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

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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    2(5 lieat that warps judgment and the exaggeration which helps no one. But in the cold atmosphere of science, I hold it to be proved that compulsory vaccination has been a complete fallacy in this •country : that so far as logic has enabled us to prove anything, it has proved that vaccination, in the absence of sanitation, is inoperative on mortality, and that in its presence it becomes a sheer superfluity.”— ■ (“ Vaccination Inquirer, Vol. 5, p. 192.) Dr. M. S. Bernard Roth, M.D., F.R.C.S. : — “ My eldest child, healthy, tliree-and-a-half years old, was vaccinated by human lymph in Brighton, by one of the surgeons of the Sussex County Hospital. A brawny phlegmonous inflammation of the whole upper arm occurred, and if excessive care had not been taken, I am sure much sloughing would have taken place. In a poor man’s house the child would probably have died.”—(Trans, ^‘^l^lakuna Vacc. Inq.,” Part 1, ]>. 20, Xo. 29 ) Dr. J. Goodman, M.D. :— “ If vaccination must be compulsory, it ought to be perfectly safe. But it is not, and therefore ought not to be compulsory.”—(Trans. Makuna Vacc. Inq., p. 21, No. 40). Dr. W. a. Guy, M.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. “I should have no doubt that the State is justified in making vaccination compulsory, if it could be shown that it rarely entails injurious or fatal con- sequences. If it can be clearly shown to do so, by persons not committed to agitation against it, I should then speak with hesitation, proportioned to the frequency of such cases.”—(In loc,p. 21, No. 41.) Dr. R. H. S. Carpenter, L.R.C.P. :— “ Recently I have become opposed to compulsory vaccination. I have lost confidence in its protective power. Two months or so since, erysipelas was com-