Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination. With index, distinguishing by an aserisk 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.
Date:
[1882?]
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    PREFACE. HE opposition to compulsory vaccination is based mainly upon two propositions. First, that vaccination, which was claimed by Jenner and his immediate followers to afford immunity from small-pox for life, does not afford immunity either for life, or for any portion of life, and secondly, that the operation is always attended with danger, and is sometimes fatal. The first proposition formed the subject of the tract issued by the LONDON Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination, entitled: Testivionies of Medical Men on the Protection Supposed to be Afforded by Vaccination^ from 1805 to 1881. These testimonies demonstrate that the failures of vaccination to protect were coincident with the introduction of the Jennerian rite, and it is no longer denied that numerous cases of small-pox were discovered amongst patients who had received virus from Jenner'.S own lancet. Mr. White has shewn in his Story of a Great Delusion, published in the pages of the Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review^'' the subterfuges which were resorted to for concealing, denying, and explaining away these oft-recurring examples of post-vaccinal small-pox, Jenner himself giving the mot d^ordre to his pro- fessional brethren to be slow in publishing such cases. The second proposition, that vaccination is the means of introducing serious disorders into the human system, is treated of in the follow- ing pages, which consist solely of evidence furnished by members of the profession. Some of these testimonies have been reluctantly tendered by believers in the protective efficacy of the operation. Others are avowals by heads of small-pox hospitals, medical A 2