“a small addition to your Americana.” It was then given by Osler to Joseph Hersey Pratt in 1905 who intended to give it to the Osler Library at McGill University in 1930 but then also presented it to Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft of Boston, in 1943, before its donation to the Boston Medical Library.]]> An attempt to investigate some obscure and undecided doctrines in relation to small-pox, varioloid and vaccination, showing bookplates and inscriptions]]> Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-pox : at a very numerous and highly respected meeting held at the London tavern, on Wednesday the 19th day of January, 1803, to consider of the best means to be adopted for the extermination of the small-pox, the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor in the Chair. The following address was read and approved, viz. Address to the public ... ]]> A colleague and friend of Harvard's Benjamin Waterhouse, Sylvanus Fansher (1770-1846) successfully vaccinated over 35,000 individuals in New England, New York, and New Jersey before 1816. This register, maintained by the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, records the names and dates of over 5,300 smallpox vaccinations by Fansher, along with physician John Mackie (1780-1833), between 1810 and 1816.

The Providence register along with the Royal Jennerian Society broadside, are some of the recent additions to the extensive collection of books and manuscripts related to smallpox vaccination in the library collections.

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Vaccinae Vindicia]]> Harper's Weekly encouraging parents to vaccinate their children against smallpox]]> "Dr. Jenner has been to me what the sun is to the moon... Dr. Jenner has just sent me a present I highly prize, a silver box inlaid with gold of exquisite taste and workmanship, bearing the inscription, 'Edward Jenner to Benjamin Waterhouse.' But Mr. [John] Ring annexed the superscription in rather a hyperbolic style, 'From the Jenner of the Old World to the Jenner of the New World.'"]]> The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation (London : printed by D. N. Shury, 1801). The Origin was Edward Jenner's attempt to prove his claim to the priority of cowpox inoculation. He concludes the treatise with the words "An hundred thousand persons, upon the smallest computation, have been inoculated in these realms. The numbers who have partaken of its benefits throughout Europe and other parts of the Globe are incalculable: and it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the Small Pox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice."]]> The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation by Edward Jenner]]> to the Harvard Medical Library, 1941,
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]]> 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.]]> An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae]]> Benjamin Waterhouse contributed this statement on his work to the publication.

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“adopting that easy substitute afforded them by Divine Goodness”—and vaccinate the poor without charge.]]> In the footnote on page 16, Waterhouse describes the procedure he has developed for vaccination.

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A Prospect of Exterminating the Small Pox, Part II, describing the procedure for vaccination]]>
In this letter, addressed to Massachusetts Congressman Edward Everett (1794-1865), Waterhouse outlines his experience with vaccination and concludes with this: "Whereas you have a very expensive dept. for destroying human life, would it not be for the honour of the New World to have a little national establishment for the preservation of human life; more especially as the devouring monster, small pox, has a lready destroyed many millions (some say 40) more lives than there are people now on the face of the earth."

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A Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox; Being the History of the Variolæ Vaccinæ, or Kine-Pox by Benjamin Waterhouse]]>
"which was done to convince the faithless, and silence the mischievous."]]> Medical Repository, volume 2, number 2, 1798]]> ]]> The title-page of this copy of An Inquiry bears a presentation inscription by Edward Jenner to the Reverend John Clinch.

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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae]]>