Testimonies of medical men, on the protection supposed to be afforded by vaccination, from 1805 to 1881.

  • London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
Date:
[1881?]
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Credit: Testimonies of medical men, on the protection supposed to be afforded by vaccination, from 1805 to 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. RISDON BENNETT. Nobody maintains that Vaccination is an absolute protection after the expiration of a certain number of years, at;ainst the taking of small-pox.—Lancet, 7th August, 1880. Dr. CHARLES PIGEON, Fourchambault, (Nievre,) France. Every physician who has been engaged in an epidemic knows, that a rel.'itivcly large number of the vaccinated have been attacked ; and that the vaccine virus, instead of being a preserva- tive, actively assists the natural causes of small-pox, and tends to render the attack more dangerous.—Letter to the French Deputies, 1881. Dr. JULES GUERIN, Paris. A large number of medical men consider a general vaccination and rcvaccination to be in itself one of the causes of small-pox ; a crowd of the newly vaccinated to be itself a dangerous centre of infection ; and the 150,000 revaccinations in Paris during the siege to be in some degree responsible for the great epidemics of 1870-1.—Address before the French Academy of Medicine, 1881. Dr. CHARLES CAMERON, M.P. Since 1836 our statistics have been compiled so as to enable us to compare the mortality, not merely in small-pox occurring in all classes of vaccinated persons, at different periods, but in each separate class of vaccinated persons—in persons, that is, with one, two, three, or four good or indifferent marks. / hn^'e g07ie into these details, and found that not merely has the mortality in small- pox occurrins^ after vaccination progressively increased in the aggregate, but it has increased in each class of cases, and increased enorni07isly in the best vaccinated class of cases.—Letter to The Times, May 24th, 1881. Dr. eraser NICOLSON. Reports that he recently had charge of 43 cases of small-pox in Bromley Union, between April 25th and June 29th, of which 16 were confluent, 14 discrete, 13 modified ; two of the confluent cases died. All had been vaccinated, and three re-vaccinated.—Lancet, August 27th, 1881.