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Includes reports on smallpox and vaccination from: the Royal Jennerian Society (1807), Central Committee at Paris (1802), Cow-Pock Institution and Foundling Hospital (Dublin 1810), National Vaccine Establishment (London 1809, 1811, 1816, 1819), Delegazione Apostolica di Perugia (1842), Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmund von (?) Deschau (1805), the Analytical Physician (Boston) for February 1847 on consumption and can it be cured?, medicines prepared by Kelley & Son, how to prevent typhoid fever, leaflets on chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV, gentital warts, genital herpes, non-specific urethritis (NSU), Pasante Healthcare Ltd.'s condoms, Unicef on dehydration (2006).

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iv, 73 pages, 13 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 33 cm

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

xii, 82 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection / by William Rowley. To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox, explained by two coloured copper-plate engravings, as cow-pox mange, cow-pox ulcers, cow-pox evil or abscess, cow-pox mortification, &c., with the author's certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox, which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c.

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville.

The hand of Sarah Nelmes, who was infected with cowpox from her master's cows in May 1796, and from whom Jenner drew vaccine against smallpox

1 print : etching in sanguine, with watercolour ; platemark 27.2 x 21.4 cm

The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

iv, 73 pages, 13 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Patients are spoon-fed "opening mixture" as they come through the door. A boy standing next to Jenner is holding his pot labelled "vaccine pock hot from ye cow", on his jacket is a badge saying "Pancras" and in his pocket a paper entitled "Benefits of the vaccine process"

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.8 x 34.9 cm

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville.

The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

Letters on the kine pox : and a variety of other medical subjects / written by Dr. B. L. Oliver ... and Dr. William Currie.

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Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich August, Herzog zu Sachsen, Cleve, Berg, Engern und Westphalen u. : Chur-Fürst, u. u. ... / Johann Wilhelm Siegmund von Zeschau.

Information respecting the origin, progress, and efficacy of the kine pock inoculation : in effectually and forever securing a person from the small-pox, extracted from a treatise entitled "A prospect of exterminating the small-pox," written in the year 1802 / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville.

The hand of Sarah Nelmes with three cowpox pustules. Coloured etching by W. Cuff and W. Skelton after himself.

Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

Letters on the kine pox : and a variety of other medical subjects / written by Dr. B. L. Oliver ... and Dr. William Currie.

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