Portrait silhouette of William Woodville

Silhouette of William Woodville, facing to the right as viewed.

Plate 2 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “W. Woodville M.D.”

William Woodville was physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St Pancras and conducted the first large-scale vaccination trials. He was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.