Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.

  • London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
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[1882]
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Credit: Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TESTI Medical WITH INDEX, DISTINGUISHING BY AN ASTERISK SUCH AS TREAT OF ANIMAL (cow, HORSE, OR CALF) LYMPH, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ARM TO ARM VACCINATION. Dr. Baron, in his Life of Jenner, vol. j. page 243, says, “that matter from the pustules of the vaccinated she-as,s, affords the genuine cow-pox in man.” But the great John Hunter says, “The introduction by inoculation of mineral or vegetable poisons into the blood, is hazardous, and in certain quantities m.ay be dastructive; but the intro- duction 0/ animal products from another living body, be it a man, a cow, or even an ass, is infinitely 7norepernicious, because allied to it in being vitalised. The propagation of disease, on the pretext of thereby arresting di-sease, is bad in logic, t wicked in morals, and futile in practice. Then, again, the testimony of the neatest Y authority in the world ought to be allowed to silence nobody. Intelligent persons have as .< much title as they to respectful consideration. We have no prelacy in science. It is easy to deal in epithets, to call those insane who differ tvith us, but no gentleman, nor friend of truth and honorable dealing, does it. We waive the fact that the flagrant terms of this blackguard logic apply to such men as Prof. Newman, Prof. Ennemoser, John Hunter, and Alexander von Humboldt. He may as well throw his filth at them as at anybody else. It doc-s not prove that vaccine virus, being the product of animal decay, it is innocent to infuse it into healthy persons’ blood. Vaccination is but a charlatan device, bom of empiricism, and without a soimd leg to stand on. Well-educated pathologists know this. —Plew York Medical Tribune, 1881. :0: LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION, 114, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. :0: Price Three-Pence^ or Eighteen Shillings per Hundred.