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| Keywords: The cow pock.jpg Assessments 1 The Cow Pock The Cow-Pock ”or ”the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation ”vide the Publications of y<sup>e</sup> Anti-Vaccine Society Print color engraving published June 12 1802 by H Humphrey St James's Street In this cartoon the British satirist James Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St Pancras showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women and cows emerging from different parts of people's bodies The cartoon was inspired by the controversy over inoculating against the dreaded disease smallpox Opponents of vaccination had depicted cases of vaccinees developing bovine features and this is picked up and exagerated by Gillray Although the central figure is often assumed to be Edward Jenner circumstantial evidence suggests this may not be so Although the director of the Smallpox Hospital William Woodville had originally supported Jenner he and his colleague George Pearson were in dispute with Jenner by the time the caricature was published It is unlikely they would have met Jenner and it has been suggested that the central figure represents Pearson Gillray often included clues to identify individuals who were not easily recognizable but the only clue here is the badge on the arm of the boy which identifies his connection with Woodville's hospital The boy holds a container labeled VACCINE POCK hot from y<sup>e</sup> COW and papers in the boy's pocket are labeled Benefits of the Vaccine The tub on the desk is labeled OPENING MIXTURE A bottle next to the tub is labeled VOMIT The painting on the wall depicts worshippers of the Golden Calf Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-3147 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03100/3g03147u tif archival TIFF version 4 MB converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2 4 5 image quality 88 1802 Creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g03147 PD-old-100 James Gillray Smallpox in art People being vaccinated 19th-century engravings Illness in art Edward Jenner 1802 engravings Caricatures Vaccination in art | ||||
