A parade of wretched, smallpocked people walk away from a doctor who counts his money. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

The exploitative doctor may be a variolator who has been profiting through the use of this soon to be outmoded technique on unfortunate individuals; perhaps they are defecting to a vaccinator. However, 'inoculation' was also used to refer to vaccination in the early days of its use in France, hence this could be another simple anti-vaccination message from the Depeuille printing house