This colored plate appears in the first edition of Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolæ Vaccinæ and depicts the cowpox pustules on the hand of dairymaid Sarah Nelmes. Cowpox matter from these pustules was used to vaccinate the boy James Phipps in 1796. Colored plate showing cowpox pustules from Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae
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Gift of Dr. Michael Freebern Gavin to the Boston Medical Library, 1905
