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Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery
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| Caption | Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, 1801. The two prints shown are also in the Wellcome Library (catalogue numbers 16132i and 16139i) Tapp was the officer of health in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in the late 1790s; he was asked by the mayor to look into introducing vaccination into that part of the city, but instead launched an unrestrained attack on what he saw as "une pure charlatannerie" (François Colon, Histoire de l'inoculation et des progrès de la vaccine en France, Paris: Le Normont, 1801). Created 1801. Smallpox – Vaccination. Costume – France (- 18th century). Vaccination – Law and legislation. Public health personnel. Committees. Tapp (active 1800). François Colon (1764–1812). Comité central de vaccine. Work ID: y64xau82. |
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| Creator | see caption |
| Artwork medium | etching, with watercolour |
| Credit | Wellcome Collection |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) |
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