Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : British / [W.J. Furnival].

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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Credit: Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : British / [W.J. Furnival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IG Dr. E. ]\1eyre, B.A., Ph.D.:— “Five years ago, I put oil record my conviction that the introduction into the human system of an animal product—particularly that of an undeveloped, animal, such as a calf—involved the setting in motion of conditions that almost necessarily predisposed to cancerous growth ; that in fact, by such operation, inequality, disparity, disintegration, and destruction ensue, and cancer is engendered.”—{''Cancer—a result of Vaccination. V. I., 181-12-03.) It takes about 21 years to complete the growth of the human being, while the growth of a bull or cow^ is completed in about four or live years . The cells of which the flesh of the bull or cow or calf is built up grow so much more rapidly than those of which the flesh of a human being is composed, that to introduce any of the protoplasm, lymph, or blood taken from the body of a calf into the system of a human being is at once to provide the very con- ditions most favourable to the production anew of cancer, for as soon as this living protoplasm from the calf (which may be termed bovine or vaccine proto- plasm) is introduced into the system of a child or adult, the cells formed by it begin immediately in consequence of their own more rapid growth or multiplication than those formed of human proto- plasm, to starve and kill the laiter, and although the process at first be slow, and the result be long deferred, may (aye, must) at length cause a cancer.’ (Ihid.) Dr Thomas Skinner, Livp:rpool ;— Q. 20,766.—“ Will you give the Commission the particulars of the case ? ” Ans.—“A young lady, fifteen years of age, living at Grove Park, Liverpool, was revaccinated by me at her father’s request, during an outbreak of small-.pox in Liverpool, in 1865, as I had revaccinated all the girls