Robert D. Hicks, PhD, Director, Mütter Museum/Historical Medical Library, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, contributes today’s blog post. In preparation for an exhibit on Civil War Medicine at the Mütter Museum in 2012, Dr. Hicks has been researching, among other topics, the occurrence of spurious vaccination in the Civil War.
On Monday, May 17, staff from the History of Vaccines project traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend “New Promise in the Search for HIV, TB and Malaria Vaccines,” a joint briefing held on the 30th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
Please visit the set of historical photographs on smallpox vaccination on The College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Flickr page.
A major difficulty with large vaccination campaigns is storage and transport of vaccine material.
An online project from The College of Physicians of Philadelphia