Vaccination ephemera. Box 3.

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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves about vaccination against smallpox. Includes items urging people to be vaccinated: Francis T. Bond of Gloucestershire Combined District, Frederick, Duke of York, John Hill and A. Highmore (smallpox and innoculation hospitals, 1807), Royal College of Surgeons in London (1822), J. Fred May (Macclesfield Union). There are vaccination certificates (1817 and 1966), sections from a poem (Good tidings, ca.1804) by Robert Bloomfield describing a boy blind from smallpox, stickers for vaccination cold storage (Don't turn me off, DoH, 2010), letter certifying vaccination of Frederick George Judd prior to his becoming a student (James Buchanan, Watford, 1904), Report of the College of Health (Euston Road, London, 1862) promoting James Morison's Universal Vegetable Pills and the Hygeian or Morisonian system of health, "Vaccinations-Attest" (1824, possibly Glückstadt, Germany), 'Anxious about the next vaccination' (Emla anaesthetic cream to eliminate needle in jection pain : Astra Zeneca, 2009).

Physical description

1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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