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Vaccines in history

Derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the words 'vaccine' and 'vaccination' were devised by the pioneering physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823), known as the "father of immunology".

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The MMR vaccine is a combined vaccine used to protect against measles, mumps and rubella. The vaccine was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1988 and meant that young children only had to endure one vaccination instead of three. The vaccine is given at 1…

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This vaccine was used to vaccinate soldiers against dysentery. The disease affects the small intestine, causing diarrhoea and vomiting, and is spread through contaminated food and water. The name of the Laboratoire de l'Armée, which made this vaccine,…

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Made by Burroughs, Wellcome & Co and the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, not much is known about the effectiveness of this vaccine. In 1986, leprosy vaccines were tested in Malawi, Africa, but further tests were needed. Today, the BCG va…

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The vaccine was used to protect people against cholera. Cholera is a water-borne disease affecting the small intestine, causing diarrhoea and vomiting. The name of the Laboratoire de Vaccination Antityphoïdique de l’Armée, which made this vaccine, transla…

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Vaccinostyles were pen nib-like points used for vaccination. The nibs were mounted on to a pen holder, dipped into the vaccine, sunk into the skin (to administer the vaccine) and thrown away after one use. Vaccinostyles were particularly popular in France…

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Calf lymph infected with smallpox was used to vaccinate people against the disease. Originally lymph was taken from the pustules of people already vaccinated. The use of this human lymph was banned in 1898 as it was feared other diseases such as syphilis …

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Ivory points were used to give smallpox vaccinations by rubbing, scratching or inserting the vaccine into the skin, using a lancet. These points were covered with calf lymph which carried the disease cowpox, a milder form of smallpox. An attack gives immu…

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Lettering: Apparatus required for the inoculation of antirabic vaccine: 1: iodine pad and bottle; 2: carbolic swabs; 3: vaccine in conical glass; 4: Collin's syringes; 5: method of storing the vaccine.

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Lettering: The cow-pock - or - the wonderful effects of the new inoculation! - Vide, the publications of ye anti-vaccine society. Js. Gillray, del & ft.; Caricature of Edward Jenner inoculating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. …

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The history of smallpox vaccination does not necessarily start with Edward Jenner’s (1749-1823) introduction of a cowpox vaccine in 1798. A procedure known as ‘variolation’ was devised in China about a thousand years ago and then spread westwards to Turke…

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A lecture (Does vaccination prevent smallpox?: a lesson taught from the Gloucester epidemic) delivered by Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907) before the London Vegetarian Society on May 28th, 1896, at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London.

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Doctors were sympathetic - but imperturbable . An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of anguish . x000D _x000D_1950s

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Lettering: The first step in the preparation of Alivisatos' vaccine. The weighed brain is placed on a square of mosquito netting, the four corners of which are caught up in a glass hook. It is then suspended in ether.; The Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, …

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Streptococci bacteria are responsible for a wide range of skin and throat diseases, including scarlet fever and tonsillitis. If the bacterium gets into the blood, more serious conditions develop. This immune serum contains antibodies from an animal infect…

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Lettering: Achetez le nouveau timbre antituberculeux. "Calmette sauveur des tout-petits". Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Éducation Physique. Comité National de Défense contre la Tuberculose. Calmette sauveur des touts-petits par le v…

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Vaccination: programme strategies This picture was taken in Zambia. Its shows a health worker giving an injection to a baby being held on its mother's lap. The mothers are carrying growth monitoring charts to record their children's health and dev…

Bavarian State Library

Nouvelle ed.; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Path. 60

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Lettering: Controle du titre bactérien du vaccin par l'appareil optique

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Lettering: La vaccine de la rage au Laboratoire de M. pasteur. Peint par Laurent Gsell ; F. Pirodon.

National Library of France

Bibliographical Reference: Rol, 45629; Part of the documentary ensemble: Pho20Rol

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave

Drie papieren wikkels met opschrift met daar in koepokstof, geklemd tussen twee glasplaatjes. Afmetingen genomen van de drie pakketjes samen.; Mfa 1860

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As part of the present anti-polio drive - aimed at the 15 to 26 years-old age group - the minister of health, Mr. Derek Walker-Smith, Q.C., today watched junior members of his staff received their first shots of vaccine. An L.C.C. medical team held a vacc…

Open Society Archives at Central European University

Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolut…

Deutsche Welle

The first clinical trials of an Ebola vaccine are starting at Oxford's Jenner Institute. Professor Adrian Hill says he hopes to have a reliable vaccine for the deadly virus by the end of the year.

Deutsche Fotothek

Reportage "Wohin mit dem Müll?". Impfstoff aus einer mit Tb-Bakterien versetzten Müllaufschwemmung wird an einer Laborratte getestet (sind die Bakterien abgestorben, gilt der Kompost als hygienisch einwandfrei); aus Kunststoff in schwarzweiß, qu…

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Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Electrolux kylskåp typ D i "Statsmedecinska Anstaltens Bakteriologiska Avdelning". Kylskåpet användes för förvaring av vaccin. Genom kontinuerlig drift erhålles i nedre avd. en temperatur av -2 grader Celsius. >> Kvinnan hämtar vaccin??

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Lettering: Le vaccin du croup (Hôpital Trousseau) A. Brouillet pinx. E. Buval lith.

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Hallam's Patent instanteneous vaccinator, introduced in 1874 and was made by the surgical instruments makers, Arnolds & Sons.