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. 2007 May-Jun;122(3):398-406.
doi: 10.1177/003335490712200314.

Public health, culture, and colonial medicine: smallpox and variolation in Palestine during the British Mandate

Nadav Davidovitch  1 , Zalman Greenberg
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Public health, culture, and colonial medicine: smallpox and variolation in Palestine during the British Mandate

Nadav Davidovitch et al. Public Health Rep. 2007 May-Jun.
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Shaheen inoculating a child. Attached to the original photograph is a thorn that was used for the inoculation. This photograph and the other three presented in this article are part of a collection found at the Israeli Central Laboratories. It can also be found at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine contained in an album of photographs (photograph #7) documenting the Duwaimeh outbreak. Lettering in the front of the album: “Anti-smallpox campaign, Dawaimeh—Hebron. January—February 1922”. There is also a typed note stating that the album was presented by Dr. Reginald Sibley.
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Public health officer getting a child out of a corn-stone. Photograph from the Israeli Central Laboratories collection.
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Child with smallpox. Photograph acquired from the Israeli Central Laboratories collection.
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House-to-house inspection. Photograph from the Israeli Central Laboratories collection.
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