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Lot 7

ANTI-VACCINE SATIRE
GILLRAY, JAMES. 1756-1815.
The Cow-pock Mark, or, the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! London: H. Humphrey, June 12, 1802.

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ANTI-VACCINE SATIRE

GILLRAY, JAMES. 1756-1815. The Cow-pock Mark, or, the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! London: H. Humphrey, June 12, 1802.
Hand-colored engraved print on paper, 257 x 350 mm, titled at the bottom edge and attributed to "the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society," with Gillray's signature in the plate. Light toning, trimmed near plate line, tipped to a paper backing board at one edge.

A satire published in response to Edward Jenner's ground-breaking work An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, which outlined his discovery that inoculation with cowpox led to immunity to smallpox. That discovery would lead to the prevention of a disease that killed hundreds of thousands every year, and eventually the eradication of smallpox. Nevertheless, then — as now — there were many who found the idea of vaccination invasive rather than a welcome lifesaving discovery.

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