Smallpox -- Vaccination
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
[Scrapbook of anti-vaccination clippings]
Collection
Identifier: MSS 477
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains clippings of articles, reports, letters to the editor, etc. related to and expressing opposition to vaccination, especially compulsory vaccination. Many reports are from Muncie, Terre Haute, and other parts of Indiana, but coverage also includes Brooklyn, Chicago, Milwaukee, and parts of England. The clippings focus on the arguments against vaccination, including letters to the editor and responses to letters signed by “Anti-Vaccination” or “Anti;” court...
Dates:
1887; 1892-1897
Syphilis not caused by vaccination
Collection
Identifier: MSS 480
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a three-page statement from the Surgeons General of the United States Army, Navy, and U.S. Public Health Serivce which declares that syphilis cannot be contracted from calf lymph smallpox vaccination. The statement goes on to list the number of vaccinated individuals and explains safety measures, including that the quality of vaccines is prescribed by the Pure Food and Drugs Law and that sales are controlled by regulations drawn up by a board composed of the...
Dates:
1927 February 15
Thomas Bond correspondence
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 418
Abstract
Thomas Bond was an American physician and surgeon. He was born May 2, 1713, in Calvert County, Maryland. In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. During the Revolutionary War, Bond helped to organize the medical department of the Continental Army. He established the first American field hospitals during the conflict. He was also a...
Dates:
1741; 1760; 1773; 1776
