
The cow-pock, or, The wonderful effects of the new inoculation! : vide - the publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society / Js. Gillray, del. & ft.
[London] : Pubd June 12th 1802, by H. Humphrey St James's Street, [1802]
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Print shows a scene in a vaccine institution; poor patients crowd in through a doorway on the left; in the room are those whose treatment has had dire consequences. A comely and frightened young woman sits in an armchair in the center, Dr. Jenner holds her right arm and gashes it with his knife, while a deformed and ragged boy holds up a bucket of 'Vaccine Pock hot from ye Cow'. A charity-schoolboy's oval badge on his sleeve is inscribed 'St Pancras'; from his coat pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Benefits of the Vaccine Process'. From various other patients miniature cows sprout or leap. A pregnant woman (right) stands in profile to the right, a cow issues from her mouth, another from below her ragged petticoat. A man dressed as a butcher registers despair at the horns which sprout from his forehead. A labourer with a pitchfork sees a cow bursting from a swelling on his arm while another breaks through his breeches; cows struggle through huge swellings on nose, ear, and cheek. The doctor's medicine-chest stands on the left, with bottles, a syringe, &c, and a tub of 'Opening Mixture' which haughty assistant ladles contemptuously into the mouths of the patients as they crowd into the room. On the wall is a picture of a crowd worshipping the statue of the golden calf.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.