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An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocacy of it. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.

Calf (cowpox) vaccine pustules: five stages from the fifth to the ninth day after vaccination. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1885.

A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).

Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie.

Appendix : Containing, The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February 1781 / by Benjamin Rush.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 5, Reels 81-97.

Geschichte der Pocken und der Impfung.

A letter in reply to the report of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, Edinburgh : with an appendix, containing a variety of interesting letters on the subject of vaccination, and including a correspondence with Dr. Duncan, Dr. Lee, and Mr. Bryce : from which also the public will be able to appreciate the authority of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, and to form a correct opinion of the whole subject / by Thomas Brown.

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Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie.

Appendix : Containing, The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February 1781 / by Benjamin Rush.

Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 5, Reels 81-97.

Geschichte der Pocken und der Impfung.