Below you will find a small sampling of the many Medical Heritage Library resources pertaining to vaccination, including materials that reflect both pro- and anti-vaccination viewpoints. These sources, organized chronologically, trace the history of vaccination from the 18th century through the 1920s. Click on any resource to learn more and explore the full text!
Don’t see quite what you’re looking for? Try searching the Medical Heritage Library for yourself! Another excellent online resource is this interactive timeline of the history of vaccines, made by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
 J. Jurin, An account of the success of inoculating the small pox… (1724) |  E. Jenner, An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ... (1798) |  W. Fermor, Reflections on the cow-pox... (1800) |
 C. R. Aikin, A concise view of all the most important facts... concerning the cow-pox (1801) |  E. Jenner, “Instructions for vaccine inoculation” (1801) |  J. Birch, Serious reasons for uniformly objecting to the practice of vaccination (1806) |
 F. S. Stuart, £30,000 for the cow-pox!!! (1807) |  J. Conolly, An address to parents on the present state of vaccination in this country... (1822) |  H. Edmonston, Observations on cowpox and on the necessity of adopting legislative measures… (1828) |
 G. S. Gibbs, The evils of vaccination: with a protest against its legal enforcement (1856) |  Boston City Physician’s Office, “I transmit to you herewith a supply of fresh Vaccine Lymph…” (1859) |  J. Jones, Researches upon “spurious vaccination”… (1867) |
 E. A. Hart, The truth about vaccination (1880) |  E. Robinson, Can disease protect health? Being a reply to Mr. Ernest Hart's pamphlet (1880) |  A. von Rózsahegyi, Experiments on Pasteur's protective inoculation against anthrax in Hungary (1882) |
 J. Pickering, Which? Sanitation and sanatory remedies, or vaccination and the drug treatment? (1892) |  W. J. Simpson, Cholera in Calcutta in 1894 and anti-choleraic inoculation (1894) |  J. M. Peebles, Vaccination: a curse and a menace to personal liberty (1900) |
 S. M. Copeman, Modern methods of vaccination and their scientific basis (1903) |  W. S. Magill, Memoranda concerning vaccination in the prophylaxis of typhoid fever (1912) |  W. M. Haffkine, On prophylactic inoculation against plague and pneumonia (1914) |
 E. C. Rosenow, Prophylactic inoculation against respiratory infections... (1919) |  C. M. Higgins, Horrors of vaccination exposed and illustrated (1920) |  L. S. Dudgeon, Bacterial vaccines and their position in therapeutics (1927) |