“A Drunkard is a Swine”
midsixteenth century
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cornelis Anthonisz (1505-1553)
woodcut
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Author: Helen Buck
Inoculation and Marginalization: How Smallpox Was Eradicated in Western Europe
“The cow-pock – or – the wonderful effects of the new inoculation”
1802
London, England
James Gillray (1756-1815)
colored engraving, published by H. Humphrey
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