SMALLPOX VACCINATION
(i) JURIN, James (1684-1750). An Account of the success of Inoculating the Small Pox [for 1721-23] in Great Britain. With a comparison between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small-pox, London: for J. Peele, 1724, 8° (? lacking half title, title and preliminaries severely dampstained, title perforation and other library markings, second leaf of dedication torn at upper margin, larger clean tear to final leaf), modern mottled boards. [Blake p. 239; Wellcome III, p. 373]

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(i) JURIN, James (1684-1750). An Account of the success of Inoculating the Small Pox [for 1721-23] in Great Britain. With a comparison between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small-pox, London: for J. Peele, 1724, 8° (? lacking half title, title and preliminaries severely dampstained, title perforation and other library markings, second leaf of dedication torn at upper margin, larger clean tear to final leaf), modern mottled boards. [Blake p. 239; Wellcome III, p. 373]
(ii) KIRKPATRICK, James (d. 1770). The Analysis of Inoculation, London: J Buckland and R. Griffiths, 1761, 8° in 4's, second edition (crude repair to front inner hinges affecting title page and effacing several characters on title, stamp on title verso and accession no. at head of Dedication), contemporary calf (crudely rebacked). [Blake p. 243; Wellcome III, p. 398] Provenance: D. Yeats (19th-century book label)
(iii) An Address of the Royal Jennerian Society ... with the plan, regulations, and instructions for vaccine inoculation ..., London: W. Phillips [etc.], 1803, 8°, 2 folding letterpress tables (one stamped on verso, title slightly creased and bearing large stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons, final leaves slightly soiled and creased at corners), modern grey boards. Provenance: JCL (Michael A. Lane Memorial)
(iv) RING, John (1752-1821). An Answer to Dr. Moseley containing a Defence of Vaccination, London: J. Murray, 1805, 8° in 4's (title with large perforation and cancellation stamp on verso, accession stamp at head of Preface), modern cloth-backed boards. Provenance: Boston Athenaeum (stamp on title)
(v) BUIST, John Brown (1846-1915). Vaccina and Variola; A study of their life history, London: J. & A. Churchill, 1887, 24 chromolithographed plates (some scoring and marginal annotations in pencil), original red cloth (spine a little worn, rear inner hinges split). Provenance: JCL (5)

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