Smallpox -- Vaccination
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
"A comparative view of the effects on individuals and society" chart, Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-Pox, London, undated (after 1803)
Item
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,...
Dates:
undated (after 1803)
Benjamin Rush correspondence
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/096
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a reply by Benjamin Rush and twelve other Philadelphia physicians, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees,
John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William
Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis Ouviere, and Joseph Strong, to inquiry of Thomas
Mifflin on 1797 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Rush maintains yellow fever is identical with bilious
remitting fever of warm climates, discusses source of 1797 outbreak...
Dates:
1800, undated
David Lewis autograph letters
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/045
Scope and Contents
Letters describe David W. Lewis’s life and experiences as a medical student at Jefferson Medical College,
1845-1846, and his first private practice in Ebensburg, Pa., in 1846. Most of the content dwells on the difficulties
of Lewis’ separation from his fiancee, Maria; there is also a great deal of religious speculation. One letter, 11
Dec. 1845, mentions illness among the students, and another, [ca. 7 Jan. 1846], describes an outbreak of
smallpox in Philadelphia and a debate over vaccination as...
Dates:
1845 - 1846
Edward Jenner holograph letters to Charles Murray, Secretary to the National Vaccine Establishment
Collection
Identifier: 10a 142
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 17 letters from Edward Jenner to Charles Murray, the Secretary of the National Vaccine Establishment in England. The letters discuss ongoing efforts to gain support for vaccination against smallpox, affairs of the National Vaccine Establishment, and vaccination news, including notable remarks and publications on inoculation and vaccination. The letters also mention the Royal Jennerian Society, the London Vaccination Institute, and the French Vaccine Committee.
Dates:
1806-1817
Inoculation [for smallpox] advertisement
Collection
Identifier: MSS 476
Scope and Contents
This advertisement offers inoculation for smallpox by Stephen Samuel Hawley in Fiskdale, Massachusetts. It also notes that a Pest-House (i.e. a house to quarantine those infected with communicable diseases such as smallpox) will be opened.
Note: this is a later reprint of the 1801 advertisement.
Note: this is a later reprint of the 1801 advertisement.
Dates:
1801 February 7
John Andrews letter to Dr. James Hollingshead
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/334
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an autographed letter signed, 28 Mar. 1793, from Dr. John Andrews in Philadelphia, Pa. to Dr. James Hollingshead in Northhampton. Dr. Andrews was responding to Dr. Hollingshead’s request for smallpox vaccine. Dr. Andrews wrote the letter while training at the Philadelphia Almshouse (later Philadelphia General Hospital), and in the letter, he comments on the general character of the patients he treats. Dr. Andrews also lists those individuals graduating with him from...
Dates:
1793 March 28
Photostat negatives of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Rush
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 475
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains negative photostat copies of letters and other documents relating to Benjamin Rush and his practice in the Army. Letters of Benjamin Rush to George Washington are dated February 13, 1777, May 13, 1777, and August 30, 1777. There are also two memoranda dated December 23, 1777 with photocopy of letter of J. Norcum to Washington, criticizing Rush, dated December 29, 1777. Letters from George Washington to Benjamin Rush are dated May 16, 1777, September 4, 1777, and...
Dates:
1777-1778; 1801; 1803
Records of the Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission
Collection
Identifier: ZZ10d 1
Overview
The Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission was created in 1911 to investigate vaccination and the practice of compulsory vaccination in Pennsylvania. This collection includes meeting minutes, including reports presented by both proponents and opponents of vaccination in general, but especially against smallpox; interrogations; and discussions with a variety of documents. Reports and discussions address the history of vaccination and smallpox, their nature and their symptoms, include...
Dates:
1912-1913
Thomas Bond correspondence
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 418
Overview
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 member...
Dates:
1741; 1760; 1773; 1776
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