Cartoon, The Cow Pock
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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 peoples 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. Date: 1802
Media ID 14230257
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
1800s 1802 Apprehensive Bovine Comment Controversial Controversy Criticism Effects Features Gillray Harsh Health Inoculation Jenner Pancras Pearson Satire Satirical Shapes Smallpox Treatment Vaccination Vaccine Wonderful
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