The results of vaccination, and the inequity and injustice of its enforcement. An address delivered at the Town Hall, Holborn, London, May 11th, 1887, and now published with notes and appendix / by William Tebb.

  • Tebb, William, 1830-1917.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The results of vaccination, and the inequity and injustice of its enforcement. An address delivered at the Town Hall, Holborn, London, May 11th, 1887, and now published with notes and appendix / by William Tebb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of health, public vaccinators, members of boards of guardians, and all who are concerned either in maintaining the practice of Vaccination or in administering the law. Our able and eloquent advocate, Mr. Alfred Milnes, has challenged the British Medical Association, and I may say the entire medical profession, twenty-six thousand strong, to produce a champion for public debate. But with a conscientious conviction of the weak- ness of their defences, and probably remembering the discomfiture of Mr. Ernest Hart, when confronted with Dr. Enoch Robinson and Dr. Haughton a few years ago, and the late Dr. W. B. Carpenter, at Steinway Hall in 1882, when opposed by Dr. Pearce and Dr. Collins, this learned body has ingeniously de- clined the encounter. Having thus conspicuously exhibited their valour, they are now at liberty, which they freely exercise, to attack and mis- represent the advocates of our cause in their one- sided medical journal, and disposing themselves under the shelter of this barricade in defence of their own establishment and endowment by the State, they, no doubt, account themselves a brave and indispensable contingent of a noble profession, but one, it must be confessed, in desperate fear of inquiry into the proofs of the Jennerian system. Some of you will remember that, in the debate on Supply last September, members of Parlia- ment on both sides of the House strongly urged upon the Government the appointment of