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux pilastres d'or) : Depeuille, [c. 1800]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 23.6 x 37.5 cm

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Les malheurs de la vaccine ... Lettering continues (from left to right): Rue de la petite Pologne. Excellent fonds de pharmacie à vendre. Maison d'inoculation propre à faire une manufacture à vendre. No. 28000

References note

Naomi Baumslag, Murderous medicine: Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and typhus, Westport, Conn., 2005, p. 132 (reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 16140i

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