Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination.

  • Millican, Kenneth William.
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[1907]
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    its injustice to the individual, than the vicari- ous protection it affords to others who, if vac- cination is the prophylactic it is asserted to be, can protect themselves and theirs by being vaccinated themselves, without forcibly vac- cinating others who object to be vaccinated. Such a question is a matter for argument, not for demonstration. . But when it comes to a question of what vaccination has done or can do, and what was done by those who introduced vaccination, - and is being done by those who practise it to- day as a prophylactic measure, this is a ques- tion of facts not views, and its solution is a matter for demonstration, not argument. Mr. Hubbard has essayed to give us a pic- ture of how the vaccination doctrine and prac- tice originated and how it is maintained. And from his conception of how this happened, he attempts to argue against the value of vacci- nation as a prophylactic. Now in one part of his article, Mr. Hubbard says: -“The degree of M. D., is given on the pupil’s proficiency in memorizing things told him by lecturers and printed in books. These lecturers get their knowledge from books and the men who wrote the books got their infor- mation from lecturers and books.” We shall have more to say by and by on this proposition as regards present day medical education; meanwhile we wish to point out that Mr. Hubbard, equally with ourselves and the authorities we shall quote, was not pre- sent at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, around which
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