Sanitation, not vaccination, the true protection against small-pox : a paper read before the second International Anti-Vaccination Congress at Cologne, October 12th 1881, (with appendix) / by William Tebb.

  • Tebb, William, 1830-1918.
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    SANITATION, NOT YACCINATION, THE TRUE PROTECTION AGAINST SMALL-POX.. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-VACCINATION CONGRESS AT COLOGNE, October 12th, 1881, (with Appendix,) By WILLIAM TEBB. To set men to listen is half the battle, and the hardest half, in all reforms. * Wendeu. Phillips. The true preventions of disca.se are pure blood and a healthy life. Dk. B. W. Richardson, T.'R.S., at the Briehton Health Congress, Dec, ISSI. In medicine it was well that imperfectly established doctrines should be from time to time tested by the light of more recently acquired hcli.-Lecture be/ore Umversity College by V)«. H. Chaki.ton Bastian, Sc/X. ^OM, 247S. Ce n'est pliLs le medecin qui pent et qui doit decider de cette question importante ; mais uniguement le bott sens. Thh important y»«<;<>« no longer can nor ought to be decided by the rfoc/or, but simply by soMftil common sense.—A, LuTZE, M.D., Cothen. The primary object to aim at is placing a healthy stock of men in conditions of air, water warmth, fuod, dwelling, and work most favourable to their development. 1 he vigour of their own life is the best security men have against the invasion ol their organization by low corpuscular forms of life—for such the propagating matters of zymotic diseases may be held to be.—Db. Farr in Registrar General's Report for 1807, p. 31J. The propagation of disease, on the pretext of thereby arresting disease, is bad in logic, wicked in morals, and futile in practice.—A^ew Vori Medical Tribune. 1881. LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION, 114, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., AND E. W. ALLEN, Ave Maria Lane, E.C. -.O: Price Two-Pence, or Ten Shillings per Hundred.