Government prosecutions for medical heresy : a verbatim report of the case, "Regina versus Tebb." Dedicated to the Board of St. Pancras Guardians, London, with an introduction and appendix of illustrative matter / [William Tebb].

  • William Tebb
Date:
1879
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Credit: Government prosecutions for medical heresy : a verbatim report of the case, "Regina versus Tebb." Dedicated to the Board of St. Pancras Guardians, London, with an introduction and appendix of illustrative matter / [William Tebb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER FROM WILLIAM HUME-ROTHERY. (From the Marylebone Mercury, January, 1879. j SiR,^—Mr. William Tebb, of 7 Albert Road, Regent’s Park, has been summoned for the twelfth time for non-vaccination. The Anti-Compulsory Vaccination Movement is labouring to teach the three following important lessons, as necessary for the suppression of such injustice and immorality:— I. That there should be no State-chartered doctors, their posi¬ tion being incompatible with civil and political liberty; but that there should be free trade in medicine, as in everything else of exchangeable value, medical men of all classes and denominations standing on equal ground before the law. II. That the one great and only legitimate function of Parlia¬ ment is to maintain equal freedom and equal justice for all citizens alike, and that whenever Parliament falls short of or transcends this plain line of duty, it necessarily does harm in place of good. By the light of this truth it may be seen that Parliament has no more right to enact a medical man than it has to enact a theo¬ logical creed. III. That Magistrates and other members of the Executive are morally and spiritually bound to administer none but just laws, i.e., laws fitted to maintain equal freedom and justice between one human being and any other, and that when they stood to adminis¬ ter any unjust law they are themselves violators of the law of justice, and ought to be publicly exposed and condemned as such. Any one to whose heart and intellect these lessons come home, must, if he be a sincere and earnest man, animated with a genuine public spirit, see that the Vaccination Acts are iniquitous in them¬ selves, and. have a demoralising effect upon those who obey them or enforce them. Such a man cannot fail to labour for the entire abolition of these Acts.—Yours truly, William Hume-Rothery, President of the N.A. C. V. League. Merton Lodge, Tivoli, Cheltenham. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. THE PERSECUTIONS OF 1878. In the year of grace 1575, Elizabeth, of glorious and virgin memory, being Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, two Dutchmen, Anabaptists, were burnt, “ with roaring and crying,” at Smithfield. In 1611, in the reign of King James I., at the sentence of John
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