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Vaccinating the Baby, 1890

Vaccinating the Baby shows a doctor visiting a modest country house occupied by two women and a baby. The doctor is prepared to vaccinate the baby, who is reported to be artist's child, while a cat sits pensive under a table and a milkmaid and a cow peer in the half opened door.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Man giving a vaccination to a baby in a woman's arms, beside another woman in a home.