Cartoon, The Cow Pock
Cartoon, The Cow Pock, or, the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! by James Gillray. Depicting a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital, St Pancras, London, with a cowpox vaccine being administered to an apprehensive woman, and cow shapes emerging from different parts of people's bodies. There was controversy over this new treatment being used against the dreaded smallpox, with fears that bovine features might result. The doctor depicted could represent either Edward Jenner or another medical man, George Pearson
Picture No
10956072
Media ID
48223601
Size
6165px x 4298px
(5.6MB)
Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873
Date
1802
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1802 Apprehensive Bovine Comment Controversial Controversy Cowpox Criticism Gillray Harsh Inoculation Jenner Pancras Pearson Pock Shapes Smallpox Vaccination Vaccine
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