Illustration of the cow-poxed, ox-faced boy, an example of some proclaimed bovine side effects of the smallpox vaccine, as featured in Dr William Rowley's Cow-Pox Inoculation (1805).
Featured on PDR in the essay “The Mark of the Beast”: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. Introducing us to the original anti-vaxxers, Erica X Eisen explores the “vacca” in the first-ever vaccine: its bovine origins and the widespread worry that immunity came with beastly side effects.
Also appearing in the essay…
The Cow-Poxed, Ox-Faced Boy
Date
1805
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