Smallpox

Scope and Contents This chart shows "a comparative view of the effects on individuals and society" by smallpox, inoculated smallpox, and inoculated cowpox (or smallpox vaccine). The chart details the general character and mortality of the diseases, as well as the danger; eruptions; confinement, loss of time, expense; requisite precautions; medical treatment; deformity; and subsequent diseases. Also included on the chart are illustrations highlighting the comparative outcomes of infection with smallpox,...

Scope and Contents This unbound scrapbook contains clippings, leaflets, typescript letters and reports, reprints, and other printed ephemera related to vaccination and the anti-vaccination movement. Material comes from a variety of anti-vaccination societies and leagues from across the country and internationally, including in Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Terre Haute, and Toronto. The National Anti-Vaccination League in London and the Anti-Vaccination Society of America are particularly well represented. Also...

Scope and Contents note Notes taken from lectures by William Darrach at the University of Pennsylvania by C. G. Strohecker, 1845-1846. Notes are on diseases, including influenza, yellow fever, dropsy, typhus fever, small pox, and various inflammations. The volume includes some color illustrations and a syllabus of Dr. Darrach's lectures. There are also a number of poems at the back of the volume.

Overview At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries issued special stamps. These stamps served to signal the government's commitment to fighting the virus, to highlight the work of scientists working on a vaccine, and to honor healthcare and other essential workers.

This small collection contains COVID-19 stamps from around the world, collected between March and April 2022.

Scope and Contents This informational notice from the Metropolitan Information Service argues the benefits of vaccination. It notes the decreased deaths from smallpox among American soldiers during the war and also cites numbers from American troops stationed in the Philippines during the smallpox epidemic in 1918-1919. The notice also compares cases in states with different laws regarding compulsory vaccination and addresses fears about the dangers of vaccination by explaining that careful administration reduces...