08 janeiro 2015

skunkbear: A cow head will not erupt from your body if you get...









skunkbear:



A cow head will not erupt from your body if you get a smallpox vaccine.


But fear of inoculation was so wide-spread that British satirist James Gillray published this cartoon in 1802. The captions reads “The Cow Pock, or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation- the Publication of the Anti Vaccine Society.”


More about the history of smallpox and its eradication here.



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