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![become so immediately the symptoms declare themselves. It has been thought that if the lymph was used unmixed with blood then there was no chance of conveying syphilis but this is an error. ”( Theory and Practice of Vaccination, pp 69 70. Bailliere Tindal <N Cox). [Note :—With the object of demonstrating in his own person the improbability of syphilis ever being transmitted by vaccination, when proper precautions were taken in the operation, it is believed that Dr. Cory so vaccinated himself several times without apparent effect; eventually, however, he seems to have hastened his own death thereby.—(See MacVail’s “ Vaccination Vindicated ” pp 132-133). “ There can be little doubt that Dr. Cory’s death was indirectly brought about by his zeal in the best interest of vaccination.”—(Supplement to the 2gth Annual Report of the Local Government Board).] Drs. Bristowe and Humphry, and Mr. Hutchinson :— “ It is conclusively proved by Dr. Cory’s ex- periments that it is possible for syphilis to be communicated in vaccination from a vaccine vesicle on a syphilitic person notwithstanding that the operation be performed with the utmost care to avoid the admixture of blood.”—( Vaccn. Inquirer, July, igoi, p 62). Dr. Charles Cameron :— “ The recurrence, therefore, in the latest period of a mortality almost as high as that experienced prior to the Vaccination Act, shows that the protective virtues of vaccination are mythical, or that there is something radically wrong in our national system of vaccination.”—(Waterbury Anti Vaccn).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24975953_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
